Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 22 — Mine Safety and Health
§ 844. Rock dust and gas hazards; controls
Statutory text
The dust resulting from drilling in rock shall be controlled by the use of permissible dust collectors, or by water or water with a wetting agent, or by ventilation, or by any other method or device approved by the Secretary which is at least as effective in controlling such dust. Respiratory equipment approved by the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall be provided persons exposed for short periods to inhalation hazards from gas, dusts, fumes, or mist. When the exposure is for prolonged periods, other measures to protect such persons or to reduce the hazard shall be taken.
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 § 204 · 83 Stat. 742
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 844
Pub. L. 91–173, title II, § 204, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 764
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 91–173, title II, § 204, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 764Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 204. dust from drilling rock The dust resulting from drilling in rock shall be controlled by the use of permissible dust collectors, or by water or water with a wetting agent or by ventilation, or by any other method or device approved by the Secretary which is at least as effective in controlling such dust. Respiratory equipment approved by the Secretary and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall be provided per-sons exposed for short periods to inhalation hazards from gas, dusts, fumes, or mist. When the exposure is for prolonged periods, other measures to protect such persons or to reduce the hazard shall be taken.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
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.
Credits
1969–1979 · 2 acts
- 1969Pub. L. 91–173, title II, § 204, , 83 Stat. 764
- 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
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(Pub. L. 91–173, title II, § 204, , 83 Stat. 764; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)