Bill Text: WV SB458 | 2022 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Establishing legal right to title of substances derived from drainage on mined lands
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-01 - To Judiciary [SB458 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2022-SB458-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2022 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 458
By Senator Smith, Jeffries, and Hamilton
[Originating in the Committee on Natural Resources; reported on February 1, 2022]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §22-2-10, relating generally to establishing and implementing a program to allow persons treating acid mine drainage at abandoned mine land sites to recover and benefit commercially from valuable and strategically important rare earth elements and critical materials from acid mine drainage; and authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to propose rules to implement the provisions of the section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. ABANDONED MINE LANDS AND RECLAMATION ACT.
§22-2-10. Ownership of substances derived from treatment of acid mine drainage.
The Department of Environmental Protection may propose rules in accordance with the provisions of §29A-3-1 et seq. to carry out and implement the provisions of this section.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.