DEP, Water 47csr10
H. B. 2722
(By Delegates Mahan, Palumbo,
Cann, Pino, Armstead and Overington)
[Introduced February 28, 2005; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend §64-3 of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new
section, designated §1, relating to authorizing the Department
of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to the national pollutant discharge elimination
system(NPDES)program.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §64-3 of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new
section, designated §1, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT TO PROMULGATE
LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-3-1. Department of Environmental Protection.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
twenty-seventh day of August, two thousand four, under the authority of section four, article eleven, chapter twenty-two, of
this code, modified by the Department of Environmental Protection
to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review
committee and refiled in the state register on the sixteenth day of
February, two thousand five, relating to the Department of
Environmental Protection (national pollutant discharge elimination
system(NPDES) Program, 47 CSR 10), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department
of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System(NPDES)Program.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.