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University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1984 Page 8
House OKs Carlin's hazardous-waste bill
From Staff and Wire Reports
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved most of Gov. John Carlin's hazardous waste package and sent three bills to the Senate, including one that would pave the way for a statewide ban on underground burial of hazardous waste.
The House, on a vote of 106 to 17, gave the final nondot to the bill that would prohibit land burial of hazardous wastes unless a person was charged with such proof that the underground burial proved no present or future danger.
The bill, and another that would create a state Hazardous Waste Clean-up fund, was recommended by Carlin in his January address to the Legislature as a way to help prevent the kind of groundwater that occurred at a hazardous waste dump near Farley two years ago.
Carlin shut down the dump in Sedgwick County, the only commercial hazardous waste dump in Kansas, in January of 1892, after hazardous chemicals were discovered leaking into groundwater.
The owners of the site have since spent more than $3 million cleaning
it up and have applied to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to reopen the dump, which would rely in part on ground burial.
On a vote of 81 to 42, the House approved the bill that would create a "Superfund" to pay for identifying and cleaning up hazardous waste sites in Kansas. The fund could be used to respond more迅速 to personal responsibility for any health or environmental hazards created by a site.
The third bill given House approval yesterday, with a vote of 122 to one, would allow cities and counties to contract with local waste companies and to require generators of solid wastes to dispose of their wastes.
Opposition during discussion of the first two bills came mostly from State Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugeton, who said the Kansas Department of Health and Environment already had full authority to accomplish what both bills would allow.
He said that the department now has the power to prohibit land burial of any hazardous waste deemed unsafe to health and environment and that it was authorized to set up funds to monitor and clean up hazardous waste sites.
Official urges approval of stiffer alcohol laws
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The official in charge of regulating alcoholic beverages in Kansas yesterday suggested that a Senate committee consider two bills that propose tough new taxes or minorities buying, possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages.
Tom Kennedy, director of the Alcholic Beverage Control Division of the Kansas Department of Revenue, urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider the bills as punishments that would "hit home" with minors.
The director asked the committee to seriously consider a bill that would require the suspension of the driver's license of any under 21 years old found guilty of buying, possessing or consuming liquor.
The bill would provide that any minor convicted of purchasing, possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages which amount to $20 and jailed up to 30 days.
Also, if the minor had a driver's license, it would be suspended for one year. If the minor was too young to have a driver's license, the date be or she legally could receive one would be pushed back one year.
Sen. Norman Raaf, RWestwood,
inkenlly suggested that if the bill were
passed, the legislature should pass a law that would take away similar special privileges for adults.
"I suppose we should tell an adult who drinks too much that he can't go to school," she said.
Also yesterday, Kennedy testified in favor of a bill that would establish equal penalties for persons who sell minors to minors and to minors who buy them.
Kennedy said the bill would make liquor retailers more careful about selling to minors and would make minors less apt to buy liquor. But minors might be more greatly deterred because the increase in penalties for alcohol-related crimes is higher than the penalties for minors on the books were now weak and rarely enforced.
Kennedy said the present law only allows judges to fine minors up to $200. The bill would require that the judge fine minors and adults who sell liquor to miners at least $250 and no more than $1,000. The judge also could impose a jail sentence of up to 90 days, or require both jail and a fine.
Payne Ratner Jr., a lobbyist for the Kansas Retail Liquor Dealers Association, said the punishment proposed in the bill was unfair to store owners because they often cannot determine the age of people who try to buy alcohol, especially those people have fake driver's licenses.
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