HB0212 • 2007

Water quality-watershed permits.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; clarifying general watershed permits relating to coal bed methane production; and providing for an effective date.

Water

Did Not Pass

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Sponsor: Representative Brown
Last action: 2007-03-01
Official status: inactive
Effective date: Not listed

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Amendments

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HB0212H3001

3rd reading • BROWN

Withdrawn

Plain English: Withdrawn 3rd reading by BROWN

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Bill History

2007-03-01 Wyoming Legislature
Died In Committee
2007-02-07 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S09; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff
2007-02-05 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2007-02-05 House
H Passed 3rd Reading
2007-02-02 House
H Passed 2nd Reading
2007-02-01 House
H Passed CoW
2007-01-24 House
H Placed on General File
2007-01-24 House
H09 Recommended Do Pass
2007-01-17 House
H Introduced and Referred to H09
2007-01-16 House
H Received for Introduction
2007-01-15 LSO
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WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0538

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0212

Water quality-watershed permits.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Brown and Childers and Senator(s)
Jennings
and Townsend

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
environmental quality; clarifying general watershed permits relating to coal bed methane production;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 35
‑
11
‑
302(a)(v) is amended to read:

35-11-302.

Administrator's authority to recommend standards, rules, regulations or permits.

(a)

The administrator, after receiving public comment and after consultation with the advisory board, shall recommend to the director rules, regulations, standards and permit systems to promote the purposes of this act. Such rules, regulations, standards and permit systems shall prescribe:

(v)

Standards for the issuance of permits as authorized pursuant to section 402(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended in 1972, and as it may be hereafter amended
, including watershed general permits for surface discharges related to coal bed methane production
;

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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