Senate Bill No. 66

(By Senators Anderson, Boley,

Grubb, Macnaughtan and Manchin)


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[Introduced January 20, 1995; referred to the

Committee on Natural Resources; then to the

Committee on Finance; and then to the Committee

on the Judiciary.]

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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 emission standards for hazardous air pollutants pursuant to 40 CFR Part 63.

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-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of environmental protection (emission standards for hazardous air pollutants pursuant to 40 CFR Part 63), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants pursuant to 40 CFR Part 63.

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