WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2019 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 163

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 10, 2019; Referred

to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 3. Authorization for Department of environmental protection to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-3-1. Department of Environmental Protection.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 24, 2018, authorized under the authority of §22-5-4 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (emission standards for hazardous air pollutants, 45 CSR 34), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants.

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