Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 22 — Mine Safety and Health
§ 841. Mandatory health standards for underground mines; enforcement; review; purpose
Statutory text
The provisions of sections 842 through 846 of this title and the applicable provisions of section 878 of this title shall be interim mandatory health standards applicable to all underground coal mines until superseded in whole or in part by improved mandatory health standards promulgated by the Secretary under the provisions of section 811 of this title, and shall be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as any mandatory health standard promulgated under the provisions of section 811 of this title. Any orders issued in the enforcement of the interim standards set forth in this subchapter shall be subject to review as provided in subchapter I of this chapter.
Among other things, it is the purpose of this subchapter to provide, to the greatest extent possible, that the working conditions in each underground coal mine are sufficiently free of respirable dust concentrations in the mine atmosphere to permit each miner the opportunity to work underground during the period of his entire adult working life without incurring any disability from pneumoconiosis or any other occupation-related disease during or at the end of such period.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969
Pub. L. 91–173 title II § 201 · 83 Stat. 742
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 841
(Pub. L. 91–173, title II, § 201, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 760.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–173, title II, § 201, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 760.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 201. coverage (a) The provisions of sections 202 through 206 of this title Post, p. 791. and the applicable provisions of section 318 of title III shall be interim mandatory health standards applicable to all underground coal mines until superseded in whole or in part by improved mandatory health standards promulgated by the Secretary under the provisions Ante, p. 745. of section 101 of this Act, and shall be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as any mandatory health standard promulgated under the provisions of section 101 of this Act. Any orders issued in the enforcement of the interim standards set forth in this title shall be subject to review as provided in title I of this Act. (b) Among other things, it is the purpose of this title to provide, to the greatest extent possible, that the working conditions in each underground coal mine are sufficiently free of respirable dust concentrations in the mine atmosphere to permit each miner the opportunity to work underground during the period of his entire adult working life without incurring any disability from pneumoconiosis or any other occupation-related disease during or at the end of such period.
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section operative six months after , except to the extent an earlier date is specifically provided for in Pub. L. 91–173, see section 509 of Pub. L. 91–173, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.