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Legislature looking at increasing fees
By John Collar
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA—The Kansas Legislature is wading into the issue of sand dredging in the Kansas River.
The House Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard testimony yesterday on a bill that would increase the price of sand taken from rivers in Kansas.
Many who testified spoke of the damage to the river that would result from increased dredging operations.
"Private corporations are taking public property from our children and grandchildren." Burr said.
"We shouldn't sell the sand in the river at any price," said Lance Burr of Lawrence, co-founder of Friend of the Kaw, a group formed in response to a proposed dredging location about six miles north of Lawrence.
sand, which is 8 cents per ton, to match the amount paid on sand mined on land, which is 15 cents per ton. The royalty is distributed to the state water plan fund and to local drainage districts for water-quality improvement projects.
the bill under consideration would increase the royalty paid on river
William Craven, legislative coordinator for the Kansas Natural Resource Council, said the royalty disparity placed the river at a disadvantage.
"The current royalty creates an incentive to dredge sand from a public resource without due regard for the environmental implications," Craven said. "The Kansas River, for all practical purposes, is the only river in the state where a recreational corridor can be established."
posed dredging operation in part because of worries that the dredging could affect a city landfill near the river. If the river's course was altered by the dredging, material from the landfill could be released into the water, environmental groups contend.
The Lawrence and Douglas County commissions condemned the pro-
Sand dredging in the river has been a contentious issue for about a year since Victory Sand and Gravel Co. applied for a permit to dredge about six miles north of the bridge over the Kansas River in Lawrence. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering Victory's application.
No opponents of the bill testified, although several owners of dredging operations were present, including Edward Moses, managing director of the Kansas Aggregate Producers' Association.
State Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, said she had been working on a bill that would impose a moratorium on dredging in the river.
Last summer, State Rep. Laura McClure, D-Osborne, introduced a similar bill to an interim committee, but it was defeated.
Moses said the bill would not create an incentive for the dredgers to move to land-based operations because dredgers don't pay the royalty for the sand. Companies that purchase sand from dredgers would face a higher price.
Pearson to undergo facelift
Former residence hall slated for renovation
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Once buzzing with students living inside, Joseph R. Pearson Hall now houses offices from departments all across campus that are suffering space shortages.
But current occupants also face the prospect of looking for new quarters.
Bob Bearse, chairman of the University Space Committee, said that the tentative starting date for the renovation of JRP was July 1997.
The building is slated to be renovated and enlarged with funds from the proposed $163 million crumbling classrooms construction funding bill.
"JRP is currently used to house a number of programs," Bearse said. "When it is finished, it will be primarily occupied by the School of Education."
Bearse said that the current occupants would likely have to move when the renovation is underway.
The former residence hall is now home to storage for libraries and purchasing, the child clinical psychology program, housekeeping, the University Affiliated Program, fine arts studios, liberal arts offices and the practice area for the university band.
"As to where they are going to go, I really can't answer that," Bearse said. "At this point, we haven't been able to plan anything, because there is no other comparable space available on campus."
Grant Thurman, program assistant in the Gateway Center in JRP, said they had been there since October, 1994.
"The Gateway Center is a program that works to recruit low-income and first-generation college students to KU to study early childhood
education," Thurman said.
Thurman also said the federal grants that funded the Gateway Center were cut last year.
Wayne Sailor is the director of the University Affiliated Program, and oversees the Gateway Project.
"We haven't made any plans for moving yet," Sailor said. "We can't plan anything until the administration tells us their plans for JRP." Sailor said they were working to replace the lost federal funds for the Gateway Center with private donations, and he was surprised to hear of the proposed July 1997 start date of JRP renovations.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor and member of the University Space Committee, said he was concerned about relocating the library storage from JRP.
"We don't have any place to move those things to," Eakin said. "The ideal situation would be to get the basement of Hoch partly finished, at least the air conditioning and lights."
HEDRICK SMITH
author, documentary producer and former New York Times bureau chief
William Allen White Foundation's 1996 National Citation for Distinguished Service
will receive the
at 1:30 p.m.Friday, February 2 in Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
The national citation has been awarded since 1950 to journalists who exemplify the ideals of William Allen White, who was a nationally influential Kansas editor and publisher until his death in 1944. Hedrick Smith has said that William Allen White "was one of my boyhood heroes as a journalist. Indeed, his autobiography helped inspire me to become a reporter."
Smith, for 26 years a correspondent for the New York Times in Washington, Moscow, Calro, Saigon, Paris and the American South, has published national best sellers: "The Russians" (1976), "The Power Game: How Washington Works" (1988) and "The New Russians" (1990).
In the past six years, he has become known for his television documentaries on PBS. His documentary series, "Inside Gorbachev's USSR," won the Columbia Du Pont Gold Baton, grand prize in all categories of public affairs television in 1991.
Smith's latest book is "Rethinking America," which expands on his PBS documentary series "Challenge to America." Smith explores how innovators in America, Japan and Germany are making schools, businesses, jobs and people work more effectively in the global economy.
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