§ 841. — Mandatory health standards for underground mines; enforcement; review; purpose.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC841]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 22--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH
SUBCHAPTER II--INTERIM MANDATORY HEALTH STANDARDS
Sec. 841. Mandatory health standards for underground mines;
enforcement; review; purpose
(a) 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until superseded in whole or in part by improved mandatory health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.
(b) 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.
(Pub. L. 91-173, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 760.)
Effective Date
Subchapter operative six months after Dec. 30, 1969, 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.
