60 CSR 8
H. B. 4187

(By Delegates Mahan, Palumbo, Cann, Pino, Armstead and


Overington)

[Introduced January 27, 2006; referred to the Committee on the


Judiciary.]




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 the Environmental Excellence Program.

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. Department of Environmental Protection.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-ninth day of July, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section four, article twenty-five, chapter twenty-two, of this code, modified by the Department of Environmental Protection to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the eighteenth day of January, two thousand six, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (Environmental Excellence Program, 60 CSR 8), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Environmental Excellence Program.

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