N.M. Admin. Code § 20.5.121.2100
The department shall make expenditures from the fund that are necessary to take emergency corrective action, to investigate releases and undertake other corrective action in accordance with the priorities established in this part, to make payments to or on behalf of owners and operators as provided in 20.5.123 NMAC, to pay for the department's reasonable costs of administering the fund, to pay for the department's costs associated with the recovery of expenditures from the fund pursuant to section 74-6B-8 NMSA 1978, including related legal costs, and to pay the state's share of federal leaking underground storage tank trust fund cleanup costs as required by the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The department shall keep records of the expenditures made from the fund and shall make those records available to the interim legislative finance committee upon request.
N.M. Admin. Code § 20.5.121.2100