West Virginia Code
Article 2. Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Act
§22C-2-7. Environmental Review of Funded Projects

(a) The Division of Environmental Protection shall conduct an environmental review on each project funded under this article. The director of the Division of Environmental Protection shall promulgate legislative rules in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to implement the environmental review of funded projects: Provided, That the rules shall be consistent with the regulations promulgated by the United States environmental protection agency pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act, as amended.
(b) The director of the Division of Environmental Protection is authorized to direct a local entity, or its agent, to implement all measures that, in the judgment of the director, are necessary in order to mitigate or prevent adverse impacts to the public health, safety or welfare or to the environment that may result from a project funded under this article. The director is further authorized to require all projects to comply with all other appropriate federal laws and regulations that are required of the projects under the federal Clean Water Act, as amended.

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