Bv STEVEN STINGLEY
Staff Writer
The Coast Guard has dismissed all charges and subsequent penalties against the University of Kansas for last spring's oil spill.
Coast Guard dismisses KU oil spill charges
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produced, by a Texas congressman, to prevent the broadcast of the broadcast by the school.
Walker said there might have to be some reduction in the athletic programs to pay the tax. "What would kill us most of all would be having to pay back taxes," he said.
Neinas has said that placing a tax—rumored to be around 40 per cent on the broadcast revenues would cost each school in the Big Eight about $100 a year. There also is a problem if the tax is made retroactive, he said.
"THE DEVASTATING PART would be collecting the back taxes, let alone to include that in your budgeting in the future," Neimas said. "If the IRS takes that attitude on TV and radio money, the next step will be looking at our gate receipts."
The IRS is concerned mostly with the television revenue, Walker said. The NCA's $18-million annual football contract with ABC-TV, its $5-million basketball contract with NBC-TV and TVS, various football bowl arrangements worth $12 million each, and inductees ofFERENCE's broadcasting contracts would be affected by the ruling.
"At this point, I think it's pure speculation as to what the decision will be," Walker said. "But I'm more optimistic than I was at the beginning."
Committee told gasohol mixture is not feasible
Three other states have recently passed legislation either calling for a study of gasohol or creation of a project aimed at producing the blend.
According to a memorandum prepared for the interim committee by its staff, the current price for a gallon of ethyl alcohol is $1.15. Under present conditions, that means the price of a bushel of wheat would have to fall below $2.60 in order for the process to be economically feasible, the memorandum said.
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Schmit said using wheat or corn to produce the grain alcohol resulted in a new market for farmers, a new industry for the state and a more efficient fuel for motorists. The alcohol as an efficient, less polluting fuel that drivers would buy if given the opportunity.
Bennett plans town meetings
Lane Harold of Farmand Industries told a Kansas legislature interim committee that he did not think gasohol would become a financially feasible fuel for automobiles until it price a of gallon of gas at the pump increased to between $1 and $1.50.
TOPEKA (AP)—Gov. Robert Bennett says his series of town hall meetings last year was so successful that he intends to do it again this week—a nine-city tour slated to begin on Wednesday.
"During the town hall meetings last year, I became even more convinced that Kansans from all walks of life are interested in their state and have constructive and useful ideas to improve government," Bennett said in a release Monday.
closed," said Dennis Schenck, spokesman for Coast Guard office in St. Louis, Monday.
Among things Bennett said he learned during last year's listening tour was the inability of southwestern and southeastern states to compete in the programming, the advantages of retaining the state meat control program and problems associated with water and energy. As a result of the meetings, steps were taken by the USDA or the Legislature in those areas, he said.
Lorni Schomt, a Nebraska state senator, said a gasohol manufacturing experiment in Nebraska had been successful, but he added that the major oil industry had not been helpful.
TOPEKA (AP)—Gasoloc, a blend of grain alcohol and gasoline, may not be the fuel of the future, at least as long as some serious economic factors stand between the wheat field and the gas pump, representatives of agricultural cooperatives said Monday.
The Coast Guard is required by the Federal Water Pollution and Control Act to fine all operators and owners responsible for oil spills. But Coast Guard attorneys ruled KU does not fit into that category because it is a state institution.
The first session is at Marysville next Wednesday; Greenburg, Sept. 10; Oberlin, Sept. 13; Emporia, Sept. 20; Kansas City, Sept. 26; Yates Center, Sep. 38; Wichita, Sept. 29; Scott City, Oct. 4; and Mankato, Oct. 6.
KU early this summer was fined $1,000 for not having an oil spill protection plan after about 5,000 gallons of fuel oil on May 5 leaked from an underground storage tank into the Lawrence storm sewerage system and the Wakaraus River.
Floyd Shoup, director of research and development for Far-Mar-Co., said a number of complex economic factors come into play, including the cost of gasoline, cost of grain, value of the by-products in a product, and the distribution of the product to the public.
Schenk said state institutions could not be fined because the state as a whole would be held responsible for actions committed by only a part.
Henry Rompage, the EPA attorney who handled the KU case, said Monday the differences between the EPA and the Coast Guard would be discussed on the national level.
However, officials of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to whom the fine was paid, disagreed with the dismissal of the case.
But, because the case is closed, no later decisions are made. Rodger Kiyoshi, RKY's director of physician education, said.
"The main problem in turning cereal grains into gasolol are its unfavorable economics," Harold said. "Technical data, but they are small by comparison."
KU was now compiling a spill prevention plan.
The EPA had initially recommended to the U.S. Attorney's office in Topeka that KU be fired for waiting 3 days to report the spill on Friday at a Friday and was renamed Monday.
However, a spokesman from the U.S. Attorney's office said that no criminal charges were filed because KU acted without upfitting the up spill and did not intend to cover up.
Most of the cleanup tool's place in a drainage ditch parallel to Naismith Drive. The fuel oil leaked from a rusted underground storage tank and was accidentally pumped into the city's storm sewerage system. From there the oil floated down the ditch, some of it eventually ending up in the Wakarusa River.
The faulty tank responsible for the spill has not been fixed and man is abandoned, on the ground.
Home'settlement' costs under fire
Buyers and sellers of homes in a "painful and unnecessarily expensive" process, spend more than $7 billion a year on real estate brokers, title companies and others who sell services needed to close a housing deal, the Housing Research Group said.
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The group, part of Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law, said the 1974 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act requires HUD to find ways to end abuses in the field. But HUD currently is not even collecting information to make the law work, the group said.
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WASHINGTON (UPI)—The government has fallen down on its job of protecting American consumers who spend 7 billion each year for the "settlement" costs associated with buying and selling a home, a Raibh Nader group charged Sunday.
"The purchase and sale of a home is probably the most important consumer transaction undertaken by the average American," a letter to Housing Secretary Patricia Harris.
Yet, it said, HUD has only three people working to keep down excessive settlement costs and the staff is "crippled by its small size."
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