Bill-DEP, Transportation
H. B. 2155
(By Delegates Gallagher, Douglas, Compton,
Linch, Faircloth and Riggs)
(Introduced January 23, 1995; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.)

A BILL to amend chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated article three-b, relating to authorizing the division of environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to requirements for determining conformity of transportation plans, programs and projects developed, funded or approved under title 23 U.S.C. or the federal transit act, to applicable air quality implementation plans.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated article three-b, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 3B. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-3B-1. Division of environmental protection.

The legislative rules filed in the state register on the twelfth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, 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-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of environmental protection (requirements for determining conformity of transportation plans, programs and projects developed, funded or approved under title 23 U.S.C. or the federal transit act, to applicable air quality implementation plans), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to requirements for determining conformity of transportation plans, programs and projects developed, funded or approved under Title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act, to applicable air quality implementation plans.

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