Bill-DEP, Blasters
H. B. 2148
(By Delegates Gallagher, Douglas Compton,
Linch, Faircloth and Riggs)
(Introduced January 23, 1995; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.)
A BILL to amend chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto
a new article, designated article three-b, relating to
authorizing the division of environmental protection to
promulgate legislative rules relating to the standards for
certification of blasters-surface coal mines.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding
thereto a new article, designated article three-b, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 3B. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-3B-1. Division of environmental protection.
The legislative rules filed in the state register on the
twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four,
modified by the division of environmental protection to meet the
objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and
refiled in the state register on the twenty-ninth day of August, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of
environmental protection (standards for certification of
blasters-surface coal mines), are authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of
Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to
the standards for certification of blasters-surface coal mines.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.