KCC Adopts Consumer Intervenor Compensation Policy
The Kansas Corporation Commission approved a PURPA based policy to reimburse reasonable intervenor expenses in electric utility rate cases. Eligible cases include large Kansas utilities. deadline for existing PURPA related applications is January 5. Applicants must file within 30 days, pass eligibility, and may cross examine and present witnesses if approved. The commission will later audit expenses and determine the amount billable to the utility.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Kansas Corporation Commission
ECC
Supreme Court Rulings Cool Civil Rights Fever
The Supreme Court handed civil libertarians two blows. It allowed prosecutors to seek longer sentences for convicted criminals deemed undersentenced and barred civil rights suits against police if tactics were approved in a prior trial. The rulings split the court 5-4 and 6-3, with ACLU urging opposite outcomes.
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Supreme Court
Washington
American Civil Liberties Union
Eugene DiFrancesco
Rochester
N.Y
DiFrancesco
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Willie McCurry
McCurry
Hospitals at Odds Over Medicaid Hospital Payments
The Kansas Hospital Association challenged SRS proposed rules on Medicaid payments to hospitals, focusing on department by department cost allocations, prospective rate reviews, and hospital grouping. The dispute centers on funding distribution for services to welfare clients, with compromise talks to resume next week.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas Hospital Association
State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
SRS
Nelsonn A. Tilden
Topeka
Hospital Association
Joint Committee On Rules and Regulations
Robert C. Harder
Tilden
Harder
Ron Hein
Rtopeka
Association
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Corps Project Threatens Wildlife in Four States
An Army Corps report estimates restoring 40 percent of habitat damaged by river safety and navigation work on the Missouri River would cost about 2.18 billion dollars. From 1912 to present, erosion and channel straightening wiped out about 475000 acres of wetlands and water domains across Missouri Kansas Iowa and Nebraska. Public hearings and congressional action will determine final funding and scope.
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Kansas City, Mo
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri River
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Kansas City Times
Sioux City
Towa
St. Charles
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Bruce Stebbings
Fish and Wildlife Service
Corps
Congress
State Phone Bill Faces Hike
AP reports Kansas faces a sharp rise in annual telephone costs if Southwestern Bell’s $62.2 million rate request is granted. State telecommunications chief Laurence J. Kunkel estimates the total government bill would reach about $13.5 million yearly, with residential and business rates rising and payphone local calls doubling. The Kansas Corporation Commission nears ruling as hearings proceed.
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Topeka
Kan
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Kansas
Telecommunications
Laurence J. Kunkel
Bell
Kansas Corporation Commission
R. C
Pete’ Loux
Southwestern Bell
Kunkel
KCC
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Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
PURPA
Kansas Power and Light Co
Kansas City Power and Light
Blue Shield of
Burkdoll Brothers
T-Bone i. Ae
Santa
Baxter Mobile Homes Inc
Nita Baxter
Les Graham
Maine
Ottawa, Ks
Ottawa
Gene Boyd
A.P.R
Gene Boyd Ford
Ekellybrody
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