WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 180

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 13, 2016;
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 3, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 3, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 3. Authorization for department of environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-3-1. Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 31, 2015, authorized under the authority of section four, article eleven, chapter twenty-two, of this code, modified by the Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 24, 2015, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management (requirements governing water quality standards, 47 CSR 2), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.