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(By Senators M. Hall, Blair, Carmichael, Facemire,
D. Hall, Kirkendoll, Mullins, Plymale, Romano,
Trump, Woelfel, Williams and Stollings)
reported February 25, 2015.]
A BILL to repeal §22-31-3, §22-31-4, §22-31-5, §22-31-6, §22-31-7, §22-31-8, §22-31-9, §22-31-10, §22-31-11 and §22-31-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated, §16-1-9f; to amend and reenact §22-30-2, §22-30-3, §22-30-4, §22-30-5, §22-30-6, §22-30-7, §22-30-8, §22-30-9, §22-30-10, §22-30-11, §22-30-12, §22-30-13, §22-30-14, §22-30-15, §22-30-16, §22-30-17, §22-30-18, §22-30-19, §22-30-21, §22-30-22, §22-30-24 and §22-30-25 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §22-30-26; and to amend and reenact §22-31-2 of said code, all relating to protection of water resources and public health generally; amending the Aboveground Storage Tank Act; defining terms; requiring secretary to compile inventory of aboveground storage tanks in the state; requiring registration; authorizing certain fees; authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to propose emergency and legislative rules; creating alternative regulatory program to allow permitted and otherwise regulated entities to compel permits and plans to accomplish tank and secondary containment standards under existing programs; requiring secretary to develop regulatory program for tanks; creating a zone of peripheral concern for some; creating certain exemptions to regulation; providing factors to be considered in a program; requiring inspection and certification of tanks; requiring evidence of financial responsibility; requiring corrective action and plans; requiring spill prevention response plans; requiring notice of type and quantity of fluids stored in tanks to local water utilities and governments; requiring posting of signs at or near tanks; creating an administrative fund; creating Protect Our Water Fund; authorizing public access to certain information; authorizing inspections, monitoring and testing by secretary; authorizing secretary to issue administrative orders and seek injunctive relief; providing for civil and criminal penalties; allowing appeals to Environmental Quality Board; prohibiting duplicative enforcement; requiring interagency coordination; establishing duties of secretary upon imminent and substantial danger; providing additional duties and powers of secretary generally; providing for waiver of certain requirements; authorizing secretary to require individual NPDES permits; authorizing Secretary of Department of Health and Human Resources to inventory potential sources of significant contamination; membership of study commission; scope of study; and establishing reporting requirements.
That §22-31-3, §22-31-4, §22-31-5, §22-31-6, §22-31-7, §22-31-8, §22-31-9, §22-31-1 §22-31-11 and §22-31-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be repealed; that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-1-9f; that §22-30-2, §22-30-3, §22-30-4, §22-30-5, §22-30-6, §22-30-7, §22-30-8, §22-30-9, §22-30-10, §22-30-11, §22-30-12, §22-30-13, §22-30-14, §22-30-15, §22-30-16, §22-30-17, §22-30-18, §22-30-19, §22-30-21, §22-30-22, §22-30-24 and §22-30-25 of said code be amended and reenacted; that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §22-30-26; and that §22-31-2 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. STATE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM
(a) The secretary, working in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, shall compile an inventory of all potential sources of significant contamination contained within a public water system’s zone of critical concern and identify those that are not currently permitted or subject to regulation by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection under one or more articles of chapter twenty-two of this code. In compiling the inventory, the secretary shall use information provided in the registrations submitted pursuant to section four, article thirty, chapter twenty-two of this code, information provided to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management pursuant to section 312 of the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and other information available to the agency.
(c) The West Virginia Legislature further finds it in the public policy of the state is that clean, uncontaminated water be available to its businesses and industries that rely on water for their economic survival pursuits and the well-being of their employees. These include hospitals and the medical industry, schools and educational institutions, the food and hospitality industries, the tourism industry, manufacturing, coal, natural gas and other industries. Businesses and industries searching for places to locate or relocate consider the quality of life for their employees as well as the quality of the raw materials such as clean water.
(1) "Aboveground storage tank" or "tank" or “AST” means a device made to contain an accumulation of more than one thousand three hundred twenty gallons of fluids that are liquids liquid at standard temperature and pressure, which is constructed primarily of noncarbon nonearthen materials, including wood, concrete, steel, plastic or fiberglass reinforced plastic, which provide structural support, more than ninety percent of the capacity of which is above the surface of the ground, but does not include any process vessel and includes all ancillary pipes and dispensing systems up to the first point of isolation. The term includes stationary devices which are permanently affixed, and mobile devices which remain in one location on a continuous basis for three hundred sixty-five or more days. A device meeting this definition containing hazardous waste subject to regulation under 40 C. F. R. Parts 264 and 265, exclusive of tanks subject to regulation under 40 C. F. R. § 265.201 is included in this definition but is not a regulated tank. and includes all ancillary aboveground pipes and dispensing systems up to the first point of isolation and all ancillary underground pipes and dispensing systems connected to the aboveground containers to the first point of isolation Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, shipping containers, including railroad freight cars, the following categories of devices are not subject to the provisions of this article:
(A) Shipping containers that are subject to state or federal laws or regulations governing the transportation of hazardous materials, including, but not limited to, railroad freight cars subject to federal regulation under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, 49 U. S. C. §§20101-2015, as amended, including, but not limited to, federal regulations promulgated thereunder at 49 CFR 172, 173 or 174, or subject to other federal law governing the transportation of hazardous materials are not subject to any provision of this article or of article thirty-one of this chapter. 49 C. F. R. Parts 172, 173 or 174;
(B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, barges Barges or boats subject to federal regulation under the United States Coast Guard, United States Department of Homeland Security, including, but not limited to, federal regulations promulgated at 33 CFR 1, et seq, 33 C. F. R. 1, et seq. or subject to other federal law governing the transportation of hazardous materials. are not subject to any provision of this article or of article thirty-one of this chapter;
(3) “First point of isolation” means the valve, pump, dispenser or other device or equipment on or nearest to the tank where the flow of fluids into or out of the tank may be shut off manually or where it automatically shuts off in the event of a pipe or tank failure.
(3) (4) "Nonoperational storage tank" means an empty aboveground storage tank in which fluids will not be deposited or from which fluids will not be dispensed on or after the effective date of this article.
(4) (5) "Operator" means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of an aboveground storage tank.
(5) (6) "Owner" means a person who holds title to, controls or owns an interest in an aboveground storage tank, including owners of tanks the owner immediately preceding the discontinuation of a tank's its use. "Owner" does not mean a person who holds an interest in a tank for financial security unless the holder has taken possession of and operated the tank.
(6) (7) "Person", "persons" or "people" means any individual, trust, firm, owner, operator, corporation or other legal entity, including the United States government, an interstate commission or other body, the state or any agency, board, bureau, office, department or political subdivision of the state, but does not include the Department of Environmental Protection.
(8) "Public groundwater supply source" means a primary source of water supply for a public water system which is directly drawn from a well, underground stream, underground reservoir, underground mine or other primary sources of water supplies which is are found underneath the surface of the state.
(12) (13) “Regulated level 1 aboveground storage tank” or “level 1 regulated tank” means:
(B) An AST that contains substances defined in section 101(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) as a “hazardous substance” (42 U. S. C. § 9601(14)); or is on EPA’s “Consolidated List of Chemicals Subject to the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), CERCLA, and §112(r) of the Clean Air Act (CAA)” (known as “the List of Lists”) as provided by 40 C. F. R. §§ 355, 372, 302, and 68) in a concentration of one percent or greater , regardless of the AST’s location, except ASTs containing petroleum are not “level 1 regulated tanks” based solely upon containing constituents recorded on the CERCLA lists; or,
(14) “Regulated level 2 aboveground storage tank” or “level 2 regulated tank” means an AST that is located within a zone of peripheral concern that is not a level 1 regulated tank.
(15) “Regulated aboveground storage tank” or “regulated tank” means an AST that meets the definition of a level 1 or level 2 regulated tank.(12) (16) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, or leaching or disposing of fluids from an aboveground storage tank into groundwater, surface water or the waters of the state or escaping from secondary containment. subsurface soils. The term shall also include spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, or leaching or disposing of fluids from an aboveground storage tank into a containment structure. or facility that poses an immediate threat of contamination of the soils, subsurface soils, surface water or groundwater: Provided, That the overfill or spillage of up to twenty gallons of fluid during the loading or unloading of liquids shall not be required to be reported if the overflow or spillage is wholly contained within a containment structure or facility, it is promptly cleaned up and no portion of the overfill or spillage escapes onto the ground or into adjacent surface water.
(13) (17) "Secondary containment" means a safeguard applied to one or more aboveground storage tanks that prevents the discharge into the waters of the state of the entire capacity of the largest single tank and sufficient freeboard to contain precipitation. In order to qualify as secondary containment, the barrier and containment field must be sufficiently impervious to contain fluids in the event of a release, and may include double-walled tanks, dikes, containment curbs, pits or drainage trench enclosures that safely confine the release from a tank in a facility catchment basin or holding pond. Earthen dikes and similar containment structures must be designed and constructed to contain, for a minimum of seventy-two hours, fluid that escapes from a tank.
(14) (18) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, or his or her designee.
(15) (19) "Source water protection area" for a public groundwater supply source is the area within an aquifer that supplies water to a public water supply well within a five-year time-of-travel, and is determined by the mathematical calculation of the locations from which a drop of water placed at the edge of the protection area would theoretically take five years to reach the well.
(16) (20) "Zone of critical concern" for a public surface water supply source and for a public surface water influenced groundwater supply source is a corridor along streams within a watershed that warrants more detailed scrutiny due to its proximity to the surface water intake and the intake's susceptibility to potential contaminants within that corridor. The zone of critical concern is determined using a mathematical model that accounts for stream flows, gradient and area topography. The length of the zone of critical concern is based on a five-hour time-of-travel of water in the streams to the water intake, plus an additional one-fourth mile below the water intake. The width of the zone of critical concern is one thousand feet measured horizontally from each bank of the principal stream and five hundred feet measured horizontally from each bank of the tributaries draining into the principal stream.
(21) “Zone of peripheral concern” for a public surface water supply source and for a public surface water influenced groundwater supply source is a corridor along streams within a watershed that warrants scrutiny due to its proximity to the surface water intake and the intake’s susceptibility to potential contaminants within that corridor. The zone of peripheral concern is determined using a mathematical model that accounts for stream flows, gradient and area topography. The length of the zone of peripheral concern is based on an additional five-hour time-of-travel of water in the streams beyond the perimeter of the zone of critical concern, which creates a protection zone of ten hours above the water intake. The width of the zone of peripheral concern is one thousand feet measured horizontally from each bank of the principal stream and five hundred feet measured horizontally from each bank of the tributaries draining into the principal stream.
(b) (c) At a minimum, the inventory registration form shall identify the ownership of the tank, tank location, date of installation if known, type of construction, capacity and age of the tank, the type and volume of fluid stored therein, and the identity of and distance to the nearest groundwater public water supply intake and/or nearest surface water downstream public water supply intake. and the circumstances under which the registration must be updated.
(c) If the inventoried registered tank is regulated under any existing state or federal regulatory program, the owner of the tank shall be required to provide the identifying number of any license, registration or permit issued for the tank and identify the regulatory standards and requirements the tank is required to meet.
(f) (d) The secretary may charge a reasonable fee to cover the cost of maintaining and overseeing the inventory and registration program. The fee may be set by emergency and legislative rules proposed for promulgation in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code. The Secretary shall charge a registration fee of $40 per tank for all ASTs in service prior to July 1, 2015. The registration fee for ASTs placed into service on or after July 1, 2015, shall be $20 per tank. Registration fees for ASTs in service prior to July 1, 2015, shall be deposited such that half the amount is placed into the AST Administrative Fund and half the amount into the Protect Our Water Fund. Registration fees for ASTs placed into service on or after July 1, 2015, shall be deposited wholly into the AST Administrative Fund.
(g) (e) On and after October 1, 2014 After July 1, 2015, it shall be unlawful for any owner or operator to operate or use an aboveground storage tank subject to this article which that has not been properly registered or for which any applicable registration fee has not been paid. \\
(9) A procedure for the administrative resolution of violations including the assessment of administrative civil penalties;
(c) For those entities that are otherwise regulated under those provisions of this chapter that necessitate individual, site-specific permits or plans that require appropriate containment and diversionary structures or equipment to prevent discharged or released materials from reaching the waters of the state, the secretary may amend those permits or plans associated with those permits or both at the request of the permittee to include conditions pertaining to the management and control of regulated tanks, so long as those conditions in the opinion of the secretary are sufficient in combination with practices and protections already in place to protect the waters of the state. In its application for permit or plan modification, the permittee shall advise the secretary whether, how and to what extent the permittee adheres to other standards or plans with regard to tank and secondary containment integrity, inspection and spill prevention and response, including, without limitation, API 653 standards for Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration and Reconstruction or STI SP001 Standards for Aboveground Storage Tanks or the requirements of the federal spill prevention and countermeasures program governed by 40 C. F. R. Part 112. Inclusion of ASTs in amended permits or plans would not relieve the owner or operator’s responsibility to pay registration, certificate to operate or Protect Our Water Fund fees. Specifically, the permits or plans the secretary may amend include:
(a) Every owner or operator of an Each regulated aboveground storage tank regulated herein shall have an annual inspection of each tank performed and its associated secondary containment structure shall be evaluated by a qualified registered professional engineer or a qualified person working under the direct supervision of a registered professional engineer, regulated and licensed by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, or by an individual certified to perform tank inspections by the American Petroleum Institute or the Steel Tank Institute, or by a person holding certification under another program approved by the secretary.
(b) Every owner or operator shall submit on a form prescribed by the secretary, a certification from the engineer that each regulated tank and its associated equipment, leak detection system and secondary containment structure have been evaluated by a qualified person as set forth in subsection (a) of this section and meets the minimum standards established by in accordance with section five of this article or by the secretary by rule.
The secretary shall promulgate rules requiring owners and operators of regulated aboveground storage tanks to provide evidence of adequate financial resources to undertake reasonable corrective action for releases of fluid from regulated aboveground storage tanks based on factors including the location, contents and size of the tanks. The means of demonstrating adequate financial responsibility may include, but not be limited to, providing evidence of current insurance, guarantee, surety bond, letter of credit, proof of assets, trust fund or qualification as a self insurer. The secretary may determine which bonds and other guarantees of performance provided to the secretary pursuant to other articles of this chapter shall satisfy the requirements of this section.
(a) Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this article, each owner or operator of an regulated aboveground storage tank shall submit to the secretary a spill prevention and response plan for each all regulated aboveground storage tank tanks at a facility or location. Owners and operators of regulated aboveground storage tanks shall file updated plans required to be submitted by this section no less frequently than every three five years. Each plan shall be site-specific, consistent with the requirements of this article, and developed in consultation with Bureau for Public Health, county and municipal emergency management agencies. The spill prevention and response plan shall at a minimum:
(1) Identify and describe Describe the activity that occurs at the site and identify applicable hazard and process information, including a specific listing and provide an inventory of all the types and amounts of fluids stored amount of fluids stored and wastes generated that are stored in regulated aboveground storage tanks at the facility. The plan shall include provide a reference to the location of the material safety data sheets (MSDS) required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for all fluids in use or stored in regulated aboveground storage tanks at the facility. The material safety data sheets must include the health hazard number identified by the National Fire Protection Association. The plan shall also include drawings of the aboveground storage tank facility, including the locations of all drainage pipes and water outlets;
(2) Identify all facility-related positions with duties and responsibilities for developing, implementing and maintaining the facility's plan. The plan shall describe in detail the chain of command at the aboveground storage tank facility overseeing the implementation of the facility’s plan and list all facility emergency coordinators; and all known emergency response contractors;
(4) Details Describe the specific general release response procedures that the aboveground storage tank facility and contract emergency personnel shall take employ upon the occurrence of any release; of fluids from an aboveground storage tank at the facility,
(5) Provide contact information obtained by the owner or operator of the aboveground storage tanks from for the state, county and municipal emergency management agencies and the nearest downstream public water supply intake, and designate the person or persons to be notified in the event of a release from an regulated aboveground storage tank that could reach waters of the state; and
(6) Provide the secretary with any all other requested information he or she may reasonably request.
(b) Each owner of an regulated aboveground storage tank with an approved spill prevention and response plan shall submit to the secretary a revised plan or addendum to the plan in accordance with the requirements of this article if any of the following occur:
(1) There is a substantial modification in design, construction, operation or maintenance of any regulated aboveground storage tank or associated equipment, secondary containment or leak detection equipment or methods, or there are other circumstances that increase the potential for fires, explosions or releases of fluids;
(6) Other circumstances occur about for which the secretary requests an update.
(c) The secretary shall approve the spill prevention and response plan or reject the plan and require modifications as may be necessary and reasonable to assure the protection of the source water of a public water system from a release of fluids from an regulated aboveground storage tank. If rejected, the owner or operator of the regulated aboveground storage tank shall submit a revised plan to the secretary for approval within thirty days of receipt of notification of the secretary's decision. Failure to comply with a plan approved by the secretary pursuant to this section is a violation of this article.
(d) (e) Nothing contained in this section relieves the owner or operator of an aboveground storage tank from his or her obligation to report any release immediately to the department's emergency notification telephone number in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the rules promulgated thereunder.
(a) The owner or operator of an regulated aboveground storage tank facility shall provide, as required by the secretary public notice to any public water system where the facility is located within the system's identified groundwater supply's or within the system's surface water supply's zone of critical protection, to the local municipality, if any, and to the county in which the facility is located. The notice shall provide a detailed inventory and subject to the protections afforded in section fourteen of this article, notice to the applicable public water system and to state, county and municipal emergency response organizations of the type and quantity of fluid stored in the regulated aboveground storage tanks at the facility and the location of the material safety data sheets (MSDS) associated with the fluids in storage. The owner or operator shall also provide as required by the secretary a copy of the spill prevention response plan and any updates thereto, which have been approved by the secretary pursuant to this act, to the applicable public water systems and county and municipal emergency management agencies.
(a) The secretary shall collect annual a registration fees from owners or operators of each aboveground storage tank as set forth in section four of this article and an annual operating fee for each regulated aboveground tank in an amount to be promulgated in the legislative rules authorized by this article, to be used by the secretary in an amount sufficient to defray the costs of administering this article. All registration and operation permit fees and the net proceeds of all fines, penalties and forfeitures collected under this article, including accrued interest, shall be paid into a special revenue account, hereby created within the State Treasury, designated the Aboveground Storage Tank Administrative Fund.
(a) Each owner or operator of an a regulated aboveground storage tank located in this state shall pay an annual fee to establish a fund to assure adequate response to leaking releases from aboveground storage tanks. The amount of fees assessed pursuant to this section shall be set forth by rule. The fees must be sufficient to cover the regulatory oversight and services to be provided by designated agencies, including necessary technical and administrative personnel. The proceeds of the assessment shall be paid into a special revenue account, hereby created within the State Treasury, designated the Protect Our Water Fund” The fund shall be administered by the secretary. Expenditures from the fund shall be solely to respond to leaking releases from aboveground storage tanks. and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twelve of this code and upon the fulfillment of the provisions set forth in article two, chapter eleven-b of this code: Provided, That for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2014 and 2015, expenditures are authorized from collections rather than pursuant to an explicit appropriation by the Legislature. At the end of each fiscal year, any unexpended balance, including accrued interest, on deposit in the Protect Our Water Fund shall not be transferred to the General Revenue Fund, but shall remain in the Protect Our Water Fund for expenditure pursuant to this section.
(b) Each owner or operator of an regulated aboveground storage tank subject to a fee assessment under subsection (a) of this section shall pay a fee based on the number, contents and location of regulated aboveground storage tanks he or she owns or operates, as applicable. The secretary shall vary the fees annually to a level necessary to produce a sufficient fund of no more than $1 million after three years from the effective date of this article, and to maintain an aggregate fund of $1 million at the beginning of each calendar year thereafter.
(e) The secretary, through a cooperative agreement with another state regulatory agency, in this or another state, may use the fund to compensate the cooperating agency for expenses the cooperating agency incurs in carrying out regulatory responsibilities that agency may have pursuant to this article corrective actions pursuant to this article.
(b) A list of the potential sources of significant contamination contained within the zone of critical concern or zone of peripheral concern as provided by the Department of Environmental Protection, the Bureau for Public Health, working in conjunction with the department and the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management may only be disclosed to the extent consistent with the protection of trade secrets, confidential business information and information designated by the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management as described above. The exact location of the contaminants within the zone of critical concern or zone of peripheral concern is not subject to public disclosure in response to a Freedom of Information Act request under article one, chapter twenty-nine-b of this code. However, the location, characteristics and approximate quantities of potential sources of significant contamination within the zone of critical concern or zone of peripheral concern shall be made known to one or more designees of the public water utility, and shall be maintained in a confidential manner by the public water utility. In the event of a chemical spill, release or related emergency release to waters of the state that could affect a public water supply, information pertaining to any spill or about the release of contaminant shall be immediately disseminated promptly made available to any emergency responders responding to the site of a spill or release and the general public shall be promptly notified in the event of a chemical spill, release or related emergency by the Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
(d) To ensure protection of the water resources of the state and compliance with any provision of this article or rule promulgated thereunder, the secretary shall inspect level 1 regulated tanks at least once every five years. The secretary shall develop an inspection protocol for level 2 regulated tanks. annually any aboveground storage tank facility located within the zone of critical concern of a public water system with a public surface water supply source or a public surface water influenced groundwater supply source.
(b) Any owner or operator of an aboveground storage tank who knowingly fails to register or obtain a permit required by this article for an aboveground storage tank certificate to operate a regulated aboveground storage tank or submits false information pursuant to this article is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each aboveground storage tank that is not registered or permitted for which a certificate to operate a regulated aboveground storage tank is not obtained or for which false information is submitted.
(d) Any person who knowingly and intentionally violates any provision of this article, or any rule or order issued under or subject to the provisions of this article, shall be is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in a regional jail for a period of time not exceeding one year, and be fined an amount not to exceed $25,000.
(h) Civil penalties are payable to the secretary. All moneys collected under this section for civil fines collected under this article shall be deposited into a restricted account known as the either the AST Administrative Fund or the Protect Our Water Fund. All money deposited into this account these accounts shall be used by the secretary solely to respond to leaking aboveground storage tanks for the purposes described in sections twelve and thirteen of this article..
(b) The secretary Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management shall also coordinate with state and local emergency response agencies to prepare and issue appropriate emergency response plans to facilitate a coordinated emergency response and incident command and communication between the owner or operator of the regulated aboveground storage tank, the state and local emergency response agencies, and the affected public water systems.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter code to the contrary, upon receipt of evidence that an aboveground storage tank may present an imminent and substantial danger to human health, water resources or the environment, the secretary may bring suit on behalf of the State of West Virginia in the circuit court of the county in which the imminent and substantial danger exists or in the circuit court of Kanawha County against any owner or operator of an aboveground storage tank who has contributed or who is contributing to imminent and substantial danger to public health, safety, water resources or the environment to order the person to take action as may be necessary to abate the situation and protect human health, safety, water resources and the environment from contamination caused by a release of fluid from an aboveground storage tank.
(c) The secretary may revoke any registration authorization or permit or certificate to operate for a significant violation of this article or the rules promulgated hereunder.
(1) Four Three members appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be a professional engineer experienced in the design and construction of public water systems; one of whom shall be a hydrologist or other expert experienced in determining the flow characteristics of rivers and streams; one of whom shall be an environmental toxicologist or other public health expert who is familiar with the impact of contaminants on the human body; and one citizen representative;
(8) One nonvoting member appointed by the President of the Senate Two representatives designated by the Business Industry Council; and
(9) One nonvoting member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. One representative designated by West Virginia Rivers Coalition.