Bill Text: WV SB166 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DEP rule relating to cross-state air pollution rule to control certain emissions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-04 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 163 [SB166 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2019-SB166-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2019 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 166

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 10, 2019; Referred

to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on 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 cross-state air pollution rule to control annual nitrogen oxides emission, annual sulfur dioxide emissions, and ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions.

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 24, 2018, authorized under the authority of §22-5-4 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (cross-state air pollution rule to control annual nitrogen oxides emission, annual sulfur dioxide emissions, and ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions, 45 CSR 43), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cross-state air pollution rule to control annual nitrogen oxides emission, annual sulfur dioxide emissions, and ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions.

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