45 CSR 1

Senate Bill No. 310

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 27, 2006; 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 the Nox Budget Trading Program as a means of the control and reduction of nitrogen oxides from non-electric generating units as a means to mitigate the transport of ozone precursors.

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-second day of March, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section four, article five, chapter twenty-two, of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (Nox Budget Trading Program as a means of the control and reduction of nitrogen oxides from non-electric generating units as a means to mitigate the transport of ozone precursors, 45 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Nox Budget Trading Program as a Means of the Control and Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides from Non-electric Generating Units as a Means to Mitigate the Transport of Ozone Precursors.

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