Senate Bill No. 181

(By Senator Manchin)

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[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the

Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then

to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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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 director of the office of miners' health, safety and training to promulgate legislative rules relating to standards for certification of blasters for surface coal mines and surface areas of underground coal mines.

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. Director of the office of miners' health, safety and training.

The legislative rules filed in the state register on the thirteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, modified by the director of the office of miners' health, safety and training to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the director of the office of miners' health, safety and training (rules and regulations governing the standards for certification of blasters for surface coal mines and surface areas of underground coal mines), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Director of the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate legislative rules relating to standards for certification of blasters for surface coal mines and surface areas of underground coal mines.

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