Bill Text: WV SB312 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DEP rule relating to ambient air quality standards

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - To Judiciary [SB312 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2025-SB312-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 312

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced February 13, 2025; referred

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 ambient air quality standards.

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 August 23, 2024, authorized under the authority of §22-5-4 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (ambient air quality standards, 45 CSR 08), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to ambient air quality standards.

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