Bill Text: WV HB2643 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-14 - Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2640 [HB2643 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2023-HB2643-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2643

BY Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 17, 2023; Referred to the Committee on Energy and Manufacturing 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 control of 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 21, 2022, authorized under the authority of §22-5-4 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 September 16, 2022, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (control of ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions, 45 CSR 40), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions.

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