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Panel restores hazardous-waste funding, approves KEIMS upgrade and $2 million in water-protection enhancements for KDHE
Summary
The House appropriations subcommittee restored multiple KDHE line items — including hazardous-waste stabilization and a one-time KEIMS implementation appropriation — and approved three State Water Plan Fund enhancements that together total $2 million for watershed restoration, rural groundwater/septic testing and contamination remediation.
The House appropriations subcommittee restored funding and positions for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) in a series of votes that included hazardous-waste stabilization, a one-time information-technology implementation, and three water-protection enhancements.
Luke Drury, senior VISTA analyst with the Kansas Legislative Research Department, walked the committee through KDHE’s budget materials and noted that several supplemental and enhancement requests — including hazardous-waste and livestock-waste items and FTE changes — had initially been deleted by the Legislative Budget Committee but were before the subcommittee for possible restoration.
Representative Long moved to restore $350,000 in the State General Fund for KDHE’s hazardous-waste management program for FY2025; Representative Smith seconded and the motion carried on a voice vote. The committee…
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