West Virginia Legislature

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 318

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced February 13, 2025; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to water pollution control permit fee schedules.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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 August 29, 2024, authorized under the authority of §22-11-10 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 21, 2024, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (water pollution control permit fee schedules, 47 CSR 26), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to water pollution control permit fee schedules.

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