Bill Text: WV HB4085 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to West Virginia surface mining reclamation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-02 - To House Judiciary [HB4085 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB4085-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2018 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4085

BY Delegates Sobonya and Frich

[Introduced January 15, 2018; Referred

to the Committee on Energy 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 West Virginia surface mining reclamation.

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 27, 2017, authorized under the authority of §22-3-13 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 December 5, 2017, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (West Virginia surface mining reclamation, 38 CSR 2), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia surface mining reclamation.

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