Senate Bill No. 344

(By Senators Ross, Minard,

Snyder, Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 30, 2004; referred to the

Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 3, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the department of environmental protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for source categories pursuant to 40 CFR Part 63.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 3, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-3-1. Division of environmental protection.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirty-first day of July, two thousand three, authorized under the authority of section four, article five, chapter twenty-two, of this code, relating to the division of environmental protection (emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for source categories pursuant to 40 CFR Part 63, 45 CSR 34), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories Pursuant to 40 CFR Part 63.

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