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Committee approves KDHE environment reappropriations, backs $1M for contamination remediation and modest drinking‑water restorations
Summary
The panel restored several KDHE reappropriations, approved a $100,000 stream-trash grant, approved $231,000 for drinking-water protection (after rejecting $400,000), and voted 6–5 to add $1,000,000 for contamination remediation from a requested $1.9M enhancement.
The Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee voted to restore most of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s (KDHE) environmental reappropriations and approved a set of targeted enhancements and reinsertions after debate over need and fiscal prudence.
Senator Francisco led a series of recommendations to add back amounts KDHE characterized as spent or encumbered; the committee accepted restoration of most items except two that the agency had initially left out of its first…
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