Senate Bill No. 765
(By Senators Wooton, Ball, Bowman, Dittmar,
Hunter, Ross, Schoonover, Snyder and Buckalew)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported March 4, 1998.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article eleven, chapter
sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating generally to the
promulgation of administrative rules by the various executive
and administrative agencies; and authorizing certain agencies
to modify certain legislative rules for the limited purpose of
updating and making technical corrections to those legislative
rules.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article eleven, 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 11. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE CODE OF STATE RULES.
§64-11-1. Division of environmental protection, office of oil and
gas.
(a) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, 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 December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to
the division of environmental protection (abandoned wells, 35 CSR
6), is authorized with the following amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(b) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, 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 December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to
the division of environmental protection (coalbed methane wells, 35
CSR 3), is authorized with the following amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(c) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, 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 December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to
the division of environmental protection (designation of future use
and inactive status for oil and gas wells, 35 CSR 5), is authorized
with the following amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(d) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, 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 fifth day
of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, relating to the
division of environmental protection (oil and gas wells and other
wells, 35 CSR 4), is authorized with the following amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);
(e) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, 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 December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to
the division of environmental protection (oil and gas operations -
solid waste, 35 CSR 2), is authorized with the following amendment:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(f) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (dam control, 38 CSR 14), is repealed.
(g) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (certification of gas wells, 38 CSR 16), is repealed.