Bill-DEP, Hazardous
H. B. 2162

(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 hazardous waste management.

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 fifteenth 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 thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, relating to the division of environmental protection (hazardous waste management regulations), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to hazardous waste management.

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