ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 765
(By Senators Wooton, Ball, Bowman, Dittmar,
Hunter, Ross, Schoonover, Snyder and Buckalew)
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[Passed March 10, 1998; in effect from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section one, article eleven, chapter
sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating generally to the
promulgation of administrative rules by the various executive
and administrative agencies; and authorizing certain agencies
to modify certain legislative rules for the limited purpose of
updating and making technical corrections to those legislative
rules.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article eleven, chapter sixty-four of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 11. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE CODE OF STATE RULES.
§64-11-1. Division of environmental protection, office of oil and
gas.
(a) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (abandoned wells, 38 CSR 22, renumbered as 35 CSR 6), is
authorized with the following amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(b) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
first day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, authorized
under the authority of section two, article six, chapter twenty-two
of this code, relating to the division of environmental protection
(coalbed methane wells, 38 CSR 23, renumbered as 35 CSR 3), is
authorized with the following amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(c) The legislative rule filed the first day of July, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-three, authorized under the authority
of section two, article six, chapter twenty-two of this code,
relating to the division of environmental protection (designation
of future use and inactive status for oil and gas wells, 38 CSR 21, renumbered as 35 CSR 5), is authorized with the following
amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(d) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (oil and gas wells and other wells, 38 CSR 18,
renumbered as 35 CSR 4), is authorized with the following
amendments:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(e) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred eighty-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (oil and gas operations - solid waste, 38 CSR 12,
renumbered as 35 CSR 2), is authorized with the following amendment:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(f) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
first day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, authorized
under the authority of section two, article six, chapter twenty-two
of this code, relating to the division of environmental protection
(miscellaneous Water Pollution Control 38 CSR 11, renumbered as 35
CSR 1), is authorized with the following amendment:
"Beginning on page 1, and continuing throughout the text of
the rule, by renumbering the text breakdown as necessary to conform
with the rule of the secretary of state relating to format
(standard size and format for rules and procedures for publication
of the state register or parts of the state register, 153 CSR 6);"
(g) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter
twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (dam control, 38 CSR 14), is repealed.
(h) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven,
authorized under the authority of section two, article six, chapter twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of environmental
protection (certification of gas wells, 38 CSR 16), is repealed.