University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 17. 1971
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Kansan Photo by RANDY HERRINGTON
Pollution Results Are Widely Evident
Feed lots sometimes kill fish.
Alumni to Honor Top Students
A series of banquets is being held at the Kansas Association to honor Kansas high school students who have been designated as "Kansas Honor
The honors banquet for Douglas County is scheduled for Jan. 13. The banquet will be held at Douglas County Alumni Chapel.
Vinice Billaot, field director for the association, said there were six purposes involved in the Honor Student* programs.
These purposes are to recognize outstanding students for their achievements, increase knowledge and skills in Kansas alumni in their local communities, help to promote understanding among high school groups and KU alumni, focus on providing opportunities to pose and accomplishments of local high schools, create meaningful programs for KU alumni throughout the state, and the KU and the citizens of Kansas.
The students who will be honored at the series of banquets are those who rank academically above 10 per 10 percent of their class
Additionally, a few others who rank in the top 25 per cent of their class and who display excellent leadership qualities in their
school or community will be honored.
The local high school will name its honor students, and the local high school will sponsor a banquet to honor the students. Each student will be sponsored.
At this time, banquets are
Pollution Concerns Sierra Head
scheduled for Reno County, Dec. 2; Butter County, Jan. 18; Douglas County, Jan. 13; Saline County, Jan. 26. More are also being planned for other counties, but dates have not been set.
By PHILIP WILDMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
An important problem concerning pollution in Kansas is the enforcement of existing pollution laws, according to George C. Cogins. Cogins is an associate with the Lawrence, Sierra Club.
"The most advanced pollution laws are in Michigan," Coggins says. "Most counties and courts are given jurisdiction to tackle any pollution problem, he
"There are a lot of areas for improvement in the environmental protection environment system of Kansas." Coggins says.
The agency handling a particular pollution problem should be given adequate power and care of the problem, he said.
As the Kansas pollution laws stand now, a number of different jurisdictions over violators in various offenses depend upon their affluence.
THE SIX EXISTING laws and the agencies administering them are an air pollution law, a water law, a criminal justice law, administered by the Board of Health; a feed lot law ad-hoc; a livestock Stockton Sanitation Commission; assistance of the Board of Health; a pesticide law ad-hoc; a state Agriculture; and the state planning law, which provides for
Assistant Atty. Gen. Bill Ward said all the law enforcement laws for firefighters last few years, but that the law concerning water was based on
"Admittedly," he said, "we have a lot of pollution problems in Kansas and we need to be stricter a code as some places. Explaining the administration of the air pollution law, Ward said that we had to work with ambient air and emission standards, established an air quality inspection, fixed inspection requirements, allowed emerald motored local air quality control.
The administering agency is responsible for finding violations of the law and bringing court action if necessary.
an advisory council concerning pollution.
The Board also has the authority to establish local enforcement of its rules and to make additional rules.
THE PLANNING AGENCY, as an advisory group, has no jurisdiction.
Pregnancy tests will now be given "free" to students attending college or high school. Student Service Committee member. Jacobs said in an interview Friday that the $5.00 cost of the pregnancy test and out of the Student Health Fee
The state attorney general prosecutes cases concerning air and water laws. The county attorney administers the pesticide and solid waste laws. No specific prosecution authority has been established.
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Feed lot laws apply to operations with 1000 head of cattle, or in an area. With this number of livestock, an input of manure is the problem concerning feed lots is that large amounts of manure are often disposed of by building a feed lot beside a river or stream. The manure deposited in such wells often kills large numbers of fish.
AFTER AN INVESTIGATION has been made, an abatement order is issued. The Board has
The water pollution law gives the Board of Health authority to establish water quality standards for drinking water and produces evidence that a violation has occurred, the offender may be subject to fines Penalties for breaking water safety laws range from $25 to $250 per day.
Solid waste management is set up in every county. This area comprises garbage, refuse and other solid material.
"Now that the analysis is done in Wakins, it has become another service that can be paid for by the fee."
"It used to be that the patient was to send the student had to be sent off campus for analysis, so the student had to be charged
SINCE PENALTIES for pollution by owners of feed lots are not specifically provided for, other laws can be used for controlling dumping manure in streams, the water pollution is enforced.
Jacobs said that Janet Sears, assistant dean of women, initiated the request to have the test covered by the fee.
the power to fine the offender $1000 a day and can bring action to close an operation if the law is not obeyed.
"In my opinion, that's not very much." Ward said.
The pesticide law is said to be innovative and Kansas is one of the states with the largest Department of Agriculture administers the use of pesticides.
The state planning law calls for
an advisory group to counsel on ecological matters. Proposing remedies to pollution problems is one of the groups main functions.
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This kind of power, then, could be applied to a pollution problem where the law isn't adequate in scope.
WARD SAID THESE laws were still too new to tell exactly how effective they would be.
"We must have cooperation, he said, referring to cooperation between administrative and law enforcement agencies.
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As far as power to enforce the law is concerned, Ward said that when he is in office and above statutes, since he was the chief legal officer of the common law powers, which provide the broad authority to legislate, he has no right.
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Coggins said he agreed completely that pollution problems "have to be dealt with now."
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A problem Coggins pointed out was that the legislature's potential offsets between the legislature's concern for economics and for the en-
"But," he said, "you can't operate in a vacuum when you think of preventative measures. What we're there are economic considerations."
proposed nuclear disposal site in Lions. Ward said that under Gov. Ducking's direction, the attorney general required the Atomic Energy Commission to be safe for disposal of a site would be safe for disposal of a site.
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