Senate Bill No. 136

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 8, 2014; referred 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 requirements governing water quality standards.

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 July 26, 2013, 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 November 27, 2013, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (requirements governing water quality standards, 47 CSR 2), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.

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