Senate Bill No. 101
(By Senators Lucht, Withers and Macnaughtan)
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[Introduced February 22, 1993; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section four, article five-b, chapter
twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to designating
Lost/Cacapon and North rivers for protection as natural
streams.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section four, article five-b, chapter twenty of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5B. NATURAL STREAMS PRESERVATION ACT.
§20-5B-4. Designation of protected streams.
The following streams are hereby designated as protected
streams within the natural streams preservation system, namely:
(a) Greenbrier River from its confluence with Knapps Creek
to its confluence with the New River.
(b) Anthony Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with
the Greenbrier River.
(c) Cranberry River from its headwaters to its confluence
with the Gauley River.
(d) Birch River from the Cora Brown bridge in Nicholas
County to the confluence of the river with the Elk River.
(e) New River from its confluence with the Gauley River to
its confluence with the Greenbrier River.
(f) Lost/Cacapon River from its headwaters to its confluence
with the Potomac River.
(g) North River from its headwaters to its confluence with
the Cacapon River.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to designate Lost/Cacapon
and North rivers as protected streams within the natural streams
preservation system.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.
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