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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 · Sec. 201

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(a)The provisions of sections 202 through 206 of this title and the applicable provisions of section 318 of title III shall be interim mandatory health standards applicable to all underground coal mine until superseded in whole or in part by improved mandatory health standards promulgated by the Secretary under the provisions of section 101 of this Act, and shall be enforced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 this entire adult working life without incurring any disability from pneumoconiosis or any other occupation-related disease during or at the end of such period. **[**[30 U.S.C. 841](/us/usc/t30/s841)**]** Enacted December 30, 1969, P.L. 91–173, title II, sec. 201, 83 Stat. 760.
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