Kansas Statutes 65-1,231. Environmental use control fund
(a) There is established in the state treasury the environmental use control fund. Moneys from the following sources shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the fund:
(1) Moneys collected from the environmental use control one-time payments and long term care agreement reimbursements;
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-1,231
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,175
- Environmental use control: means an institutional or administrative control, a restriction, prohibition or control of one or more uses of, or activities on, a specific property, as requested by the property owner at the time of issuance, to ensure future protection of public health and the environment when environmental contamination which exceeds department standards for unrestricted use remains on the property following the appropriate assessment and/or remedial activities as directed by the department pursuant to the secretary's authority. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,222
- Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,114
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(2) moneys received by the secretary in the form of gifts, grants, reimbursements or appropriations from any source intended to be used for purposes of the fund; and
(3) interest attributable to the investment of moneys in the fund.
(b) Moneys in the environmental use control fund shall be expended only for costs of:
(1) Review of environmental use control applications;
(2) oversight of remedial projects which include an environmental use control as an element of their remedy, including inspections, monitoring and tracking of the environmental use control;
(3) activities performed by the department to address immediate or emergency threats to human health or the environment related to properties subject to environmental use controls;
(4) development, operation and maintenance of the environmental use control tracking system; and
(5) administration and enforcement of the provisions of this act.
(c) On or before the 10th of each month, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the environmental use control fund interest earnings based on:
(1) The average daily balance of moneys in the environmental use control fund for the preceding month; and
(2) the net earnings rate of the pooled money investment portfolio for the preceding month.
(d) All expenditures from the environmental use control fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary or the secretary’s designee for purposes set forth in this section.