Bill Text: WV SB16 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DEP rule relating to underground injection control

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-11 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 2 [SB16 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB16-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 16

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; 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 underground injection control.

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 28, 2023, authorized under the authority of §22-11-7a 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 15, 2023, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (underground injection control, 47 CSR 13), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to underground injection control.

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