WEST virginia Legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 112

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced February 8, 2017; referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to voluntary remediation and redevelopment.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §64-3-1 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.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 25, 2016, authorized under the authority of section three, article twenty-two, chapter twenty-two of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (Voluntary Remediation and Redevelopment, 60 CSR 03), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Voluntary Remediation and Redevelopment.

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