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University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1983
Committee OKs water-transfer bill
By DIANE LUBER
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — People wanting to transfer large quantities of water within Kansas will have to prove to a special panel that the transfer would benefit the state, if a bill that a Senate committee recommended for passage yesterday becomes law.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee unanimously endorsed a bill that would set up a water transfer hearing panel. Anyone applying to transfer 1,000 acre-feet or more of water a year for a distance of 10 miles or more would have to first receive approval of a hearing panel.
ONE THOUSAND acre-feet of water is almost one million gallons.
The committee approved several amendments to the bill in an attempt to create guidelines to govern this new approach for keeping up with water demands. The bill now goes to the full Senate.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said, "This is going to be a very serious business one of these months, one of these years. Someday an application is going to be turned down and it's going up in the Legislature, or the courts."
One of the amendments to the bill would require the panel to consider an applicant's water conservation practice before approving a water transfer.
**THAT AMENDMENT prompted another amendment that would require the panel to consider the conservation effort. The user opposing a transfer application.**
"If the applicant must have a conservation plan," Hess said, "then someone protesting the transfer should have one too."
State Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, said, "If someone protests, they're to have to be as clean as the applicant they're protesting."
The bill would require the panel to consider the current and future uses of water in the region where it exists. The bearing panel would also consider the water source adjacent to the leaving the water where it is by denying the application.
ALTERNATIVE sources of water available in the applicant's region and in the region where the water exists would also be considered.
The committee also passed an amendment stipulating that the three-member hearing panel would consist of the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the State Board of Agriculture; the director the Kansas Water Office; and the secretary of the Department of Health and Environment or the department's director of the division of environment.
Applications that are approved by the hearing panel go to the Kansas Water Authority for approval and then the Legislature for final approval.
Club sponsors films, testing to promote health education
To help educate students about fitness, nutrition and some diseases, the University of Kansas Pre-Med Club and KU Recreational Services have designated Wednesday as Health Awareness Day.
The club will provide films on fitness and nutrition, demonstrations and testing of health care techniques and speeches on nutrition from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the front lobby of Robinson Center.
MIKE DULWORTH, a member of the club, said, "We feel there is a need to inform students and faculty on various aspects of health that are otherwise forgotten.
All activities will be free, he said.
Club members will check students' blood pressure, lung capacity, percentage of body fat, grip strength and body flexibility.
At 12:30, Marie Cross, associate professor of human development, will give a speech on nutrition and the college student.
AT 1:30. Paul Huntinger, an associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, will speak on sexually transmitted diseases.
At 2:30, Don Henry, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, will demonstrate cardio-ovascular pulmonary resuscitation, or CRP.
Literature on specific health problems will be available at the door.
Legislative Roundup
The House Communication, computers and Technology Committee yesterday sent a bill to the full House for approval that would provide $1.5 million for a high-technology research partnership program in Kansas.
Former U.S. Sen. James Pearson, chairman of the Governor's Task Force on High Technology Development, said in written testimony that 691 high technology firms surveyed in 1982 perceived universities in the mountains and plains regions as the lowest rated in the nation.
Bill would set prices
The House Agriculture Committee will vote today on a bill that would set minimum prices on wheat, feed grains, milk, cotton, rice and other crops in an attempt to help farmers struggling with low prices.
legislatures in Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, South Dakota and North Dakota are also considering minimum price legislation.
Minimum prices would be set by the secretary of the state Board of Agriculture when at least 60 percent of the commodity is produced in
states which have minimum price legislation.
Both the Kansas Farm Bureau and the Kansas Livestock Association are opposed to the bill because they say minimum prices would falsely raise the commodity price and keep buyers from looking at Kansas products.
Panel wants training
The House Public Health and Welfare Committee voted unanimously yesterday to approve a bill that would require aides at nursing homes to receive 60 hours of training and provide direct care to the home residents.
Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Current law requires that an aide be certified within the first six months of employment. Ninety hours of work are required for certification.
Federal and state state committees.
State Rep. Neil Whitaker, R-Wisconsin, told the committee decided to introduce a measure banning paramilitary training because the House's rejection of the bill Wednesday gave the public the impression that lawmakers condone terrorist activities.
The bill would not increase change the total hours of training required.
The bill will now go to the full House for a vote.
Paramilitary issue lives
A bill banning paramilitary training that was killed by the House was *Revised and Repealed*.
Bill to stop utility suits
The House Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill that would prevent a utility company from paying for equipment if money because of equipment error.
The bill would prohibit a utility from demanding money more than 90 days after a customer had received his last incorrect bill.
The bill coincides with attempts by the Kansas Board of Public Utilities to recover more than $3 million in electric bills that resulted from a faulty meter at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The BPU filed a petition Monday in federal court charging the state of Kansas, the University of Kansas, the University of Oklahoma, and with defaulting on the electric bills.
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TOPEKA — A House committee yesterday temporarily dropped proposed salary increases for KU employees from Gov. John Carlin's 1084 budget to introduce legislation later this session to separately address the increases.
Also, the committee reduced Carlin's recommended increase in funding for university operating expenses from 7 to 5.5 percent.
Bunten announced to the committee that anticipated revenues in the month of February had fallen $20 million short.
State Rep, John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said faculty members and other university employees would receive pay increases. But he said the Legislature might not be as generous in raising salaries.
Sobach urged the committee not to reduce funding for Regents universities because the universities had already sustained their share of the 4 percent budget reductions that Carlin made last year.
The 4 percent budget reductions were made last summer and then were made
On salary increases, State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topteau, chairman of the committee, said 'he Legislature could more fairly assess the proposed salary increases if the issue were introduced through separate legislation.
In a move that the House Ways and Means Committee has made in the past, the proposed salary increases were deleted from the committee list. The committee evaluated different areas of Board of Regents schools funded by the state.
"INSTITUTIONS OF higher education can deteriorate, just like highways," he said. "But the deterioration is more costly than for highways."
HE SAID decisions made in the committee yesterday would not be permanent and that the committee used the session to compare the Regents' requests with Carlin's recommendations.
“This is kind of a practice session, None of this is set in concrete,” he said. “This is a little bit like rowing with your oars out of the water. It’s good exercise, but we haven’t really gone anyplace.”
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BUT HE TOLD the committee universities could not be looked to first for money-saving measures, because in the past universities had been hit harder by Carlin's budget than other areas.
"I think over the years, every time we needed to take something out of the budget, we've taken it out of the regents and And I don't think that's fair," he said.
Bunten reminded the committee that the Legislature this session needed to frugally examine its funding priorities and investment agencies and state universities.
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