45 CSR 39

Senate Bill No. 317

(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 control of annual nitrogen oxide emissions to mitigate interstate transport of fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides.

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 five, chapter twenty-two, of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (control of annual nitrogen oxide emissions to mitigate interstate transport of fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, 45 CSR 39), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Control of Annual Nitrogen Oxide Emissions to Mitigate Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Nitrogen Oxides.

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