Senate Bill No. 189

(By Senator Manchin)

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[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the

Committee on Natural Resources; 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 division of environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to underground storage tank assessment fees.

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 theeighteenth 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 (underground storage tank assessment fees), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to underground storage tank assessment fees.

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