WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4221

By Delegates Foster and Porterfield

[Introduced January 14, 2020; Referred

to the Committee on Energy 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 groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations.

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 25, 2019, authorized under the authority of §22-12-5 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations, 38 CSR 02F), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations.

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