baca: senate bill 123 was passed. it bically ended coal power in nevada, and it mandated that there would be no more power plants and that the existing power plants had to be sunsetted. atkinson: ok, we are adjourned. raborn: right around that same time was, you know, the recession. woman: the stock market is now down 21%. man: 'cause we're now down 43%. man: the dow traders are standing there watching in amazement, and i don't blame 'em. raborn: in d.c., senator and his leadership staff and congress worked to pass the american reinvestmentnd recovery act. reid: what we're trying to do is stop a depression. that's why president obama says that this bill is so important to the american people. it's not only important for the short rm to create millions of jobs, but 'll also do things for the long-term, like start doing something about our energy grid. if we can produce renewable energy and take it someplace, it creates thousands of jobs in nevada, and that's what this legislation is all about. raborn: there was $6 bill

baca: it's one of the weirdest acronyms, but i love snplma, yeah. ensign: this bill fixes the faulty land exchange process. lopez: john ensign washe sponsor of snplma at the time, and senator reid and senator bryan were the senate champions for getting that legislation through. reid: we'll change the way we do things in the state of nevada regarding land. anderson: snplma, as it's lovingly referred to, was the seminal piece of legislation that created the land sale radigm fothe las gas valley. lopez: the concept was instead exchanging land, just auction public land to the highest bidder. that way, you ing market forces, and you just put it out in the open and you auction land. man: open th bid at 250,000. open this bid at 11 million. reid: have a public auction and none of this trading business. man: now 60... number 179 higbidder. baca: it creates a level playing field for everybody. man: he says he's out. 14,200,000. close the bid here at $14,200,000. reid: the money that came from the land would go back into family sensitive things in nevada. bac

[poignant music plays] [slide projector clicks] baca: it's interesting. in nevada, where we have these incredible wilderness areas, we have these beautiful night skies, there are so many assets. however, we had no national parks. so few places were really being celebrated for the incredible beauty that they had. christensen: when reid got into congress, he wanted to change that. wanted to put nevada on the p in a different way. reid: i wanted to do somethi about wilderness. because vada was growing so fast, i knew people unintentionally would ruin the environment. i had a press secretary. i'd been out looking around rural nevada, and she called me. she said, "senator, i'm in ely. these people up here think you should forget about this wilderness thing and go for a national park." chisholm: before harry reid was elected to congress, if you were an environmentalist in nevada, you didn't have a friend in congress. in fact, you had people who were working against you. laxalt: the values i have now are very much the values of having been raised in an old-count

first as i reported to you in the past, you know, baca has been doing demand and populations, since 2000our population projections have actually tracked very well with actual population, seen in the service area for the last 20 years, while admitantly have been off because they have been impacted by covid and several years of drought and things that are difficult to anticipate and difficult to incorporate intoman projections. in addition, i know mr. richie has stated a few times that for san francisco, the urban plan the outer for what you think projections is going to be. i would say that that is different in the service area, it differs by agency depending on the growth and the connection that the water supplier has to grow. there is a difference for total demand and their purchase projections importantly, the agency that's have multiple supplies, they have the ability to purchase more on any given year. and that may or may not equate to an increase in demand. that is something for us not to forget as we look at the picture, thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments, madam se