WEST virginia Legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 179

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 13, 2016;
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 3, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection, Oil and Gas, to promulgate a legislative rule relating to horizontal well development.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 3, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

 ARTICLE 3. Authorization for Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-3-1. Department of Environmental Protection, Oil and Gas.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 31, 2015, authorized under the authority of section six, article six-a, chapter twenty-two, of this code, modified by the Department of Environmental Protection, Oil and Gas to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 23, 2015 relating to the Department of Environmental Protection, Oil and Gas (horizontal well development, 35 CSR 8), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection,  to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Oil and Gas Horizontal Well Development.

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