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    "id": "2013-12-23",
    "date": "2013-12-23",
    "display": "Dec 23, 2013",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The land/water split is created — twelve years early",
    "desc": "Instrument #1330941: on one day, Paseo Del Norte and Santa Teresa Land acquire the land while the Verde entities reserve easements over the wells in OSE file LRG-3150 — the land sold, the water kept. Section 3.1 already grants the landowner the right to relocate wells “to accommodate development or redevelopment.”",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments",
      "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The land/water structure the 2025 closing rebuilt was written twelve years earlier. The 2025 deeds did not invent it; they inherited it.",
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     "checkpoint": "revisit",
     "state": "locked"
    },
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     "PJO124",
     "PJO125",
     "PJO126"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2020-03-11",
    "date": "2020-03-11",
    "display": "Mar 11, 2020",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "NMPRC approves IIF's purchase of El Paso Electric",
    "desc": "The utility that now serves the region passes to a JPMorgan-tied fund, with an $8.7M ratepayer credit and an arm's-length condition.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Utility Dive — FERC dismisses JPMorgan concerns",
      "url": "https://www.utilitydive.com/news/el-paso-electric-acquisition-nears-final-approval-as-ferc-dismisses-concern/575244/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The utility that would have to serve a 2,462-megawatt load stopped answering to public shareholders here.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO38"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2020-07-29",
    "date": "2020-07-29",
    "display": "Jul 29, 2020",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "The $4.3B EPE buyout closes; the utility leaves the NYSE",
    "desc": "After 73 years on the public market, El Paso Electric goes private under the Infrastructure Investments Fund.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "El Paso Electric — sale completed, new CEO",
      "url": "https://www.epelectric.com/news/el-paso-electrics-43b-sale-to-jpmorgan-tied-fund-completed-new-ceo-named"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Ownership of the region's power moved behind a fund five years before the region was asked to power a data campus.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO38"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2023-12",
    "date": "2023-12",
    "display": "Dec 2023",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "CRRUA found bypassing three of four arsenic plants",
    "desc": "The utility that will supply the campus's drinking water was running most of its arsenic treatment offline — 58 deficiencies.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "CRRUA — NMED settlement",
      "url": "https://www.crrua.org/node/109"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The utility named to supply the campus's drinking water had already failed at the simpler job.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO14"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2024-03-01",
    "date": "2024-03-01",
    "display": "Mar 1, 2024",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "NMED penalizes CRRUA — $251,580 proposed",
    "desc": "The state opens formal enforcement on the arsenic failures.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "CRRUA — NMED settlement",
      "url": "https://www.crrua.org/node/109"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The state knew about the water utility's failures two years before the county promised it far more customers.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10",
     "PJO14"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-01-06",
    "date": "2025-01-06",
    "display": "Jan 6, 2025",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "The land goes under option — eight months before the vote",
    "desc": "A memorandum recorded three weeks later shows BorderPlex held an option on 400 acres of the Santa Teresa assembly from January 6 — before the February MOU, and long before the September bond vote.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments",
      "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The land was locked up eight months before the public vote that ratified it.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO4"
    ],
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
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    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-02-10",
    "date": "2025-02-10",
    "display": "Feb 10, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The HGEIC committee substitute for HB 93 is dated",
    "desc": "The grid-technology bill takes the form it will keep — before the microgrid section is added.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — HB 93 Fiscal Impact Report",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "This is what HB 93 said BEFORE the microgrid exemption was added — the baseline every later diff is measured against.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-02-17",
    "date": "2025-02-17",
    "display": "Feb 17, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "SB 418, Padilla's Qualified Microgrid bill, is introduced",
    "desc": "The standalone version of the microgrid carve-out — sole sponsor Sen. Michael Padilla.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "BillTrack50 — NM SB418",
      "url": "https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1835468"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The exemption first existed as its own bill with its own sponsor, which is what makes its later route significant.",
    "actors": [
     "PJP22",
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-02-22",
    "date": "2025-02-22",
    "display": "Feb 22, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "SB 418 dies — reported Do Pass, then postponed the same day",
    "desc": "The bill never gets a floor vote. Its substance does not disappear.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "BillTrack50 — NM SB418 history",
      "url": "https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1835468"
     }
    ],
    "why": "A bill that cannot survive its own committee is the clearest evidence its substance was not going to pass on the merits.",
    "actors": [
     "PJP22",
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-02-25",
    "date": "2025-02-25",
    "display": "Feb 25, 2025",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "The MOU is signed — 207 days before the public vote",
    "desc": "The governor's office and the developer sign a memorandum of understanding; NMSU signs a desalination agreement the same day.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "BorderPlex–NM MOU (Feb 25 2025)",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2.25.25.BorderPlexDigitalMOU.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The state committed to the project seven months before the public was asked to.",
    "node": "PJE1"
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   {
    "id": "2025-03-04",
    "date": "2025-03-04",
    "display": "Mar 4, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "HB 93 passes the House 52–8; HB 143 passes 36–26",
    "desc": "The grid bill and the lobbying-disclosure bill both clear the House on the same day.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — HB 93 Fiscal Impact Report",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The House voted on a bill that did not yet contain the exemption it is now known for.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-03-20",
    "date": "2025-03-20",
    "display": "Mar 20, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The amendment: Section 6 is added to HB 93; the Senate passes it 37–4",
    "desc": "Senate Floor Amendment 1 — “amendment sponsored by Senator Padilla” — inserts the self-sourced-power exemption. A floor substitute carrying it is adopted.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — Senate Floor Amendment 1 to HB 93",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/floor_amendments/SFL_1%20HB%2093%20232085.1.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "This is the moment the public-interest test was deleted. Everything downstream runs through it.",
    "node": "PJC78",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "public-interest",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-03-21",
    "date": "2025-03-21",
    "display": "Mar 21, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The House concurs — one day later",
    "desc": "The Fiscal Impact Report is updated with a synopsis of the amendment noting it “relates to Senate Bill 418.”",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — HB 93 Fiscal Impact Report",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The chamber that had passed a different bill got one day to notice what had been added to it.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-03-22",
    "date": "2025-03-22",
    "display": "Mar 22, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The session adjourns at noon",
    "desc": "Final passage of the amendment happened inside the last 48 hours before the Legislature went home.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — HB 93 Fiscal Impact Report",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "There was no time left in the session for anyone to object.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-04-08",
    "date": "2025-04-08",
    "display": "Apr 8, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "HB 93 is signed — Chapter 93",
    "desc": "The governor's release describes only the grid-technology provisions; no signing statement mentions Section 6.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — governor signs grid bill",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2025/04/09/gov-lujan-grisham-signs-electric-grid-solar-power-and-cannabis-enforcement-bills-into-law/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The exemption became law without a single public statement naming it.",
    "node": "PJE41",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "public-interest",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-04-11",
    "date": "2025-04-11",
    "display": "Apr 11, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The lobbying-disclosure bill is vetoed",
    "desc": "HB 143 — which would have exposed pre-introduction lobbying on bill development — is vetoed as “onerous.”",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Governor's office — 16 bills vetoed",
      "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/newsroom/release-governor-lujan-grisham-vetoes-16-bills-100001669"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The bill that would have revealed who shapes bills like this one died the same month.",
    "node": "PJE117"
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-07-01",
    "date": "2025-07-01",
    "display": "Jul 1, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "HB 93 takes effect",
    "desc": "The microgrid exemption becomes operative law.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — HB 93 Fiscal Impact Report",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "From here the exemption is not a proposal anyone can argue with. It is the law the permit stands on.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO52"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-08-15",
    "date": "2025-08-15",
    "display": "Aug 15, 2025",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure incorporates in Delaware",
    "desc": "The entity that will file the air permit — and, it later emerges, fund the campaign urging its approval — is formed eleven days before the county's inducement resolution.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments",
      "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The permit applicant and the sole funder of the campaign urging its approval are the same entity, formed here.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO66"
    ],
    "node": "PJE53"
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-08-26",
    "date": "2025-08-26",
    "display": "Aug 26, 2025",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The county adopts the IRB inducement resolution",
    "desc": "Doña Ana County sets the industrial-revenue-bond structure in motion.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The county started the bond clock twenty-four days before it voted on the bond.",
    "node": "PJE74"
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-09-18",
    "date": "2025-09-18",
    "display": "Sep 18, 2025",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "Oracle's New Mexico entity registers — the day before the vote",
    "desc": "“Green Chile Ventures” files as an alternate name of Oracle America Cloud Services LLC.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM SOS — business record #0008048891",
      "url": "https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/search/business"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The company created its New Mexico legal identity the day before the vote that handed it $165 billion in bonds.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO1",
     "PJO99"
    ],
    "node": "PJCL119",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-09-19",
    "date": "2025-09-19",
    "display": "Sep 19, 2025",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The $165B vote — 4 to 1",
    "desc": "Ordinances 367-2025 (the IRB) and 368-2025 (the LEDA share) pass; the commission chair is Manuel “Manny” Sanchez.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Everything that follows is downstream of one 4–1 vote taken on a 359-page record.",
    "node": "PJE2",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-10-14",
    "date": "2025-10-14",
    "display": "Oct 14, 2025",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "Ordinance 369-2025 adds LEDA permit-fee assistance",
    "desc": "A third ordinance extends the incentive package.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The incentive package kept growing after the vote the public was told was the decision.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-10-17",
    "date": "2025-10-17",
    "display": "Oct 17, 2025",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "The first Open Meetings Act suit is filed",
    "desc": "NMELC, for the Empowerment Congress and two residents, sues to void Ordinances 367 and 368 — Case D-307-CV-2025-02766.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMELC — OMA complaint (Feb 6 2026)",
      "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The attack on the vote's validity begins within a month of the emergency well filing.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO16",
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-10-21",
    "date": "2025-10-21",
    "display": "Oct 21, 2025",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The emergency well is filed",
    "desc": "Santa Teresa Capital requests emergency authorization under § 72-12-22. The letter, signed by agent Gilbert G. Mesa and copied to managing partner Lane Gaddy, states THREE wells had failed — and lists the industrial project’s construction schedule among the nine reasons. The State Engineer’s action box on the application is blank: not approved, not denied.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "OSE — hearing officer report (Aug 20 2025)",
      "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "One month after the vote, the water question the county called settled reopened as an emergency.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO103"
    ],
    "node": "PJE100",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "revisit",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-10-21b",
    "date": "2025-10-21b",
    "display": "Oct 21, 2025",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "NMELC files a motion for stay in the OMA challenge",
    "desc": "The open-meetings fight over the ordinances begins.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMELC — OMA complaint (Feb 6 2026)",
      "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The first attempt to pause the ordinances. It fails five months later, and construction never stops.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO16"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-10-30",
    "date": "2025-10-30",
    "display": "Oct 30, 2025",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The agreements are signed in private — and they have grown from 359 pages to 1,583",
    "desc": "Commissioners authorized the chair to negotiate final changes outside public session. The package the public saw at the September vote was 359 pages; the one Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez signed six weeks later runs 1,583 — and the word “potable” had been added to the water cap.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Haussamen — final agreements grew exponentially (Dec 18 2025)",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/12/18/final-project-jupiter-agreements-grew-exponentially/"
     },
     {
      "label": "Executed Memorandum of Understanding (as signed)",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Executed-Memorandum-of-Understanding-MOU.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The document the public read ran 359 pages. The one that governs runs 1,583, and no commissioner read the difference in public.",
    "node": "PJE42",
    "actors": [
     "PJP4",
     "PJO9"
    ],
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-10",
    "date": "2025-10",
    "display": "Oct 2025",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The well is allowed — and cannot be stopped",
    "desc": "Under § 72-12-22 drilling proceeds during review and protestants cannot enjoin it; 32 letters of protest follow.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "OSE — hearing officer report (Aug 20 2025)",
      "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "A statute written for a failing domestic well became the route around the protest process.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO45"
    ],
    "node": "PJE119",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "revisit",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-11-12",
    "date": "2025-11-12",
    "display": "Nov 12, 2025",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "The closing: twelve instruments in one day",
    "desc": "Consecutive instruments #2525177–2525188 record the whole assembly and distribute it the same day — parcels out to the power entity, four data-center entities, and a 702-acre tract to an entity named “SI SNM01Expansion, LLC” — larger than the announced campus.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments",
      "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The recorded footprint is larger than the announced one.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO66",
     "PJO135"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-11-14",
    "date": "2025-11-14",
    "display": "Nov 14, 2025",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The East and West applications are filed — the caps are promises, not hardware",
    "desc": "Acoma, LLC submits two gas-turbine applications. Requested caps: 249.97 and 248.90 tons of NOx against a 250-ton federal review line — while the East application’s own table puts uncontrolled potential at 3,699.16 tons. The caps are built from dispatch promises: “only thirty (30) units will operate at 100% load”; “not more than five (5) turbines will operate simultaneously.” The listed plant owner is Doña Ana County.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMELC — initial letter re: YGI Microgrid",
      "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Initial-Letter-re_-YGI-Microgrid-.pdf"
     },
     {
      "label": "NMED — YGI modeling review (Jun 16 2026)",
      "url": "https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/Zjk1ZGJmOWM2YzhiYTJiYTUyZjYzMTA3MF8yMzYxODE~.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "node": "PJE97",
    "why": "The cap is not a control technology. It is a promise about how many turbines run.",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "aggregation",
     "state": "intact"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2025-12-24",
    "date": "2025-12-24",
    "display": "Dec 24, 2025",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "$32,400 to Padilla from the Alarid cluster — in one day",
    "desc": "Seven CFIS-recorded contributions on a single date, nine months after the amendment became law.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM CFIS — contribution records",
      "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html#/index"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The money arrived nine months AFTER the amendment became law. The sequence is the point, and it runs the other way.",
    "actors": [
     "PJP22"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-01-09",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "display": "Jan 9, 2026",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The emergency-well protest deadline closes",
    "desc": "Thirty-two protests are on file against a well that was already drilled and in use.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "OSE — hearing officer report (Aug 20 2025)",
      "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Thirty-two protests against a well that was already drilled and pumping.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO45"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-01-14",
    "date": "2026-01-14",
    "display": "Jan 14, 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The first critical account of the microgrid loophole",
    "desc": "Source NM describes Section 6 as an ETA circumvention — ten months after the Fiscal Impact Report described the same provision.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — HB 93 coverage",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2025/04/09/gov-lujan-grisham-signs-electric-grid-solar-power-and-cannabis-enforcement-bills-into-law/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Ten months passed between the state's own record describing the exemption and anyone reporting it.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO92"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-01-20",
    "date": "2026-01-20",
    "display": "Jan 20, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "A $1.5M check is accepted at a commission meeting",
    "desc": "The Boys & Girls Club gift from the developer's community package is presented and accepted in public session.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The community package arrives on schedule. The job reports do not.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-01-31",
    "date": "2026-01-31",
    "display": "Jan 31, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The first quarterly job report is due — none is filed",
    "desc": "The county's own reporting requirement goes unmet for the first time.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution",
      "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The first promise with a deadline attached, and the first one to pass unmet.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-02-06",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "display": "Feb 6, 2026",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "The Open Meetings Act suit is filed",
    "desc": "NMELC, for the Empowerment Congress, sues to void the two ordinances — Case D-307-CV-2025-02766.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMELC — OMA complaint (Feb 6 2026)",
      "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "A second, independent legal theory attacking the same September meeting.",
    "node": "PJE88",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "meter",
     "state": "cut"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-02-11",
    "date": "2026-02-11",
    "display": "Feb 11, 2026",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The CRRUA arsenic case settles for $189,000",
    "desc": "The utility's failures are resolved; all four plants have been compliant since January 2025.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "CRRUA — NMED settlement",
      "url": "https://www.crrua.org/node/109"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The water utility's failures are settled on paper just as its load is about to grow.",
    "node": "PJE116"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-02-14",
    "date": "2026-02-14",
    "display": "Feb 14, 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The Senate passes the Microgrid Oversight Act, 22–20",
    "desc": "The bill would have put the PRC over microgrids, required water-use reporting, and barred passing microgrid costs to ratepayers.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — SB 39 (2026)",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0039.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "A majority of the Senate voted to restore the review the amendment had removed.",
    "node": "PJE47"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-02-19",
    "date": "2026-02-19",
    "display": "Feb 19, 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The oversight bill dies at adjournment",
    "desc": "House Judiciary does not reconvene; the bill never reaches the governor and is never vetoed.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — SB 39 (2026)",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0039.PDF"
     }
    ],
    "why": "It was never vetoed. A committee simply did not reconvene.",
    "node": "PJE47"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-03-20",
    "date": "2026-03-20",
    "display": "Mar 20, 2026",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "Dismissal denied — and the stay denied too",
    "desc": "Judge DeLaney refuses to throw out the Open Meetings challenge, issuing a writ of certiorari for review on the administrative record. She also refuses to pause the ordinances. The validity attack survives; the clock never stops.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMELC — OMA complaint (Feb 6 2026)",
      "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The challenge to the vote's validity survives and the construction never pauses — every week built strengthens the argument that it is too late to stop.",
    "node": "PJE89"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-04-17",
    "date": "2026-04-17",
    "display": "Apr 17, 2026",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "The Ethics Commission sues Elevate New Mexico",
    "desc": "The state alleges Elevate spent at least $2,500 lobbying NMED without registering; Elevate refuses to register or disclose its funders.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM State Ethics Commission — complaint v. Elevate",
      "url": "https://www.sec.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-17-SEC-v.-Elevate-Compl.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The first crack in the anonymous campaign urging the state to approve the permit.",
    "node": "PJE60"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-04-27",
    "date": "2026-04-27",
    "display": "Apr 27, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The threshold-engineered applications are withdrawn",
    "desc": "Acoma pulls the East (10732) and West (10734) microgrids — each 0.03 tons under the major-source line — the day NMED decides to hold a hearing; the fuel-cell replacement's modeling is dated the same day.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMELC — initial letter re: YGI Microgrid",
      "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Initial-Letter-re_-YGI-Microgrid-.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Two permits engineered to sit just under the review line were pulled the day review became certain.",
    "node": "PJE115",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "aggregation",
     "state": "intact"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-04-27b",
    "date": "2026-04-27b",
    "display": "Apr 27, 2026",
    "track": "DEAL",
    "head": "Oracle publishes “Project Jupiter Water Facts”",
    "desc": "The company's own accounting of its water use enters the record.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Oracle — Project Jupiter Water Facts",
      "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/project-jupiter-water-facts-2026-04-27/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The company's own numbers enter the record, which makes them checkable.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO1"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-05-26",
    "date": "2026-05-26",
    "display": "May 26, 2026",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The Supreme Court enters the Rio Grande decree",
    "desc": "In one paragraph the Court ends a thirteen-year case and puts New Mexico under an obligation to cut 18,200 acre-feet a year of depletions in this basin within ten years — half of it within five.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "U.S. Supreme Court — Order List, May 26 2026",
      "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052626zor_6j36.pdf"
     },
     {
      "label": "NM OSE — LRG Water Rights Purchase Program",
      "url": "https://www.ose.nm.gov/LRGWRPP/index.php"
     }
    ],
    "why": "New Mexico is now legally obligated to take water OUT of this basin.",
    "node": "PJE122"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-05-26b",
    "date": "2026-05-26b",
    "display": "May 26, 2026",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The decree says nothing about a new industrial user",
    "desc": "It is sector-neutral, imposes no moratorium on new appropriations, and nothing on the record reconciles a new large groundwater demand with an obligation to reduce them. That question goes to a state plan due May 2028.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Texas Tribune — the settlement is sector-neutral",
      "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/28/texas-new-mexico-rio-grande-water-dispute-supreme-court-settlement/"
     },
     {
      "label": "Somach — Supreme Court enters the decree",
      "url": "https://somachlaw.com/policy-alert/supreme-court-enters-decree-approving-settlement-in-texas-v-new-mexico/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The obligation is real and nothing on the record reconciles it with a large new industrial demand.",
    "node": "PJCL138"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-05",
    "date": "2026-05",
    "display": "May 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "A state special audit finds 42 failures across county government",
    "desc": "Jaramillo Accounting Group's special audit — begun over a sheriff's-office dispute, expanded across county operations — finds 42 findings; State Auditor Joseph Maestas calls them “serious and systemic failures.” DFA later deems 19 of them material weaknesses describing an environment where misuse of public money could occur undetected. The audit is about county government broadly; it does not concern Project Jupiter.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — county to spend up to $489K on outside fiscal oversight (Aug 15 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-489k-fiscal-agent-special-audit-oversight-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The institution that holds title to a $165 billion project, and is the counterparty meant to enforce its agreement, has audited weaknesses in its own financial controls.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-02",
    "date": "2026-06-02",
    "display": "Jun 2, 2026",
    "track": "VOTE",
    "head": "Primary day: the capture is on the ballot, and the November matchup is set",
    "desc": "Three Jupiter-connected figures run — among them Shannon Reynolds, third for Assessor, and BorderPlex consultant Jose Ibarra for District 3. And in District 1, Daisy Maldonado — who entered the race over the IRB vote — wins the Democratic primary by 277 votes. The seat is open: Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez, who chaired the $165B vote and signed the final agreements, is not seeking reelection. Her November opponent: water attorney Samantha Barncastle Salopek.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado wins the D1 Democratic primary (Jun 3 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-wins-dona-ana-county-commission-district-1-primary-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "node": "PJE82",
    "why": "The commission majority that approved the deal is already dissolving — the chair's own seat is decided by voters who have watched all of it.",
    "actors": [
     "PJP104",
     "PJP167",
     "PJP4"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-09",
    "date": "2026-06-09",
    "display": "Jun 9, 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "Socorro County adopts a one-year moratorium",
    "desc": "The first New Mexico county to pause data centers outright.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — STTC moratorium framework",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/STTC%20081026%20Item%2010%20Conceptual%20Framework%20-%20A%20Data%20Center%20Moratorium.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The first county to decide it needed time. Three more follow."
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-14",
    "date": "2026-06-14",
    "display": "Jun 14, 2026",
    "track": "PEOPLE",
    "head": "NPR: “Worries over water”",
    "desc": "National coverage frames the water question against chile and pecan farming.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NPR — Worries over water",
      "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5786551/worries-over-water-as-a-giant-data-center-moves-into-the-new-mexico-desert"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The water question stops being a local story."
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-16",
    "date": "2026-06-16",
    "display": "Jun 16, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "NMED's modeling review lands",
    "desc": "The state's own numbers for the current permit: 37.2 tpy NOx, minor for PSD, while the site “will be a major source for Title V.”",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — YGI modeling review (Jun 16 2026)",
      "url": "https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/Zjk1ZGJmOWM2YzhiYTJiYTUyZjYzMTA3MF8yMzYxODE~.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The state's own arithmetic — the numbers the air case is argued from.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-17",
    "date": "2026-06-17",
    "display": "Jun 17–30, 2026",
    "track": "PEOPLE",
    "head": "A paid influencer campaign runs before comments close",
    "desc": "Xomad recruits New Mexico creators for a two-week paid push whose stated goals include helping “increase positive comments” — ending days before the July 6 deadline.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — reporting on the campaign",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/06/30/new-mexico-residents-say-their-names-used-without-permission-to-support-project-jupiter-data-center/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Paid creators were recruited to shape the comment record in the window before it closed.",
    "node": "PJE124"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-22",
    "date": "2026-06-22",
    "display": "Jun 22, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The state orders the county under outside fiscal oversight",
    "desc": "DFA requires a state-approved external fiscal agent for the county's capital-outlay and special-appropriation grants — reviews, reconciliations, no advance funding — until all 42 audit findings are remedied. No fixed end date.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — county to spend up to $489K on outside fiscal oversight (Aug 15 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-489k-fiscal-agent-special-audit-oversight-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "node": "PJE127",
    "why": "The county may no longer handle certain state money without a chaperone — while administering the largest IRB in state history.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-30",
    "date": "2026-06-30",
    "display": "Jun 30, 2026",
    "track": "PEOPLE",
    "head": "Residents' names used on comments they never wrote",
    "desc": "Source NM reports canvassers in Project Jupiter t-shirts and pro-permit comments filed without consent.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — names used without permission",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/06/30/new-mexico-residents-say-their-names-used-without-permission-to-support-project-jupiter-data-center/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The public record itself became the thing in question.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO92"
    ],
    "node": "PJE106",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "consent",
     "state": "cut"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-06-30b",
    "date": "2026-06-30b",
    "display": "Jun 30, 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "Santa Fe County adopts an 18-month moratorium",
    "desc": "Data centers of 1 megawatt or more are paused for eighteen months, citing Project Jupiter by name — the second of four New Mexico counties to act.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — STTC moratorium framework",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/STTC%20081026%20Item%2010%20Conceptual%20Framework%20-%20A%20Data%20Center%20Moratorium.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "A county with no stake in this project paused data centers citing this project by name.",
    "node": "PJE118"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-02",
    "date": "2026-07-02",
    "display": "Jul 2, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "Max Shepherd is appointed hearing officer",
    "desc": "The docket opens with final decision authority delegated to the hearing officer.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Scheduling Order (Jul 16 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-16-AQB-26-57-Scheduling-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "One person now holds final decision authority over the permit.",
    "actors": [
     "PJP128"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-06",
    "date": "2026-07-06",
    "display": "Jul 6, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The public comment period closes",
    "desc": "The comment window ends — later the subject of a fraud investigation.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Scheduling Order (Jul 16 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-16-AQB-26-57-Scheduling-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The record closed before anyone knew how much of it was fake.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-09",
    "date": "2026-07-09",
    "display": "Jul 9, 2026",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "The Department of Justice opens a fraud investigation",
    "desc": "Chief of Civil Affairs Billy Jimenez writes NMED: a “potentially substantial” number of comments may be fraudulent.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMDOJ — letter to Sec. Kenney (Jul 9 2026)",
      "url": "https://kvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-09-NMDOJ-Ltr-to-NMED-JKenney-re-YGI-.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The state is now investigating whether the public's own comments were forged.",
    "node": "PJE107",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "consent",
     "state": "cut"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-14",
    "date": "2026-07-14",
    "display": "Jul 14, 2026",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "The State Land Office denies the pipeline a second time",
    "desc": "Commissioner Garcia Richard upholds the denial of the Green Chile crossings — “not in the best interest of the trust.”",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMSLO — reconsideration denial letter (Jul 14 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.nmstatelands.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-Letter-re-Informal-Request-for-Reconsideration_Final.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Without the pipeline, the campus has no established lawful fuel supply.",
    "node": "PJE104"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-15b",
    "date": "2026-07-15b",
    "display": "Jul 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "Sierra County adopts an 18-month moratorium",
    "desc": "The third New Mexico county to pause data-center development.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — STTC moratorium framework",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/STTC%20081026%20Item%2010%20Conceptual%20Framework%20-%20A%20Data%20Center%20Moratorium.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The third county in seven weeks."
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-16",
    "date": "2026-07-16",
    "display": "Jul 16, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The hearing is set for October 19",
    "desc": "The original scheduling order fixes the date the site would carry, then have to correct.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Scheduling Order (Jul 16 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-16-AQB-26-57-Scheduling-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The schedule that was about to be compressed by five weeks.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-24",
    "date": "2026-07-24",
    "display": "Jul 24, 2026",
    "track": "COURT",
    "head": "Elevate settles — and names its only funder",
    "desc": "Compelled to register, the “secretive Virginia nonprofit” that lobbied NMED to approve the air permit discloses $3,667,000 in contributions, all of it from Yucca Growth Infrastructure — the applicant itself — and $419,478 in ad spend.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM State Ethics Commission — complaint v. Elevate",
      "url": "https://www.sec.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-17-SEC-v.-Elevate-Compl.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The nonprofit lobbying the state to approve the permit was funded entirely by the applicant.",
    "node": "PJE123"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-27",
    "date": "2026-07-27",
    "display": "Jul 27, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The applicant asks to move the hearing up",
    "desc": "Counsel Jennifer Bradfute argues “$325 million per month, beginning in November”; the hearing officer says no, in the room.",
    "tier": "CV",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "$325 million a month is the reason offered for compressing a public process.",
    "node": "PJE112",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-28",
    "date": "2026-07-28",
    "display": "Jul 28, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The manager who signed the framework MOU is gone; three acting managers take over",
    "desc": "County Manager Scott Andrews — who signed the county's framework MOU three days after the $165B vote — has his contract terminated unanimously, without cause. After a closed session, commissioners appoint Deb Weir, Lucio Luttrell, and Stephen Lopez as JOINT acting managers. The county does not say how authority divides among them, who holds final say over contracts and personnel, or how long the arrangement lasts.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — county appoints three-person acting management team (Jul 31 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-three-acting-county-managers-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The institution administering the largest IRB in state history enters its permit-decision autumn with no permanent executive and an authority structure it has not explained.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9",
     "PJP56",
     "PJP57"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-29",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "display": "Jul 29, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "Two days later, the hearing moves five weeks earlier",
    "desc": "The amended order sets September 14 — citing the due-process arguments of the three parties who opposed the move.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Five weeks of preparation vanished — justified by the due-process objections of the parties who lost them.",
    "node": "PJE9",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-07-30",
    "date": "2026-07-30",
    "display": "Jul 30, 2026",
    "track": "VOTE",
    "head": "The commissioner who said no joins the ticket",
    "desc": "Stephanie Garcia Richard wins the Democratic vote for lieutenant governor, 53–46, on Deb Haaland's ticket.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — Garcia Richard wins Lt. Gov nomination",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/07/30/new-mexico-land-commissioner-garcia-richard-wins-democratic-lieutenant-governor-nomination/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The official who denied the pipeline is now on the statewide ticket.",
    "node": "PJE121"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-01",
    "date": "2026-08-01",
    "display": "Aug 1, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "A motion to move the hearing back",
    "desc": "Colin Cox (CBD) asks “what happened between Monday morning… and Wednesday night?”",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "ABQ Journal — hearing date changes to September",
      "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/project-jupiter-air-quality-hearing-date-changes-to-september/3094091"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Someone asked on the record what changed between Monday morning and Wednesday night.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO19"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-05",
    "date": "2026-08-05",
    "display": "Aug 5, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The show-cause order — can it be built without the pipeline?",
    "desc": "The hearing officer orders the company to answer whether any lawful gas supply exists for a 400-MMcf/d campus.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The regulator asked out loud whether the campus can lawfully be fueled at all.",
    "node": "PJE113"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-06",
    "date": "2026-08-06",
    "display": "~Aug 6, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The motion to revert is denied",
    "desc": "The September 14 date stands; the challenge to the reschedule fails.",
    "tier": "CV",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "ABQ Journal — hearing date changes to September",
      "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/project-jupiter-air-quality-hearing-date-changes-to-september/3094091"
     }
    ],
    "why": "September 14 is now fixed, and every deadline before it with it.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-10",
    "date": "2026-08-10",
    "display": "Aug 9–10, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The show-cause order is withdrawn",
    "desc": "The hearing officer takes the fuel question back — “inadvisably filed” — and sends it to sworn testimony at the hearing.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Sua Sponte Order (Aug 10 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-10-AQB-26-57-Sua-Sponte-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The fuel question does not disappear. It moves to sworn testimony, where it is harder to answer.",
    "node": "PJE114",
    "ledger": {
     "checkpoint": "deliberation",
     "state": "locked"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-11a",
    "date": "2026-08-11a",
    "display": "Aug 10–11, 2026",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The interim committee hears the moratorium framework",
    "desc": "At NM Tech in Socorro, Reps. Lara Cadena, Chávez, and Rubio present a data-center moratorium framework for 2027.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — STTC agenda (Aug 10–11 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Agendas/STTCageAug10.26.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "A statewide moratorium framework now exists in draft for the 2027 session.",
    "node": "PJE120"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-11",
    "date": "2026-08-11",
    "display": "Aug 11, 2026",
    "track": "PEOPLE",
    "head": "The listening session — 400 seats and standing room",
    "desc": "Convened by Sen. Cervantes after the county deferred a town hall; Cervantes: the county “has chosen not to” enforce the breach.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — listening session",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/project-jupiter-senators-listening-session-august-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Four hundred seats filled for a project the county had declined to hold a town hall about.",
    "node": "PJE103"
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-11b",
    "date": "2026-08-11b",
    "display": "Aug 11, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The county creates a citizen monitoring committee — Resolution 2026-101",
    "desc": "Eleven residents — two per commission district, a third from the chair's — with authority to write their own bylaws, elect officers, and hold independent information forums. Members may hold no financial interest for or against the project; the county must provide logistics, Spanish interpretation, and an advising attorney, and is directed to ask the project's companies to participate.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — county seeks 11 residents for monitoring committee (Aug 15 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-project-jupiter-community-monitoring-committee-interest-form-2026/"
     },
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — Community Monitoring Committee interest form",
      "url": "https://donaana.gov/projectjupiter"
     }
    ],
    "node": "PJE126",
    "why": "The first structural oversight instrument the county has created since the vote it took eleven months ago.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-13",
    "date": "2026-08-13",
    "display": "~Aug 13, 2026",
    "track": "WATER",
    "head": "Energy Transfer's window to contest the denial closes",
    "desc": "The 30-day administrative-contest window on the second SLO denial runs out.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMSLO — reconsideration denial letter (Jul 14 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.nmstatelands.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-Letter-re-Informal-Request-for-Reconsideration_Final.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The administrative route to reverse the pipeline denial expires.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO8",
     "PJO11"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-14",
    "date": "2026-08-14",
    "display": "Aug 14, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "The county hires its required fiscal chaperone — up to $489K from reserves",
    "desc": "In a six-minute special meeting, commissioners approve the SENMEDD contract 4–0 to satisfy the DFA order. Staff note one rejected bidder wanted 20% of each grant — $15–20 million across the ~108 affected appropriations. Chair Manuel Sanchez: “truly the best option based off of the cost.” The price may still rise as appropriations arrive.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — county to spend up to $489K on outside fiscal oversight (Aug 15 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-489k-fiscal-agent-special-audit-oversight-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Complying with the state's finding that the county cannot yet be trusted with its own grant money costs the reserves half a million dollars, open-ended.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9",
     "PJP55"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-24",
    "date": "2026-08-24",
    "display": "Aug 24, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "Technical testimony and prehearing motions due",
    "desc": "The next live deadline — experts file their full written evidence and the lawyers make their last arguments.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The last day to put expert evidence in front of the hearing officer.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ],
    "future": true
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-08-31",
    "date": "2026-08-31",
    "display": "Aug 31, 2026",
    "track": "COUNTY",
    "head": "Monitoring-committee interest forms close",
    "desc": "Residents who want one of the eleven seats must file the county's interest form by this day; commissioners appoint no later than September 4.",
    "tier": "C",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Doña Ana County — Community Monitoring Committee interest form",
      "url": "https://donaana.gov/projectjupiter"
     },
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — county seeks 11 residents for monitoring committee (Aug 15 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-project-jupiter-community-monitoring-committee-interest-form-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "future": true,
    "why": "The one open door that puts residents INSIDE an oversight structure instead of outside a comment window.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO9"
    ]
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-09-03",
    "date": "2026-09-03",
    "display": "Sep 3, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "Rebuttal and motion responses due",
    "desc": "The answers to the evidence and the motions.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The final written word before the room.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ],
    "future": true
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-09-14",
    "date": "2026-09-14",
    "display": "Sep 14, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The hearing begins",
    "desc": "9 a.m., Sunland Park Multi-Generational Center — the permit is argued under oath.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The only proceeding where the fuel, the water, and the air are argued under oath.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10",
     "PJPL1"
    ],
    "future": true
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-11-03",
    "date": "2026-11-03",
    "display": "Nov 3, 2026",
    "track": "VOTE",
    "head": "The general election",
    "desc": "Land Commissioner (Sanchez III vs. Perry), County Commission D1 (Maldonado vs. Barncastle Salopek — the open seat of the chair who signed the agreements), Governor and Lt. Governor.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — Garcia Richard wins Lt. Gov nomination",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/07/30/new-mexico-land-commissioner-garcia-richard-wins-democratic-lieutenant-governor-nomination/"
     },
     {
      "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado wins the D1 Democratic primary (Jun 3 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-wins-dona-ana-county-commission-district-1-primary-2026/"
     }
    ],
    "actors": [
     "PJP104",
     "PJP167"
    ],
    "why": "Two of the offices on this ballot have already ruled on this project.",
    "node": "PJE51",
    "future": true
   },
   {
    "id": "2026-11-23",
    "date": "2026-11-23",
    "display": "Nov 23, 2026",
    "track": "AIR",
    "head": "The NMED decision deadline",
    "desc": "The department must rule on the permit by this day.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The permit is granted or denied by this day.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO10"
    ],
    "future": true
   },
   {
    "id": "2027-01-01",
    "date": "2027-01-01",
    "display": "Jan 1, 2027",
    "track": "VOTE",
    "head": "A new governor takes office",
    "desc": "The administration that inherits the project's state-side commitments changes hands.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "Source NM — Garcia Richard wins Lt. Gov nomination",
      "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/07/30/new-mexico-land-commissioner-garcia-richard-wins-democratic-lieutenant-governor-nomination/"
     }
    ],
    "why": "The administration that made the state's commitments is replaced by one that did not.",
    "future": true
   },
   {
    "id": "2027-01-19",
    "date": "2027-01-19",
    "display": "Jan 19, 2027",
    "track": "LAW",
    "head": "The 2027 legislative session convenes",
    "desc": "The moratorium, the Microgrid Oversight Act, lobbying disclosure, and water-rights limits are all expected back.",
    "tier": "PS",
    "sources": [
     {
      "label": "NM Legislature — STTC agenda (Aug 10–11 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Agendas/STTCageAug10.26.pdf"
     }
    ],
    "why": "Every bill that died comes back, now with four county moratoria behind it.",
    "actors": [
     "PJO52"
    ],
    "future": true
   }
  ],
  "clusters": [
   {
    "id": "amendment",
    "from": "2025-02-17",
    "to": "2025-04-08",
    "name": "The amendment · 50 days",
    "read": "A bill dies and its substance becomes law inside seven weeks."
   },
   {
    "id": "48hours",
    "from": "2025-03-20",
    "to": "2025-03-22",
    "name": "The 48 hours",
    "read": "Final passage happened two days before the Legislature went home."
   },
   {
    "id": "reschedule",
    "from": "2026-07-16",
    "to": "2026-08-06",
    "name": "The reschedule · 21 days",
    "read": "A denial on Monday, a reversal on Wednesday, a challenge denied inside a month."
   },
   {
    "id": "race",
    "from": "2026-09-14",
    "to": "2027-01-01",
    "name": "The race window",
    "read": "Why the applicant wanted the hearing moved up."
   }
  ],
  "proximity_runs": [
   {
    "first_entry": "2025-03-20",
    "entries": 3,
    "days": 2,
    "phrase": "Three steps — amendment, concurrence, adjournment — inside forty-eight hours."
   },
   {
    "first_entry": "2026-06-14",
    "entries": 3,
    "days": 3,
    "phrase": "National coverage, the state's own modeling, and the start of a paid campaign, inside three days."
   },
   {
    "first_entry": "2026-06-30",
    "entries": 3,
    "days": 2,
    "phrase": "Two of these share a date; the third follows two days later."
   },
   {
    "first_entry": "2026-07-14",
    "entries": 3,
    "days": 2,
    "phrase": "A state denial, a county moratorium, and a hearing date, all in the same stretch of mid-July."
   },
   {
    "first_entry": "2026-07-24",
    "entries": 6,
    "days": 8,
    "phrase": "Six entries in eight days, bracketing the week the hearing moved."
   },
   {
    "first_entry": "2026-08-10",
    "entries": 6,
    "days": 4,
    "phrase": "Six entries in four days — the densest stretch in the record."
   }
  ],
  "marginalia": [
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2020-01-01",
    "to": "2024-12-31",
    "title": "The ground",
    "text": "What was already here. The region's utility goes private; the water utility that will serve the campus is caught bypassing most of its arsenic treatment."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2025-01-01",
    "to": "2025-02-09",
    "title": "The assembly",
    "text": "Before any of it is public. Land goes under option and the state signs a memorandum of understanding with the developer."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2025-02-10",
    "to": "2025-07-31",
    "title": "The amendment",
    "text": "A microgrid exemption fails as its own bill, reappears as a floor amendment to a grid-technology bill, and becomes law."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2025-08-01",
    "to": "2025-10-20",
    "title": "The vote",
    "text": "Doña Ana County approves $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds, 4 to 1, twenty-four days after starting the clock."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2025-10-21",
    "to": "2026-01-13",
    "title": "The private closing",
    "text": "An emergency well, the first lawsuits, and a final agreement signed outside public session that runs four times longer than the one the public read."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2026-01-14",
    "to": "2026-06-15",
    "title": "The record breaks open",
    "text": "Reporting starts, an oversight bill passes the Senate and dies, the state sues an anonymous lobbying group, and two air permits are withdrawn."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2026-06-16",
    "to": "2026-08-23",
    "title": "The permit",
    "text": "The state's own modeling lands, the comment record is referred for fraud investigation, and the hearing is moved five weeks earlier."
   },
   {
    "kind": "act",
    "from": "2026-08-24",
    "to": "2027-12-31",
    "title": "What is ahead",
    "text": "Filing deadlines, the September hearing, the November decision, and an election that changes who holds the state's side of the deal."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2025-02-10",
    "term": "Fiscal impact report",
    "text": "A neutral analysis legislative staff attach to a bill, describing what it does and what it costs. It is written for legislators, not the public."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2025-02-17",
    "term": "Behind-the-meter microgrid",
    "text": "Generation built on the customer's own side of the utility meter. Power made this way is not sold across the grid, so most utility regulation does not reach it."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2025-08-26",
    "term": "Industrial revenue bond",
    "text": "A financing tool where a county takes nominal title to a project and leases it back. The county owes nothing; the arrangement lowers the company's property tax for the bond's term."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2025-10-14",
    "term": "LEDA",
    "text": "The Local Economic Development Act, the state law that lets a local government give public money or fee relief to a private company in exchange for promised jobs."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2025-10-17",
    "term": "Open Meetings Act",
    "text": "New Mexico's law requiring that public bodies deliberate and decide in public, with notice. A suit under it asks a court to void what was decided, not to judge whether it was wise."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2025-10-21",
    "term": "§ 72-12-22",
    "text": "The statute for replacing a failing well. Drilling may proceed while the state reviews it, and protestants cannot stop the drilling in the meantime."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2026-03-20",
    "term": "Writ of certiorari",
    "text": "An order for a lower body's record to be sent up for review. Here it means the court will judge the county's decision on the record the county itself made."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2026-04-27",
    "term": "Major source · Title V",
    "text": "A federal threshold — 250 tons a year of a pollutant here. Cross it and a heavier permit and public review attach. Staying under it is a design choice, not an accident."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2026-05-26",
    "term": "Acre-foot · depletion",
    "text": "An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons. A depletion is water permanently removed from the system — the measure an obligation to cut usage is written in."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2026-06-09",
    "term": "Moratorium",
    "text": "A time-limited pause on approvals while a government writes rules. It stops new applications; it does not undo approvals already granted."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2026-06-16",
    "term": "Nonattainment · design value",
    "text": "A design value is a monitor's three-year score for a pollutant. An area is in nonattainment when a value exceeds the federal standard — one monitor is enough."
   },
   {
    "kind": "gloss",
    "at": "2026-07-02",
    "term": "Hearing officer",
    "text": "The official who runs a permit hearing and, here, holds the final decision. Not a judge; the proceeding is administrative, and appeals go elsewhere."
   }
  ],
  "friction_ledger": [
   {
    "key": "public-interest",
    "header": "The deleted clause",
    "pull": "The question was removed from the statute, verbatim.",
    "state": "locked",
    "status": "Locked — it is enacted law.",
    "findings": [
     {
      "text": "Senate Floor Amendment 1 to HB 93 struck the requirement that utility self-source acquisitions “take into account the public interest and need, reliability and affordability” from § 62-8-13. Not skipped — removed, in the diff.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-03-20"
     },
     {
      "text": "Signed as Chapter 93. The governor's release describes only the grid-technology provisions.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-04-08"
     }
    ],
    "restoration": "The Microgrid Oversight Act would restore review: it passed the Senate 22–20 on February 14, 2026 and died in House Judiciary at adjournment five days later. Expected back in 2027."
   },
   {
    "key": "aggregation",
    "header": "The split permits",
    "pull": "Two applications, each three-hundredths of a ton under the review trigger — withdrawn when a hearing loomed.",
    "state": "intact",
    "status": "Restored — under scrutiny. The review held when someone watched.",
    "findings": [
     {
      "text": "From the applications’ own Table 2-E: requested caps of 249.97 (West, Configuration 2) and 248.90 (East) tons per year of NOx against a 250-ton federal review trigger. Three one-hundredths of a ton, by the applicant’s own arithmetic.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-11-14"
     },
     {
      "text": "From Table 2-D: the East Microgrid’s maximum uncontrolled potential was 3,699.16 tons per year of NOx — nearly fifteen times its requested cap. The cap was built from dispatch promises, quoted: “only thirty (30) units will operate at 100% load”; “not more than five (5) turbines will operate simultaneously.” The cap is not a control technology. It is a promise about how many turbines run.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-11-14"
     },
     {
      "text": "The redaction had a stated basis and an expiry: confidentiality was requested over turbine model names only, for 60 days, because the applicant was “in the process of procuring equipment.” A narrow procurement shield — more defensible than the blacked-out pages look.",
      "tier": "PS"
     },
     {
      "text": "Both applications were withdrawn after NMED determined it would hold a public hearing. The replacement application requests Title V major-source status outright.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2026-04-27"
     }
    ],
    "restoration": "Already restored. The mechanism was a hearing."
   },
   {
    "key": "deliberation",
    "header": "The compressed calendar",
    "pull": "Denied Monday morning. Moved Wednesday night.",
    "state": "locked",
    "status": "Locked while it runs — every week gained feeds the reliance claim.",
    "findings": [
     {
      "text": "The land was under option from January 6, 2025 — eight months before the public vote, and before the memorandum of understanding the record already called secret. The assembly was locked in January; the public process ratified it in September.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-01-06"
     },
     {
      "text": "Twenty-four days from the inducement resolution to the $165 billion vote.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2025-09-19"
     },
     {
      "text": "The commission authorized its chair to negotiate final changes outside public session. The package the public read at the vote ran 359 pages; the executed one runs 1,583, and the word “potable” had been added to the water cap. The deliberation happened — it happened where nobody could watch it.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2025-10-30"
     },
     {
      "text": "The applicant's counsel asks for an earlier hearing; the hearing officer declines in the room. Two days later an amended order moves the hearing from October 19 to September 14 — citing the due-process arguments of the three parties who opposed moving it.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2026-07-29"
     },
     {
      "text": "The motion to move it back is denied.",
      "tier": "CV",
      "at": "2026-08-06"
     },
     {
      "text": "“They're expediting the hearing, now they're expediting the ruling. Why? Because there'll be a new governor on January 1st.” — Sen. Cervantes, August 11, 2026.",
      "tier": "CV"
     }
    ],
    "restoration": "None retroactive. Time spent is not recoverable."
   },
   {
    "key": "consent",
    "header": "The comment record",
    "pull": "The state is investigating whether the public record is real.",
    "state": "cut",
    "status": "Cut — under active investigation.",
    "findings": [
     {
      "text": "Residents report their names used without permission on pro-project comments; canvassers wore Project Jupiter shirts.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2026-06-30"
     },
     {
      "text": "The New Mexico Department of Justice opens an investigation into fraudulently submitted comments.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2026-07-09"
     },
     {
      "text": "The word “potable” was added to the county water cap after the commission vote — the 20,000-gallon figure the public heard governs drinking water only.",
      "tier": "C"
     }
    ],
    "restoration": "The investigation's outcome, and comment-integrity standards for permit dockets."
   },
   {
    "key": "meter",
    "header": "The missing meter",
    "pull": "Two required reports never filed — and no enforcement followed.",
    "state": "cut",
    "status": "Cut — reversible the moment anyone enforces.",
    "findings": [
     {
      "text": "Two quarterly job-report deadlines passed with no report filed, on January 31 and at the end of April 2026.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2026-01-31"
     },
     {
      "text": "“Jupiter is in breach of contract, which the county can enforce. And at this point in time has chosen not to do that.” — Sen. Cervantes, August 11, 2026.",
      "tier": "CV"
     },
     {
      "text": "The enforcing institution's own meters failed audit: a state special audit found 42 findings across county government — 19 deemed material weaknesses — and DFA ordered the county under an outside fiscal agent for state grants until all are remedied. The audit does not concern Project Jupiter; it describes the capacity of the government responsible for enforcing Project Jupiter's agreement.",
      "tier": "C",
      "at": "2026-08-14"
     }
    ],
    "restoration": "Enforcement of the agreement the county already signed. No new law required — the cheapest restoration on this page."
   },
   {
    "key": "revisit",
    "header": "The thirty-year lock",
    "pull": "Approve once. No obligation to ever revisit it.",
    "state": "locked",
    "status": "Locked by design.",
    "findings": [
     {
      "text": "The industrial revenue bond is a thirty-year approve-once instrument; at term end, ownership passes to the companies' shareholders, not to the county.",
      "tier": "PS"
     },
     {
      "text": "The applicant confirmed the structure to a state agency on a signed form. Permit application Section 1-A: “Plant Owner(s) name(s): Doña Ana County, 845 N. Motel Blvd, Las Cruces, NM 88007.” The county owns the plant for the bond term — stated on a document the county does not control.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-11-14"
     },
     {
      "text": "No decommissioning, reclamation, or restoration obligation appears anywhere in the lease documents — a documented absence.",
      "tier": "C"
     },
     {
      "text": "Under NMSA § 72-12-22, protestants cannot enjoin an emergency replacement well; pumping proceeds during the administrative process. Thirty-two protests await a hearing with no date.",
      "tier": "PS",
      "at": "2025-10"
     }
    ],
    "restoration": "Decommissioning-bond legislation — Sen. Soules committed publicly to pursuing one on August 11, 2026 — and the citizens' oversight committee, which stopped being a notion the same day: Resolution 2026-101 created an 11-member Community Monitoring Committee with independent forums, appointments due September 4."
   }
  ]
 }
}