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Luke Drury, senior fiscal analyst, summarized the Division's FY2025 adjustments, including $5.6 million in unspent State Water Plan Fund monies rolling from FY2024 to FY2025 and a supplemental request for hazardous-waste fund stabilization. Drury said the Legislative Budget Committee had deleted the hazardous-waste supplemental in the global adjustment and advised the committee he would stand for questions.

Deputy Director Kate Gleason described Division programs (air, remediation, waste management, field services and water) and presented three SGF enhancement requests the agency submitted: a $350,000 hazardous-waste fund stabilization request, a $425,000 one-time request for the Kansas Environmental Information Management System (KEIMS) implementation, and $210,000 to continue livestock waste-management staffing. Gleason told the committee the hazardous-waste fee fund balance has declined and the requested SGF bridge would allow rule making and fee adjustments to proceed: “That fund is or that program is funded half by an EPA grant which has not gone up in years…and the other half…is fee funds.”

Water-implementation requests and federal funds: Gleason also described water-implementation enhancement proposals not all initially in the agency's base request. The Division requested funding for rural and private groundwater protection ($500,000), increased watershed (RAPS) work ($1,000,000), contamination remediation targeted at orphan sites ($1,000,000), and district engineer positions to support regionalization and infrastructure planning. The agency reported approximately 144 orphan contaminated sites on its list that may require remediation. Gleason said the Division has pursued federal grants for PFAS and other emerging contaminants and noted a $10,000,000 ARPA award originally planned to be spent across FY2024 and FY2025 was nearly fully expended in FY2024.

Committee questions and points of clarification: Representatives asked whether hazardous-waste stabilization could be covered from other rolling funds and whether the hazardous-waste request would carry into FY2026 (the agency requested the FY2026 SGF continuation). Committee members asked for specifics on the Brownfields program and on the scope of contamination remediation (Gleason clarified contamination work typically addresses soil and groundwater and prioritized protection of drinking water sources). Representative Carlin requested a plain-language explanation of PFAS; Gleason described PFAS as persistent chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive effects and said the Division is preparing a PFAS work plan.

Ending: The Division concluded its presentation and the committee directed staff to follow up on fund-source permissibility and to continue review of the agency's enhancement requests. Luke Drury and KDHE staff indicated they would provide further detail in subsequent briefings.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget 01/29/2025","oneSentenceSummary","KDHE's Division of Environment requested short-term general-fund support and multiple water-implementation enhancements, including a $350,000 hazardous-waste fund stabilization request and $1,000,000 proposals for contamination remediation and watershed work.","taxTitle","Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget, Standing, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative, Kansas","taxId",38043,"location","Kansas","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6362900,"Kansas Water Office outlines 2026 request, highlights $6.3 million in governor enhancements",472,55000,527000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2167213-f4e858249f61548c2ce02636f5fad478&start=55&end=527","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2167213-f4e858249f61548c2ce02636f5fad478/thumbnail_55000.jpg","/articles/6362900/Kansas/Kansas-Water-Office-outlines-2026-request-highlights-63-million-in-governor-enhancements","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6362900-e31fe4d5d1d12a005d7468a1164f871d/orig.mp4?Expires=1771061299&Signature=R1S~cs4SbqjPB7l-Tq5UO7YcX~Ks-u7J8~e62H3xwjV48fMk7N7UL1NDlFB0Jz5yRkKXL3bMGKjX5P1S-h3li~lKx9UazV1u5~k5r~6pLJz7xNXJZrtfqRiSqjnO8R~ajz5rbbwc3~0RGNC~sn4IaiGJdY~GeO7FiWy0lwHbAheAzhNx6PZfCB3ztTMGFQXEnWcVNRn5SkEuIfxQmVW5ig3QxF48zFubBisD-lFBF0y~i8hk3CIRbzdBdAI99OtEU4eHUXb1-sHbR4L0oUqKXgmIjjQhPDAADId0KfjfWpdPB3q0R129hQ6xxTnEjgbbMrPqmqhpLR8S2YzJ51Vpjg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Kansas Water Office told the Legislative Budget Committee on an unspecified date that it expects major changes in fiscal year 2026 driven by new state water plan fund lines created after the 2023 Legislature and by House Bill 2302. Luke Drury, senior fiscal analyst with Legislative Research, told the committee: “These are 2 newer funds that were created by the 2023 legislature.”

The agency's policy and government relations manager, Victoria Ashberry, said the office is requesting 26 positions for fiscal year 2026 and summarized the office's two programs: Water Planning and Implementation and Public Water Supply. Ashberry told the committee Kansas Water Office work includes developing the state water plan and coordinating water resource operations across state and local agencies.

Why this matters: committee members pressed on how the new budget lines will be allocated and whether money was being double-counted across agencies. Chair Mosier and multiple representatives sought a single list of water-related enhancement requests across agencies so the committee can avoid overlap when considering appropriations.

Key items and amounts: Ashberry and staff highlighted that the governor recommended $6,300,000 in State Water Plan Fund enhancements for the Water Office, broken out in the presentation as $2,750,000 for water planning and project development, $3,000,000 for in-lake sediment management, and $550,000 for independent program accountability and evaluation. Ashberry said the in-lake sediment management initiative would pursue either a hydro-suction pilot at John Redmond Reservoir or feasibility studies and long-term sediment plans for reservoirs if suction is not feasible in the first year.

Staff-level adjustments and deletions: Drury noted the Legislative Budget Committee's global recommendation deleted two agency enhancement FTEs the Water Office requested (described in committee materials as a water resource planner and a water conservation support position). Drury also described one-time adjustments related to transfers the Water Office handled after HB 2302 added roughly $18 million in FY2024 state water plan fund revenue that the office passed through to other agencies; Ashberry said future years will show those funds directly appropriated to implementing agencies rather than routed through the Water Office.

Committee questions and next steps: Representatives asked about details of Corps of Engineers operation and maintenance cost estimates, whether specific sediment projects were previously discussed in Department of Agriculture materials, and how the proposed enhancements would be considered by this committee versus appropriations. Chair Mosier requested a consolidated list of each agency's water-related enhancement requests and amounts so the committee can evaluate overlaps before final appropriations.

Ending: The committee closed the Kansas Water Office hearing after questions and moved on to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

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Legislative fiscal staff said the agency had about $5 million in general-fund reappropriations for projects including Flint Hills Trail work and infrastructure at state parks, and that the Legislative Budget Committee deleted $1.9 million from dam repairs in the agency's capital request. Luke Drury noted reappropriated EDIF funds and ARPA awards and explained the LBC's adjustments.

Acting Secretary Kennedy (appearing for the agency) and fiscal staff described multiple federal awards the agency expects to spend across FY2025 and FY2026. Notable items the committee heard include a RAISE (DOT) grant to finish the Flint Hills Trail that will be distributed over the award period, a $4 million endangered-species federal award for whooping-crane and eastern-black-rail recovery work, and federal outdoor recreation grants (about $3.4 million) to support local parks and recreation projects. The agency also reported increased cabin revenue and requested cabin-revenue fund spending for new cabins and camping wagons at several parks.

On fees and fee-supported programs the committee heard the agency anticipates lower wildlife-restoration (Pittman-Robertson) and Dingell-Johnson sport-fish revenues in FY2025 and was planning capital and operating adjustments in response. Drury said the agency deleted roughly $2.2 million from the wildlife fee fund and $1.5 million from park fee funds in FY2025 as part of overall adjustments; he also said the agency added one FTE in administration in the LBC recommendations.

Capital and next steps: fiscal staff reviewed a range of capital projects and noted that the LBC had no recommendation on the agency's building committee capital hearing that day. The committee asked for a park-by-park capital breakdown; fiscal staff said they would request it from the agency for a future meeting.

Ending: With follow-up requested on park capital details and agency officials scheduled to return the next day for additional questions, the committee adjourned.","The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks presented its FY2025 and FY2026 budget materials, describing federal RAISE and Pittman-Robertson awards, ARPA-supported visitor-center projects, and capital items; the Legislative Budget Committee deleted $1.9 million in general-fund dam repairs and trimmed other fee-funded capital.","actionData","errors"]

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KDHE Division of Environment seeks short-term stabilization funding, requests new water-implementation dollars

Kansas Water Office outlines 2026 request, highlights $6.3 million in governor enhancements

Wildlife and Parks details federal grants, ARPA projects and capital requests; LBC trims some dam and park spending