West Virginia Legislature
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4039
By Delegate Smith
[Introduced January 10, 2024; 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 underground injection control.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2023, authorized under the authority of §22-11-7a 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 September 15, 2023, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (underground injection control, 47 CSR 13), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to underground injection control.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.