Bill-EQB, Water Quality
H. B. 2164


(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 environmental quality board to promulgate legislative rules relating to the requirements governing water quality standards.

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. Environmental quality board.

The legislative rules filed in the state register on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, modified by the environmental quality board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, relating to the environmental quality board (requirements governing water quality standards), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Environmental Quality Board to promulgate legislative rules relating to requirements governing water quality standards.

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