47 CSR 34
Senate Bill No. 163

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Facemyer)

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[Introduced February 12, 2009; referred to the

Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; then to the Committee on Finance; 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 dam safety.

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 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 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 August, two thousand eight, authorized under the authority of section six, article eighteen, 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 twenty- second day of January, two thousand nine relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (dam safety, 47 CSR 34), is authorized.

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

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