Bill-DEP, Oil and Gas
H. B. 2351
(By Delegate Gallagher)
[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
sixteen, relating to authorizing the division of
environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules
relating to an operator's designation of bona fide future
use of oil and gas wells - qualification for inactive
status.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
sixteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, LABOR AND
ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-3-16. Division of environmental protection.
The legislative rules filed in the state register on the
eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one,
modified by the division of environmental protection to meet the
objections of the legislative rule-making review committee andrefiled in the state register on the ninth day of November, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-two, relating to the division of
environmental protection (operator's designation of bona fide
future use of oil and gas wells - qualification for inactive
status), are authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division
of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules
relating to an operator's designation of bona fide future use of
oil and gas wells - qualification for inactive status.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.