West Virginia House Bill 4275 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-23 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to clarify, consistent with the federal Water Pollution Control Act, that water quality standards established standards for waters of the state but are not directly enforceable as effluent standards or limitations in permits under the federal Water Pollution Control Act until and unless the director calculates discharge-specific water quality-based effluent limits based on the expected concentrations of pollutants from a discharge point and in the receiving water. The bill declares that the director may not convert water quality standards into effluent limits by simply making compliance with water quality standards a condition of an NPDES permit, but must actually calculate and assign limits on an outlet by outlet basis. The bill also nullifying any rule that requires otherwise.

Making West Virginia's Water Pollution Control Act consistent with the federal Water Pollution Act

Sen. Rupert Phillips [R]	Del. Larry Barker [D]	Sen. Michael Caputo [D]	Del. Kevin Craig [D]
Del. Justin Marcum [D]	Del. Clif Moore [D]	Del. Doug Skaff [D]	Sen. Randy Smith [R]
Del. Linda Sumner [R]	Del. Teddy Tomblin [D]	Del. Harry White [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-23	House	To House Judiciary
2014-01-23	House	Introduced in House
2014-01-23	House	To Judiciary
2014-01-23	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	11	6	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4275&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4275%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=4275