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Dossier · Who's Who
Nathaniel Chakeres
General counsel of the Office of the State Engineer and its counsel of record in the air-permit hearing, to which the office is a party.
At a glance
- Current role
- General Counsel, NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)[1]
- Category
- Attorney
- Jurisdiction
- State of New Mexico
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 1 sources · 1 connections · 3 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP149
Key facts
- Counsel of record for the Office of the State Engineer, a party in the air-permit hearing.[1]
- The roughly one-million-gallon-a-day estimate attributed to the State Engineer's office originated with Chakeres, from “an informal conversation” with a Project Jupiter attorney, per the office's spokeswoman.
- 2026-09-01On September 1, 2026, told a legislative interim committee he has not “been super thrilled” with Project Jupiter's shifting water needs.
The record
The state water agency's lawyer in the permit hearing — the Office of the State Engineer is now a party to the proceeding that decides the campus's air permit.
Relationships · 1
In the timeline · 3
Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.
Claims involving them · 1
Sources · 1
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