Bill-DEP, O & G Wells









A BILL to amend article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section sixteen, relating to authorizing the division of environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to oil and gas wells and other wells.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section sixteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-3-16. Division of environmental protection.
The legislative rules filed in the state register on the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, modified by the division of environmental protection to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the nineteenth day of February,one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the division of environmental protection (oil and gas wells and other wells), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to oil and gas wells and other wells.

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