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<title>HB 2044</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2044&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Relating to air pollution control</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2062</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2062&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Studying the environmental and health impacts of shale gas development</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2066</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2066&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring the posting of material data safety sheets and documentation of fracking fluid components</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2118</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2118&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2141</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2141&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2143</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2143&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Requiring liners in all new surface coal-waste impoundments and requiring regulations relating to the planning, constructing and maintenance of the liners</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2152</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2152&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2183</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2183&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six months</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2211</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2211&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Imposing advanced recovery fees on consumers for the purchase of electronic devices</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2214</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2214&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Intrastate Coal and Use Act</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2286</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2286&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. area and the federal government about West Virginia coal</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2292</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2292&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2304</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2304&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2347</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2347&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2352</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2352&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Governor 4/25/13, PEND GOV) - Clarifying that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection does not assume a mine operator's obligations or liabilities under the Water Pollution Control Act</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2362</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2362&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Relating to water pollution control</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2406</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2406&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Relating to the Department of Environmental Protection</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2419</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2419&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to dual liner requirements</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2535</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2535&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Creating the "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" and the "Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use Act"</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2571</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2571&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Governor 4/25/13 - House Journal, PEND GOV) - Relating to who may serve as members of the environmental quality board</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2579</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2579&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(House Message received, PASS ) - Revising state water quality standard for Selenium</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2590</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2590&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(House Message received, PASS ) - Creating a public nonprofit corporation and governmental instrumentality to collectively address several environmental and economic development programs</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2593</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2593&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Establishing a water quality-based effluent limit for selenium discharges</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 2862</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2862&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Relating to informal conferences on surface mining permit applications</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3001</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3001&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring a composite soil sampling and testing be performed on the ground area underneath a pit or impoundment after it has been drained</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3031</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3031&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to maintain an Office of Internal Auditing</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3046</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3046&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to issue a procedural rule to allow surface owners a right to a hearing and appeal</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3071</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3071&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3075</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3075&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Permitting the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling mud generated from well sites in solid waste landfills</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3089</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3089&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Health and Human Resources, PEND COMM) - Requiring the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to conduct a public health impact statement</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3124</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3124&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(From Special Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on House Calendar, PEND 3RD) - Relating to floodplain and mudslide area management</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3143</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3143&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Education, PEND COMM) - Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>HB 3153</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3153&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to retailer electronic waste collection</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 14</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=14&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Natural Resources, PEND COMM) - Granting counties and municipalities limited exemption from litter laws</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 19</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=19&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Finance, PEND COMM) - Providing personal income tax credit for recycling service fees</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 50</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=50&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Creating WV Land Stewardship Corporation Act</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 342</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=342&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Creating WV Land Stewardship Corporation Act</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 472</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=472&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Energy, Industry and Mining, PEND COMM) - Implementing state-specific selenium criteria plan</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 563</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=563&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Excluding platinum, gold, silver and palladium from definition of "scrap metal"</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 585</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=585&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Maintaining residential rental property in habitable condition</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 598</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=598&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Qualifying certain NPDES permit holders for Environmental Quality Board membership</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 621</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=621&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring Bureau for Public Health prepare impact statement assessing impact of any new air or water rule proposed by DEP</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 627</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=627&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring certain post-mining land use reclamation utilize Clements State Tree Nursery</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 629</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=629&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Limiting liability of landowners, operators and contractors in water pollution abatement projects</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SB 633</title>
<link>https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=633&amp;year=2013&amp;sessiontype=RS&amp;btype=bill</link>
<description>(To Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Relating to residential community waivers for salvage yard establishment</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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