47 CSR 30
H. B. 2642

(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 WV/NPDES rules for coal mining facilities.

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-seventh day of July, two thousand six, authorized under the authority of section four, 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 nineteenth day of January, two thousand seven, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (WV/NPDES rules for coal mining facilities, 47 CSR 30), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to WV/NPDES Rules for Coal Mining Facilities.

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