N.M. Stat. § 70-2-24
Reports of governmental departments or agencies as to
market demand to be deemed prima facie correct.
The reports, estimates, findings of fact or similar documents or findings of the United
States bureau of mines, or of any other department or agency of the United States
government, or of any bureau or agency under an interstate compact to which the state
of New Mexico is a party made with respect to the reasonable market demand for crude
petroleum oil, may be considered by the division or by any court and taken as being
prima facie correct.