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WV Code § 22-5-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 5. Air Pollution Control|§22-5-16. Small Business Environmental Compliance Assistance Program, Compliance Advisory Panel

The secretary of the Department of Commerce, labor, and environmental resources shall establish a small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance program which meets the requirements of Title V of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §7661 et seq. A compliance advisory panel composed of seven members appointed as follows shall be created to periodically review the effectiveness and results of this assistance program:(a) Two members who are not owners, nor representatives of owners, of small business stationary sources, selected by the Governor to represent the general public;(b) One member selected by the Speaker of the House of Delegates who is an owner or who represents owners of small business stationary sources;(c) One member selected by the minority leader of the House of Delegates who is an owner or who represents owners of small business stationary sources;(d) One member selected by the President of the Senate who is an owner or who represents owners of small business stationary sources;(e) One member selected by the minority leader of the Senate who is an owner or who represents owners of small business stationary sources; and(f) One member selected by the director to represent the director.
WV Code § 22-5-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 5. Air Pollution Control|§22-5-18. Market-Based Banking and Trading Programs, Emissions Credits; Director to Promulgate Rules

(a) The director shall propose legislative rules for promulgation in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, to the full extent allowed by federal and state law, one or more rules establishing a voluntary emissions trading and banking program that provides incentives to make progress toward the attainment or maintenance of the national ambient air quality standards, the reduction or prevention of hazardous air contaminants or the protection of human health and welfare and the environment from air pollution.(b) The director shall establish a system by legislative rule for quantifying, verifying, determining eligibility, registering, trading and using all emissions reduction credits, for banking and trading if achieved after January 1, 1991, to the extent permitted by federal law. Credits also shall be available for permanent shutdowns. Ten percent of any emission reduction credits registered with the director shall be retired from future use: Provided, That fifty percent of any emission reduction credits generated from permanent shutdowns prior to the effective date of the legislative rule or rules promulgated pursuant to this section shall be retired from future use. All other emissions reduction credits registered shall remain in effect until used and debited or retired. Credits not used within ten years shall be retired from future use. The director may charge a reasonable transaction fee at the time any credits are registered and shall deposit the fees in the air pollution control fund. The division may establish the emissions trading program as a state, multistate or regional program as long as the program contributes to the goal of improving the air quality in West Virginia and in the air quality region where the source is located.
WV Code § 22-5-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 5. Air Pollution Control|§22-5-19. Inventory of Greenhouse Gases

(a) The secretary shall establish a program to inventory greenhouse gas emissions from major sources that are subject to mandatory federal greenhouse gases reporting requirements. The secretary shall obtain available emissions data directly from the appropriate federal entity, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency.(b) As used in this section, "greenhouse gas" means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflurocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride.
WV Code § 22-5-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 5. Air Pollution Control|§22-5-20. Development of a State Plan Relating to Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units

 The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection shall propose a legislative rule for promulgation in accordance with 29A-3-1 of this code to implement the Affordable Clean Energy rule, consisting of Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas, Emissions from Existing Electric Utility Generating Units (EGUs) pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act, section 111(d). The proposed rule shall be filed with the Secretary of State in time for consideration during the 2021 legislative session. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the agency shall submit a complete or partial state compliance plan to the federal Environmental Protection Agency no later than September 1, 2020, which may be comprised of one or more EGU facilities that are voluntarily prepared to move forward with a compliance plan for one or more of their EGUs.
WV Code § 22-6-2a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-2a. Oil and Gas Inspectors Qualifications and Salary

(a) No person is eligible for appointment as an oil and gas inspector or supervising inspector unless, at the time of probationary appointment, the person: (1) Is a citizen of West Virginia, in good health and of good character, reputation and temperate habits; (2) has had at least two years actual relevant experience in the oil and gas industry: Provided, That no more than one year of the experience requirement may be satisfied by any of following: (i) A bachelor of science degree in science or engineering; (ii) an associate degree in petroleum technology; or (iii) actual relevant environmental experience including, without limitation, experience in wastewater, solid waste or reclamation, each full year of which shall be considered as a year of actual relevant experience in the oil and gas industry; and (3) has good theoretical and practical knowledge of oil and gas drilling and production methods, practices and techniques, sound safety practices and applicable water and mining laws.(b) In order to qualify for appointment as an oil and gas inspector or supervising inspector by the secretary, an eligible applicant shall submit to a written and oral examination by the Division of Personnel within the Department of Administration and shall furnish any evidence of good health, character and other facts establishing eligibility required by the Division of Personnel. The Office of Oil and Gas shall determine the substance of the examinations administered to candidates for the positions of oil and gas inspector and supervising oil and gas inspector by the Division of Personnel. If the Division of Personnel finds after investigation and examination that an applicant: (1) Is eligible for appointment; and (2) has passed all written and oral examinations, the division shall add the applicant's name and grade to the register of qualified eligible candidates and certify its action to the secretary. No candidate's name may remain on the register for more than three years without requalifying.(c) Every supervising oil and gas inspector shall be paid not less than $40,000 per year. Every oil and gas inspector shall be paid not less than $35,000 per year.
WV Code § 22-6-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-4. Review of Findings and Orders by Director; Special Inspection; Annulment, Revision, etc., of Order; Notice

(a) Any well operator, complaining coal operator, owner or lessee, if any, aggrieved by findings or an order made by an oil or gas inspector pursuant to section three of this article, may within fifteen days apply to the director for annulment or revision of such order. Upon receipt of such application the director shall make a special inspection of the well, well site or other oil and gas facility affected by such order, or cause two duly authorized oil and gas inspectors, other than the oil and gas inspector who made such order or the supervising inspector and one duly authorized oil and gas inspector other than the oil and gas inspector who made such order, to make such inspection of such well, or well site or other oil or gas facility and to report thereon to them. Upon making such special inspection, or upon receiving the report of such special inspection, as the case may be, the director shall make an order which shall include the director's findings and shall annul, revise or affirm the order of the oil and gas inspector.(b) The director shall cause notice of each finding and order made under this section to be given promptly to the operator of the well, well site or other oil or gas facility to which such findings and order pertain, and the complainant under section three, if any.(c) At any time while an order made pursuant to section three of this article is in effect, the operator of the well, well site or other oil or gas facility affected by such order may apply to the director for annulment or revision of such order. The director shall thereupon proceed to act upon such application in the manner provided in this section.(d) In view of the urgent need for prompt decision of matters submitted to the director under this article, all actions which the director, or oil and gas inspectors or the supervising inspector are required to take under this article, shall be taken as rapidly as practicable, consistent with adequate consideration of the issues involved.
WV Code § 22-6-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-5. Requirements for Findings, Orders and Notices; Posting of Findings and Orders; Judicial Review of Final Orders of Director

(a) All findings and orders made pursuant to section three or four of this article, and all notices required to be given of the making of such findings and orders, shall be in writing. All such findings and orders shall be signed by the person making them, and all such notices shall be signed by the person charged with the duty of giving the notice. All such notices shall contain a copy of the findings and orders referred to therein.(b) Notice of any finding or order required by section three or four of this article to be given to an operator shall be given by causing such notice, addressed to the operator of the well, well site or other oil and/or gas facility to which such finding or order pertains, to be delivered to such operator by causing a copy thereof to be sent by registered mail to the permanent address of such operator as filed with the division and by causing a copy thereof to be posted upon the drilling rig or other equipment at the well, well site or other oil and/or gas facility, as the case may be. The requirement of this article that a notice shall be "addressed to the operator of the well, well site or other oil and/or gas facility to which such finding or order pertains," shall not require that the name of the operator for whom it is intended shall be specifically set out in such address. Addressing such notice to "Operator of ___________________," specifying the well, well site or other oil and/or gas facility sufficiently to identify it, shall satisfy such requirement.(c) Any well operator, complaining coal operator, owner or lessee, if any, adversely affected by a final order issued by the director under section four of this article shall be entitled to judicial review thereof. All of the pertinent provisions of section four, article five, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code shall apply to and govern such judicial review with like effect as if the provisions of said section four were set forth in extenso in this section.(d) The judgment of the circuit court shall be final unless reversed, vacated or modified on appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals in accordance with the provisions of section one, article six, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.(e) Legal counsel and services for the director in all appeal proceedings in any circuit court and the Supreme Court of Appeals shall be provided by the Attorney General or his or her assistants and in any circuit court by the prosecuting attorney of the county as well, all without additional compensation. The director, with written approval of the Attorney General, may employ special counsel to represent the director at any such appeal proceedings.
WV Code § 22-6-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-9. Notice to Property Owners

(a) No later than the filing date of the application, the applicant for a permit for any well work shall deliver by personal service or by certified mail, return receipt requested, copies of the application, well plat and erosion and sediment control plan required by section six of this article to each of the following persons:(1) The owners of record of the surface of the tract on which the well is, or is to be located; and(2) The owners of record of the surface tract or tracts overlying the oil and gas leasehold being developed by the proposed well work, if such surface tract is to be utilized for roads or other land disturbance as described in the erosion and sediment control plan submitted pursuant to section six of this article.(b) If more than three tenants in common or other coowners of interests described in subsection (a) of this section hold interests in such lands, the applicant may serve the documents required upon the person described in the records of the sheriff required to be maintained pursuant to section eight, article one, chapter eleven-a of this code, or publish in the county in which the well is located or to be located a Class II legal advertisement as described in section two, article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, containing such notice and information as the director shall prescribe by rule, with the first publication date being at least ten days prior to the filing of the permit application: Provided, That all owners occupying the tracts where the well work is, or is proposed to be located at the filing date of the permit application shall receive actual service of the documents required by subsection (a) of this section.(c) Materials served upon persons described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall contain a statement of the methods and time limits for filing comments, who may file comments and the name and address of the director for the purpose of filing comments and obtaining additional information and a statement that such persons may request, at the time of submitting comments, notice of the permit decision and a list of persons qualified to test water as provided in this section.(d) Any person entitled to submit comments shall also be entitled to receive a copy of the permit as issued or a copy of the order denying the permit if such person requests the receipt thereof as a part of the comments concerning said permit application.(e) Persons entitled to notice may contact the district office of the division to ascertain the names and location of water testing laboratories in the area capable and qualified to test water supplies in accordance with standard accepted methods. In compiling such list of names the division shall consult with the state bureau of public health and local health departments.
WV Code § 22-6-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-10. Procedure for Filing Comments; Certification of Notice

(a) All persons described in subsections (a) and (b), section nine of this article may file comments with the director as to the location or construction of the applicant's proposed well work within fifteen days after the application is filed with the director.(b) Prior to the issuance of any permit for well work, the applicant shall certify to the director that the requirements of section nine of this article have been completed by the applicant. Such certification may be by affidavit of personal service or the return receipt card, or other postal receipt for certified mailing.
WV Code § 22-6-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-11. Review of Application; Issuance of Permit in the Absence of Objections; Copy of Permits to County Assessor

The director shall review each application for a well work permit and shall determine whether or not a permit shall be issued.No permit shall be issued less than fifteen days after the filing date of the application for any well work except plugging or replugging; and no permit for plugging or replugging shall be issued less than five days after the filing date of the application except a permit for plugging or replugging a dry hole: Provided, That if the applicant certifies that all persons entitled to notice of the application under the provisions of this article have been served in person or by certified mail, return receipt requested, with a copy of the well work application, including the erosion and sediment control plan, if required, and the plat required by section six of this article, and further files written statements of no objection by all such persons, the director may issue the well work permit at any time.The director may cause such inspections to be made of the proposed well work location as to assure adequate review of the application. The permit shall not be issued, or shall be conditioned including conditions with respect to the location of the well and access roads prior to issuance if the director determines that:(1) The proposed well work will constitute a hazard to the safety of persons; or(2) The plan for soil erosion and sediment control is not adequate or effective; or(3) Damage would occur to publicly owned lands or resources; or(4) The proposed well work fails to protect fresh water sources or supplies.The director shall promptly review all comments filed. If after review of the application and all comments received, the application for a well work permit is approved, and no timely objection or comment has been filed with the director or made by the director under the provisions of section fifteen, sixteen or seventeen of this article, the permit shall be issued, with conditions, if any. Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede the provisions of sections six, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventeen of this article.The director shall mail a copy of the permit as issued or a copy of the order denying a permit to any person who submitted comments to the director concerning said permit and requested such copy.Upon the issuance of any permit pursuant to the provisions of this article, the director shall transmit a copy of such permit to the office of the assessor for the county in which the well is located.
WV Code § 22-6-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-13. Notice to Coal Operators, Owners or Lessees and Director of Intention to Fracture Certain Other Wells; Contents of Such Notice; Bond; Permit Required

Before fracturing any well the well operator shall, by registered or certified mail, forward a notice of intention to fracture such well to the director and to each and every coal operator operating coal seams beneath said tract of land, who has mapped the same and filed such maps with the office of miners' health, safety and training in accordance with chapter twenty-two-a of this code, and the coal seam owner and lessee, if any, if said owner of record or lessee of record has recorded the declaration provided in section thirty-six of this article, and if said owner or lessee is not yet operating said coal seams beneath said tract of land.The notice shall be addressed to the director and to each such coal operator at their respective addresses, shall contain the number of the drilling permit for such well and such other information as may be required by the director to enable the division and the coal operators to locate and identify such well and shall inform them that such notice is being mailed to them, respectively, by registered or certified mail, pursuant to the requirements of this article. The form for such notice of intention shall be furnished on request by the director.If no objections are made, or are found by the director to such proposed fracturing within fifteen days from receipt of such notice by the director, the same shall be filed and become a permanent record of such fracturing, subject to inspection at any time by any interested person, and the director shall forthwith issue to the well operator a permit reciting the filing of such notice, that no objections have been made by the coal operators, or found thereto by the director, and authorizing the well operator to fracture such well. Unless the director has objections to such proposed fracturing, such permit shall be issued prior to the expiration of such fifteen-day period upon the obtaining by the well operator of the consent in writing of the coal operator or operators, owners or lessees, if any, to whom notice of intention to fracture shall have been mailed as herein required, and upon presentation of such written consent to the director. The notice above provided for may be given to the coal operator by delivering or mailing it by registered or certified mail as above to any agent or superintendent in actual charge of mines.
WV Code § 22-6-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22. Environmental Resources|Article 6. Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement|§22-6-18. Protective Devices -- When Well Penetrates Workable Coal Bed; When Gas Is Found Beneath or Between Workable Coal Beds

(a) When a well penetrates one or more workable coal beds, the well operator shall run and cement a string of casing in the hole through the workable coal bed or beds in such a manner as will exclude all oil, gas or gas pressure from the coal bed or beds, except such oil, gas or gas pressure as may be found in such coal bed or beds. Such string of casing shall be run to a point at least thirty feet below the lowest workable coal bed which the well penetrates and shall be circulated and cemented from such point to the surface in such a manner as provided for in reasonable rules promulgated by the director in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a. After any such string of casing has been so run and cemented to the surface, drilling may proceed to the permitted depth.(b) In the event that gas is found beneath a workable coal bed before the hole has been reduced from the size it had at the coal bed, a packer shall be placed below the coal bed, and above the gas horizon, and the gas by this means diverted to the inside of the adjacent string of casing through perforations made in such casing, and through it passed to the surface without contact with the coal bed. Should gas be found between two workable beds of coal, in a hole, of the same diameter from bed to bed, two packers shall be placed, with perforations in the casing between them, permitting the gas to pass to the surface inside the adjacent casing. In either of the cases here specified, the strings of casing shall extend from their seats to the top of the well.