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PUBLIC LAW 552--JULY 16, 1952

Public Law 552

[66 S T A T.

CHAPTER 877

July 16, 1952

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To amend Public Law 49, Seventy-seventh Congress, so as to provide for the prevention of major disasters in coal mines.

Federal Coal Mine Safety Act

amendment.

30 USC 4f-4o.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled '^A.!! Act relating to Certain inspections and investigations in coal mines for the purpose of obtaining information relating to health and safety conditions, accidents, and occupational diseases therein, and for other purposes", approved May 7, 1941, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new title:.

"TITLE II—PREVENTION OF MAJOR DISASTERS IN MINES "DEFINITIONS AND EXEMPTION

30 USC 4n. ost, p. 710.

"SEC. 201. (a) For the purposes of this title— "(1) The term 'Board' means the Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review created by section 205. "(2) The term 'Bureau'means the Bureau of Mines. "(3) The term 'certified person', when used to designate the kind of person to whom the performance of a duty in connection with the operation of a mine shall be assigned, means a person who is qualified under the laws of the State in which such mine is located to perform such duty, except that in a State the laws of which do not provide for such qualification, the term means a person deemed by the operator of such mine to be qualified to perform such duty. "(4) The term 'commerce'means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communications between any State, Territory, possession, or the District of Columbia and any other State, Territory, or possession, of the United States, or between any State, Territory, possession, or the District of Columbia and any foreign country, or wholly within any Territory, possession, or through any other State or through any Territory, possession, or the District of Columbia or through any foreign country. " (5) The term 'Director' means the Director of the Bureau of Mines. "(6) The term 'duly authorized representative of the Bureau' means a person appointed under section 109 of title I or under section 212 ^^ ^j^-g j.j|.|g^ j^j^(j authorized in writing by the Director to perform the duties of a duly authorized representative of the Bureau as provided in sections 202, 203, and 206 of this title. "(7) The term 'mine' means an area of land including everything annexed to it by nature and all structures, machinery, tools, equipment and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under or above its surface by man, used in the work of extracting bituminous coal, lignite or anthracite, from its natural deposits in the earth in such area and in the work of processing the coal so extracted. The term 'mine' does not include any strip mine. The term 'work of processing the coal' as used in this paragraph means the sizing, cleaning, drying, mixing and crushing of bituminous coal, lignite or anthracite, and such other work of processing such coal as is usually done by the operator, and does not mean crushing, coking, or distillation of such coal or such other work of processing such coal as is usually done by a consumer or others in connection with the utilization of such coal. " (8) The term 'operator' means the person, partnership, association or corporation operating a mine and owning the right to do so.

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