Senate Bill No. 92
(By Senators Manchin, Anderson, Boley,
Grubb and Macnaughtan)
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[Introduced January 20, 1995; referred to the
Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; 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 standards for
certification of blasters-surface coal mines.
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
twenty-second day of July, 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 August,
one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of
environmental protection (standards for certification of
blasters-surface coal mines), are authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division
of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules
relating to the standards for certification of blasters-surface
coal mines.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.