Bill Text: WV HB2647 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to reclamation of solar and wind electricity generating facilities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-14 - Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2640 [HB2647 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2023-HB2647-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2647

BY Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 17, 2023; Referred to the Committee on Energy and Manufacturing then 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 reclamation of solar and wind electricity generating facilities.

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 July 29, 2022, authorized under the authority of §22-32-7 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (reclamation of solar and wind electricity generating facilities, 60 CSR 11), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to reclamation of solar and wind electricity generating facilities.

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