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University Daily Kansan
National Water Project Underway at KU, KSU
With little more than one month gone since the Board of Regents placed the Kansas Water Resources Research Institute on the Kansas State University campus, with KU as a full partner, work is moving rapidly to get operations of the institute underway.
Robert L. Smith, professor of civil engineering at KU and chairman of the institute's policy committee, said yesterday that the proposal must be in the mail tonight to the Department of the Interior under whose authority the institute falls.
If the institute fails to be awarded one of the 14 allotments, there is still the possibility that Congress, when it convenes again, will authorize funds for those institutes whose proposals for operations were accepted but for whom there was no money available, Prof. Smith said.
He said that Congress will certainly make enough money available for the 1966 fiscal year, which begins July 1, 1965, to take care of $75,000 first year allocation for the institutes.
IF THE STATE'S proposal is accepted, the institute will receive one of 14 federal allotments of $75,000 for the current fiscal year. Prof. Smith said that some 30 to 35 state water resource research institutes will be competing for the 14 allotments authorized by Congress.
Under policies outlined by the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, which authorized institutes for all 50 states, the individual institutes are to receive $75,000 the first year they receive funds, $87,500 the
The institute's six-man policy committee has worked feverishly this week to complete a proposal for the institute's operations during the remainder of the 1965 fiscal year, which ends June 30, 1965.
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second year, and $100,000 each successive year, Prof. Smith said.
PROF. SMITH said that the Kansas institute would use about $60,000 for research and $15,000 for administrative costs during the remainder of this fiscal year if the funds are allocated.
The institutes are eligible for further federal funds on a dollar for dollar-matching basis with non-federal funds, Prof. Smith said.
KU members, in addition to Prof. Smith, are Ross E. McKinney, professor of civil engineering, and William J. Argersinger Jr., dean of faculties for research.
The six-man policy committee is composed of three members each from KU and KSU.
Friday, Dec. 4, 1964
GLEN BECK, dean of the school of agriculture; A. B. Cargwell, director of the bureau of general research; and Paul Russell, dean of the school of engineering, represent KSU on the policy committee.
Prof. Smith will serve as chairman for a period ending two years after receipt of the first federal funds. The chairmanship will be alternated every two years between the two universities.
Authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, Congress created the institutes "to
stimulate, sponsor, provide for, and supplement present programs for the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, and the training of scientists in the fields of water and of resources which affect water."
THE KANASS institute, although headquartered at KSU, will utilize personnel and facilities there and at KU, Prof. Smith said. He emphasized the two schools are equal partners in the project.
Congress also stated in the bill that one of the purposes of the institutes was "to assist in assuring the Nation at all times a supply of water sufficient quantity and quality to meet the requirements of its expanding population . . ."
The proposal for operations which is being submitted today is a complex compilation of information requested by the Department of the Interior. It includes evidence that the institute conforms to the requirements of the act, evidence that the institute will have the capability of doing effective work in water resources research, a description of the facilities to be utilized, a list of staff personnel and their training, water resources conditions and needs of the state, and proposals for research projects during the remainder of this fiscal year.
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