West Virginia Code Chapter 24. Public Service Commission § 24-2-1m. Commission jurisdiction does not extend to materials recovery facilities, mixed waste processing facilities, and certain mixed waste processing and resource recovery facilities

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the jurisdiction of the commission does not extend to materials recovery facilities or mixed waste processing facilities as defined by § 22-15-2 of this code, except within a 35-mile radius of a facility sited in a county that is, in whole or in part, within a karst region as determined by the West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey that has been permitted and classified by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection as a mixed waste processing resource recovery facility and has received a certificate of need by July 1, 2016: Provided, That nothing in this section shall affect the requirements of § 24A-2-5 and § 24A-3-3 of this code: Provided, however, That the jurisdiction of the commission does not extend to any mixed waste processing and resource recovery facility that processes a minimum of 70 percent of the material brought to the facility on any given day on a 30-day aggregate basis.