Bill Text: WV SB167 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-19 - To Judiciary [SB167 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2015-SB167-Introduced.html

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Senate Bill No. 167

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 14, 2015; referred to the Committee on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 3, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

            That article 3, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

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 August 1, 2014, authorized under the authority of section four, article eleven, chapter twenty-two of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (requirements governing water quality standards, 47 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 Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards.

 

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