COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 169

(By Senator Grubb)

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Originating in the Committee on Finance;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.

[Reported February 22, 1994]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section seventeen, article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the division of environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to sewage sludge management.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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

§64-3-17. Division of environmental protection.

(a) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, 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 ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, relating to the division ofenvironmental protection (operator's designation of bona fide future use of oil and gas wells - qualification for inactive status), are authorized.
(b) 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.
(c) 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 (abandoned wells), are authorized.
(d) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the eighteenth 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.
(e) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, relating to the division of environmental protection (underground storage tanks), are authorized.
(f) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the eighteenth 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 (hazardous waste management), are authorized.
(g) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the third day of March, 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 eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the division of environmental protection (groundwater protection act fee schedule), are authorized.
(h) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, 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 twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of environmental protection (sewage sludge management), are authorized with the amendments set forth below:
On page 18 and 19 by striking out all of section six and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
§47-38D-6. Bonding Requirements.
The Director may require a surety bond, deposit or similar instrument in an amount sufficient to cover the cost of future environmental remediation from producers and importers of sewage; and
On page 22 by striking out Table 3.