Kansas Statutes
Article 9 - State Water Resource Planning
82a-927 State water plan; long-range goals.

82a-927. State water plan; long-range goals. The long-range goals and objectives of the state of Kansas for management, conservation and development of the waters of the state, are hereby declared to be:
(a) The development, to meet the anticipated future needs of the people of the state, of sufficient supplies of water for beneficial purposes;
(b) the reduction of damaging floods and of losses resulting from floods;
(c) the protection and the improvement of the quality of the water supplies of the state;
(d) the sound management, both public and private, of the atmospheric, surface, and groundwater supplies of the state;
(e) the prevention of the waste of the water supplies of the state;
(f) the prevention of the pollution of the water supplies of the state;
(g) the efficient, economic distribution of the water supplies of the state;
(h) the sound coordination of the development of the water resources of the state with the development of the other resources of the state; and
(i) the protection of the public interest through the conservation of the water resources of the state in a technologically and economically feasible manner.
History: L. 1965, ch. 558, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 398, § 9; L. 1986, ch. 392, § 4; July 1.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 82a - Waters And Watercourses

Article 9 - State Water Resource Planning

82a-901a Legislative declaration.

82a-902 State water resource planning act; definitions.

82a-903 Same; formulation of state water plan; cooperation of state water agencies; advice of general public.

82a-905 Same; public hearings on state water plan or sections thereof, procedure; approval by Kansas water authority and submission to legislature and governor of plan or sections thereof.

82a-906 State water resource planning act; submission of plan and recommendations to governor and legislature.

82a-907 State water resource planning act; considerations in formulation of state water plan.

82a-910 Same; recommendations to federal agencies as to future water supply storage; agreements with federal government; petition concerning future water supply needs.

82a-911 Same; recommendations of water office for inclusion in state plan of storage features for water supply on federal projects; findings.

82a-913 Same; statement of state costs.

82a-915 State water resource planning act; contracts with federal government relative to release of water from projects or reservoirs, when.

82a-920 Same; projected costs of water management projects.

82a-922 Same; expenditures from appropriations for Kansas water office, procedure.

82a-923 State water plan; rules and regulations.

82a-924 Same; liberal construction.

82a-925 Same; invalidity of part.

82a-927 State water plan; long-range goals.

82a-928 State water plan; policies to achieve long-range goals listed.

82a-929 Same; state responsibility for water.

82a-930 Same; state responsibility to manage water conservation.

82a-931 Same; intergovernmental coordination of planning.

82a-932 Same; Kansas water office to negotiate with federal government, when.

82a-933 Same; providing evidence of need to include storage features.

82a-934 State water plan; agreements with federal government to pay for conservation storage features for water supply; limitations; reimbursement of costs.

82a-941 Same; agencies to perform research related to water resources.

82a-942 Same; United States powers not affected.

82a-943 Same; liberal construction of act.

82a-944 Same; severability.

82a-947 Citation of act.

82a-951 State water plan fund established; expenditures from fund; reports accounting for expenditures from fund.

82a-952 Penalties imposed by K.S.A. 65-170d, 65-171s, 65-3419 and 65-3446 deposited in state water plan fund.

82a-953a Transfers from state general fund to state water plan fund; reductions.

82a-954 Water protection fee imposed; payment, by whom, when; collection by director of taxation; disposition of fees.