House 2236

West Virginia Legislature

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2236

BY Delegate D. Smith

Introduced February 12, 2025; referred to the Committee on Energy and Public Works

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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 August 29, 2024, authorized under the authority of §22-11-4 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 November 21, 2024, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (requirements governing water quality standards, 47 CSR 02), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.

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