Thursday, February 21. 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Senate approves bill; prairie park could be stopped
By DON MUNDAY Staff Reporter
A bill limiting federal acquisition of Kansas land was passed yesterday by the Kansas Senate, 31-3.
Proponents of the bill hope it will stop the Tallgrass Prairie National Reserve proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives by Larry Winn, R-Kan.
The Kansas bill would require approval of the Kansas Legislature before the federal government could acquire more than 80 acres of land within the state.
Sponsors of the bill hope it will prevent the federal government from forcing landowners to sell property for the creation of a national park or reserve.
But State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenberg, chairman of the Senate committee that drafted the bill, said the state's law required a mortal blow to the progenous reservation.
"I don't think it will mean a whole lot," Reilly said. "It's an exercise in futility. I'll never stop Tallgrass, because the grass can be taken in and take the land if they want it.
"The bill won't stop that, but it is a general statement of principle."
The main weakness of the Senate bill, Reilly said, was the controversy surrounding its legal standing.
"I think the version passed was all
right," he said, "but it was un-constitutional as hell."
Attorney General Robert Stephan ruled last month that the land acquisition bills being considered in both houses of the Legislature would not hold up in court.
John Crofoot, R-Cedar Point, who introduced the bill in the Senate, said the attorney general's opinion did not stop the state trying to protect the state's interests.
"I don't know if it will stand up in court," Crofoft said, "but the important thing is that we sent a message to Washington."
A bill similar to the Senate version was approved by the Kansas House of Representatives, but the debate between the two will require further action before a unified bill can be sent to the governor.
The House version differed in several ways from the Senate bill, Crofoot said.
Two changes made in the House committee that helped make the bill acceptable to the full House were not included in the Senate version, he said.
One change the House made was to allow the sale of land to the federal government without legislative interference if the state offered the property for sale willingly.
"I didn't get in some of the amendments
I would have liked to include," Crofoot said of the Senate version.
One amendment he wanted to add was a clause that would allow willing buyer and willing seller transactions without legislative involvement.
The other major change made in the House was the negation of a clause in *Brown v. Koch*, which required the interior of the Interior the first option on buying land that comes on the open market, and the ability of this right to first refusal would have complicated unnecessarily the sale of land through the court.
"It iten't precisely as I wanted it, but at least it was nassed." Cfoot said.
Five Senators passed and one was absent during the Senate vote.
The House's version of the bill is now awaiting action in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
“It’s here in committee,” Reilly said, and ours is now over there. We’ve got so many bills floating around it’s hard to keep them straight.”
If the House amends the Senate bill, it would return to the Senate for approval.
would return to the Senate for approval.
The senator would have to approve the other's bill without amendments, the bill will have to go through a conference with the governor to be approved or vetoed by the governor.
Campus remodeling planned for summer
By GREG SACKUVICH Staff Reporter
A major remodeling of the A-Z Parking lot and the construction of an information booth in the downtown streets are among the landscaping and architectural projects planned for the KU campus this summer, Al Thomas, landscape architect, said yesterday.
The work on the A-Z zone parking lot behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall is the biggest project planned for the summer, Thomas said. The灯 will be repaired, the drainage lights installed. The work is expected to be the start of the fall semester, he said.
A second project planned for the summer is the improvement of the entrance to campus at 15th and Iowa streets. The improvements will include the planting of Iowa Street and the construction of an information booth on 15th Street, Thomas said.
Other summer projects include the installation of bicycle rackes at Robinson Hall and of redwood seats in the entryways of McColum, Hashinger and Oliver halles, Thomas said. The entryway of Snow Hall was installed so that it can be used as a bus stop.
A wall will be built between the Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall parking garage and Indiana Street for erosion control. A concrete wall has been stalled near the service area northwest of Lippincott Hill to prevent trucks from driving off the pavement, he said.
A sidewalk to replace the path that has been blocked by the entrance Zone parking lot will be built this summer, Thomas said. The replacement of the steps leading from the Campanile to Potter Lake would be built as soon as possible.
The last project will be the erection of historical markers at various sites on campus. This project is not definite, but it supports an Chancellor Archy Dkeys, "be said."
Architectural Services has a long list of projects. Their feasibility is studied and they then are listed by priority.
But Thomas said the summer projects were all equally important.
All the projects planned depend on the amount of money available, he said. Projects will open for bids as money available from the University budget.
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