Senate Bill No. 226

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Boley,

Buckalew, Grubb and Macnaughtan)


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[Introduced January 29, 1996; referred to the

Committee on Natural Resources;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the solid waste management board to promulgate legislative rules relating to the development of comprehensive litter and solid waste control plans.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section two, 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 BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-3-2. Environmental boards.

(a) The legislative rules filed by the environmental quality board in the state register on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, under the authority of section four, article three, chapter twenty-two-b of this code, modified by the environmental quality board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, relating to the division of environmental protection (requirements governing water quality standards, 46 CSR 1), are authorized.
(b) The legislative rules filed by the solid waste management board in the state register on the fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, under the authority of section six, article three, chapter twenty-two-c of this code, relating to the solid waste management board (regulating for the disbursement of grants to solid waste authorities, 54 CSR 5), are authorized.
(c) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, authorized under the authority of section six, article three, chapter twenty-two-c, of this code, modified by the solid waste management board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, relating to the solid waste management board (development of comprehensive litter and solid waste control plans, 54 CSR 3), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Solid Waste Management Board to promulgate legislative rules relating to the development of comprehensive litter and solid waste control plans.

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