New Mexico environmental records for a Phase I ESA

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New Mexico Environment Department 17

A Phase I records review in New Mexico draws mainly on one department: the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED). Its Resource Protection Division holds the Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau, the Hazardous Waste Bureau and the Resource Recovery Bureau, the new name NMED gave its Solid Waste Bureau. Its Water Protection Division holds the Ground Water Quality Bureau, whose programs cover state-overseen cleanups, voluntary remediation, brownfields and NMED's part in federal Superfund work. The Environmental Health Bureau, in the Environmental Health Division, regulates septic systems. This page maps each kind of record ASTM E1527-21 asks for to the New Mexico program behind it, and links a page on each program.

The standard record types, in New Mexico

ASTM record type	New Mexico program	Agency
State Superfund equivalent	No single New Mexico list is paired here. The pages read call no New Mexico list a state Superfund list. This handbook reads the nearest as the State Cleanup Program (SCP), whose active and closed site lists NMED links; Neglected Contamination Sites, contamination with no viable responsible party to pay for the work; and NMED's Superfund Oversight of federal Superfund sites.	NMED
State hazardous waste facilities	Permitted hazardous waste facilities: the Hazardous Waste Bureau's list of the state's permitted facilities, federal and commercial or private. Generators are a separate record, on Hazardous waste generators and EPA identification numbers.	NMED
Landfills and solid waste sites	Solid waste facilities: the Resource Recovery Bureau's lists of permitted and registered facilities, two of them lists of landfills.	NMED
Leaking storage tanks	Active Leaking and No Further Action Sites: the Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau's list under that name.	NMED
Registered storage tanks	Petroleum storage tank registrations: the Bureau's county lists of active tanks and of all tanks.	NMED
Institutional and engineering controls	No single New Mexico list is paired here. The pages read name no registry of controls. Under the Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP), NMED says it issues a Conditional Certificate of Completion where a site still needs monitoring, engineering controls, land use restrictions or other care after closure.	NMED
Voluntary cleanup sites	Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP), whose site list NMED links	NMED
Brownfields sites	Brownfields Program, whose site list NMED links	NMED

How far each search reaches is on the ASTM search distances page.

One department, and the agencies beside it

NMED's pages point to other agencies in places. A Ground Water Quality Bureau page links a document it labels Delegation of Responsibilities to NMED and Oil Conservation Division, which this handbook did not open, and this handbook does not read the Oil Conservation Division's pages. NMED says the dashboard of former uranium mine and mill sites was released with the Mining and Minerals Division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. The Hazardous Waste Bureau's permits and corrective action cover facilities across the state except on Indian lands. For air quality records in Bernalillo County, NMED's records page says it has no jurisdiction there and gives (505) 768-1972, the number of the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department.

NMED's maps and site lists

NMED's Maps and Data page links its OpenEnviroMap, a map of the department's GIS layers that the user turns on and off. A version for tanks, Petroleum Storage Tank Facilities, Releases, and Reports (GoNM), carries the Bureau's facility data, and NMED says its features link to Resource Space, where site documents can be reviewed and downloaded. The same page links a tank dashboard that NMED says updates itself weekly, the dashboard of former uranium mine and mill sites, an open data site, and a link it labels Find a liquid waste permit, marked pre-January 27, 2017. NMED requires anyone using that permit search to accept conditions first; the liquid waste permits page gives the one that bears on commercial use.

The Ground Water Quality Bureau's Clean-ups page links its site lists: active and closed State Cleanup Program sites as PDF files, and brownfield sites and Voluntary Remediation Program sites as Excel and PDF files.

Getting a file from NMED

A listing says a record exists. The reports and letters are in the file. NMED takes requests under the Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA), set out on its Public Records Requests page and in more detail on the Public records requests page here. NMED says the Act gives every person the right to inspect its public records, with some exceptions, and that the custodian must allow inspection no later than 15 calendar days after receiving a request.

NMED asks that requests be sent to its Public Records Custodian. NMED calls its online Public Records Request Portal the fastest route, and says no account is needed.
NMED also takes requests by mail to P.O. Box 5469, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, or by telephone at (505) 827-2855. A request may be spoken or written, but NMED says the Act's procedures and penalties reach only written requests.
A request gives the requester's name, address and telephone number, and describes the records well enough for the custodian to find them.

Some programs add a route of their own. For a septic permit file, NMED says to ask the local field office. The Hazardous Waste Bureau links its Permit Management Program Electronic Files. For tank sites, the GoNM map links documents as described above.

NMED's headquarters is at 1190 St. Francis Drive, Suite N4050, in Santa Fe's Harold Runnels Building (NM 87505). Its telephone lines are 505-827-2855 and 800-219-6157. Its Office Locations page lists the field offices by district, with their hours. NMED's home page gives 505-827-9329 as its environmental emergency line, answered 24 hours.

Sources

New Mexico Environment Department pages, read October 13, 2026, no modified date shown: