60 CSR 5
Senate Bill No. 255

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger and Boley)

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[Introduced January 26, 2007; referred to the

Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; then to the Committee on Natural Resources; 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 antidegradation implementation procedures.

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-eighth day of July, two thousand six, authorized under the authority of section seven-b, article eleven, 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 eighth day of January, two thousand seven, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (antidegradation implementation procedures, 60 CSR 5), is authorized.

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

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