47 CSR 5A
H. B. 2602

(By Delegates Brown, Miley, Burdiss,

Talbott and Overington)


[Introduced January 29, 2007; 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 individual state certification of activities requiring a federal permit.

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-a, article eleven, chapter twenty-two, of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (individual state certification of activities requiring a federal permit, 47 CSR 5A), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Individual State Certification of Activities Requiring a Federal Permit.

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