Kentucky House Bill 421 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-24 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Pending: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of subchapter 16 of KRS Chapter 224 to exempt coal mines and coal alteration facilities that mine or alter coal in Kentucky for use exclusively within the Commonwealth from requirements of the Clean Water Act; declare authority for the Act; define terms; name the cabinet as the principal regulator of business activity relating to the mining or alteration of coal within the Commonwealth; direct the cabinet to certify coal mines and alteration facilities that produce or alter coal in Kentucky for use exclusively within the Commonwealth; direct the cabinet to keep coal samples from mines and alteration facilities to verify that Kentucky is the origin of the coal produced or altered; declare that United States Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority to deny operation permits for certified coal mines or alteration facilities that make products that do not travel in interstate commerce; limit the application of the Act to the issuance of permits of operation required under the Clean Water Act.

AN ACT relating to intrastate coal use.

Rep. Jim Gooch [R]

Rep. Ben Waide [R]

Rep. Addia Wuchner [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-24		recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2011-02-18		floor amendment (1) filed
2011-02-18		2nd reading, to Rules
2011-02-17		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2011-02-14		posted in committee
2011-02-10		to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
2011-02-09		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB421.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB421/bill.doc