Senate Bill No. 70
(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 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.