West Virginia House Bill 4426 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-05 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of Environmental Protection to issue water pollution control permits that contain water quality-based net limits; to allow the setting of storm water benchmarks that are no more stringent than water quality standards; to allow use of a mixing zone for storm water discharges; to prohibit benchmarks and permit limits where natural quality is lower than water quality criteria; to allow permittees to demonstrate that discharges of storm water in excess of water quality standards will not cause mortality to aquatic life; to allow submission of discharge monitoring reports on the 28th day of the month following the monitoring period; and to specify facility changes that do not require major modifications. This amendment shall be known as the “Storm water, Netting and Permitting Act of 2018”.

Relating to the Department of Environmental Protection

Del. Jason Harshbarger [R]	Del. John Kelly [R]	Del. Steve Westfall [R]	Del. Jim Butler [R]
Del. Anthony Paynter [R]	Del. Roger Hanshaw [R]	Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]	Del. Geoff Foster [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-05	House	To House Judiciary
2018-02-05	House	Introduced in House
2018-02-05	House	To Judiciary
2018-02-05	House	Filed for introduction

SB290 (Similar To) 2018-04-23 - Chapter 85, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	11	6	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4426&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4426%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4426