2026 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources.
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2026 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4207
By Delegate D. Smith
[Introduced January 14, 2026; 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 standards of performance for new stationary sources.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3. Authorization for Department of envirnomental protection to promulgate legislative rules.
§64-3-1. Department of Environmental Protection.
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 23, 2025, authorized under the authority of §22-5-4 of this code, relating to the Department of Environmental Protection (standards of performance for new stationary sources, 45 CSR 16), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.