Bill Text: WV SB245 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

West Virginia Senate Bill 245 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to horizontal well development

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - To Judiciary [SB245 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2013-SB245-Introduced.html

35 CSR 8

Senate Bill No. 245

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced February 20, 2013; referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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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 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.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the fourth day of September, two thousand twelve, authorized under the authority of section six, article six-a, 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 fourteenth day of February, two thousand thirteen, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (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 Horizontal Well Development.

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