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University Daily Kansan, February 4, 1983
Power bill opposed in Senate hearings
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
A bill that would require utility customers to pay plant construction costs before receiving service would make those customers unwilling investors in the utility, a spokesman for the Kansas Corporation Commission said yesterday in Senate committee hearings.
Brian Moline, general counsel for the KCC, testified against the bill, which would allow utilities to charge customers for the construction costs of plants that are not completed and not yet providing service.
The Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee introduced and is now studying the bill, called the Construction-Work-In-Progress bill
"RATE-PAYERS ARE NOT investors," Moline said.
The bill would make utility customers unwilling investors, he said, and it would relieve traditional investors of their responsibility to raise capital.
The Wolf Creek Generating Station is the only plant that would benefit from passage of this bill in the short term, he said. It is the only plant under construction.
Kansas City Power & Light Co. and Kansas Gas & Electric Co. each own 47 percent of the Wolf Creek plant. Kansas Power Cooperative inc. owns 6 percent.
If the bill is passed, Moline said, the Legislature is in effect mandating that CPXL and 626 raise utility rates for customers next spring by almost 60 percent.
If the bill is not passed, however,
those utilities' customers could face a
90 percent rate increase when the plant
is completed, he said.
STATE SEN. Fred Kerr, R-Patt,
said that the Legislature could be
viewed as causing a large utility rate
or whether they passed the bill or
not.
"We're of caught in this, aren't we?" Kerr said.
"Somebody is," Moline replied.
Committee chairman Robert Talkington, R-lola, said, "It appears to me that rate-payers are caught either way."
Moline said that although utilities argue that customers who pay for CWIP are paying as they go, he thought paying as they go meant paying for electricity they used, not for future plants.
UTILITIES CANNOT predict that the costs to customers will be less with CWIP, he said, because they cannot predict accurately how much the plant is going to cost, what the rate of return would be, and additional rate increases will occur.
There are too many unknowns, he said.
State Sen. Ronald Hein, R-Topeka,
asked Moline to present data to the
committee showing that CWIP would
not lower utility bills.
Mari Peterson, of the Kansas Natural Resources Council, and Ivan Wyatt, president of the Kansas Farmers Union, also testified against the bill.
Talkington said that he didn't know when the committee would be voting on the plan.
Be wary of financial aid searches, official says
By SUSAN STANLEY
Students should beware of scholarship search services that offer to find sources of private financial aid for a price, Evy Gershon, assistant director of financial aid, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Gershon said that the office of financial aid did not encourage the use of cash.
"We have books in the financial aid office and in Watson Library that can give a student essentially the same information," she said.
Students do not always receive aid
from the sources found and sometimes the sources do not correlate with the preferences that the student requests.
"FOR EXAMPLE," Gershon said, "they send out a questionnaire asking if you are willing to work for the Army. You answer no and then one of the possible sources that they direct you to is the Army.
"I'm sure that there are people who are satisfied with the service but we never hear from them. Most people that come to us feel cheated."
Richard Horn, a Lawrence financial consultant who operates a scholarship service, said he could help students apply for scholarships available to them has been eliminated.
"There are scholarships out there. It's a matter of knowing the right places to look," he said.
HORN, WHO CALLS his financial business Fidelity Home, said the price of the service was $45 for undergrad students and $85 for graduate students.
Horn said it was the students' responsibility to follow up on the sources provided.
A student fills out a questionnaire about his family and past work experience and hobbies. The form is processed and the student receives at least five potential sources of aid, he said.
Ed Buckle of the Better Business Bureau in Kansas City, Mo., said his office had information about only one scholarship business, a New York University Scholarship Search. The bureau has received no complaints about the group, he said.
The sources do not include federal aid
sources, and if five cannot be found the
state may award them.
"OUR FILES say that they meet the requirements for the bureau's standards of operation," he said, "That includes handling any complaints about service and deceptive advertising promptly."
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