West Virginia House Bill 4285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 24 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-24 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to amend the Water Resources Protection and Management Act to incorporate recommendations from the state Water Resources Management Plan (Plan). Those recommendations include: Changing the definition of a large quantity user to a person who uses at least 300,000 gallons of water in any thirty-day period; Requiring large quantity users to report actual water withdrawals or usage for a calendar year on an annual basis; Requiring any agency that contributes to funding the stream gage network to notify the commission and the United States Geological Survey if the agency cannot maintain its level of funding; Requiring drilling contractors or well owners to report the depth to groundwater of drilled wells; adopting the Plan; and Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to report annually to the commission on the implementation of the plan and survey results. The bill also requires registration of existing aboveground storage tanks and directs the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to develop a program to regulate new and existing aboveground storage tanks.

Amending the Water Resources Protection and Management Act to incorporate recommendations from the state Water Resources Management Plan

Del. Michael Manypenny [D]	Del. Don Perdue [D]	Sen. Bill Hamilton [R]	Sen. Jason Barrett [R]
Del. George Ambler [R]	Del. Timothy Manchin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-24	House	To House Judiciary
2014-01-24	House	Introduced in House
2014-01-24	House	To Judiciary then Finance
2014-01-24	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	26	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	26	10	New Code	See Bill Text
22	26	11	New Code	See Bill Text
22	26	12	New Code	See Bill Text
22	26	13	New Code	See Bill Text
22	26	14	New Code	See Bill Text
22	26	15	New Code	See Bill Text
22	26	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	26	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	26	5	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	26	6	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	26	7	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	26	8	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4285&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4285%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=4285