Senate Bill No. 295
(By Senators Ross, Anderson,
Bowman, Macnaughtan
,
Boley and Buckalew)
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[Introduced January 30, 1998; 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 two, relating to
authorizing the environmental quality board to
promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.
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 two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OE ENVIRONMENT TO
PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-3-2. Environmental quality board.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on
the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-seven, authorized 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
twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-eight, relating to the environmental quality board
(requirements governing water quality standards, 46 CSR
1), is authorized with the amendments set forth below:
On page ten, Subsection 6.2 by striking out the
words "This category includes streams on which the following are located:" and inserting in lieu thereof
"This category consists of only those waters less than
five miles upstream of one of the following surface water
intakes:";
On page fourteen, Subdivision 7.2.b by striking out
the words "trout waters nor";
On pages twenty and twenty-one, by striking out all
of Subsection 8.5;
And,
By deleting Appendix F.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the
Environmental Quality Board to promulgate a legislative
rule relating to Requirements Governing Water Quality
Standards.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.