WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 335
By Senator Maynard
[Introduced January 14, 2020; referred
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 groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations.
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 25, 2019, authorized under the authority of §22-12-5 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations, 38 CSR 02F), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.