Senate Bill No. 101

(By Senators Lucht, Withers and Macnaughtan)

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[Introduced February 22, 1993; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section four, article five-b, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to designating Lost/Cacapon and North rivers for protection as natural streams.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section four, article five-b, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5B. NATURAL STREAMS PRESERVATION ACT.

§20-5B-4. Designation of protected streams.

The following streams are hereby designated as protected streams within the natural streams preservation system, namely:
(a) Greenbrier River from its confluence with Knapps Creek to its confluence with the New River.
(b) Anthony Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with the Greenbrier River.
(c) Cranberry River from its headwaters to its confluence with the Gauley River.
(d) Birch River from the Cora Brown bridge in Nicholas County to the confluence of the river with the Elk River.
(e) New River from its confluence with the Gauley River to its confluence with the Greenbrier River.
(f) Lost/Cacapon River from its headwaters to its confluence with the Potomac River.
(g) North River from its headwaters to its confluence with the Cacapon River.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to designate Lost/Cacapon and North rivers as protected streams within the natural streams preservation system.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.