Bill-DEP, Coal Prep
H. B. 2156

(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 prevention and control of air pollution from the operation of coal preparation plants and coal handling operations.

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 twelfth day of August, 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 December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of environmental protection (to prevent and control air pollution from the operation of coal preparation plants and coal handling operations), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to the prevention and control of air pollution from the operation of coal preparation plants and coal handling operations.

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