Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances

1219-AB84 201704 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 1219 Mine Safety and Health Administration MSHA 1200 Department of Labor DOL Refuge Alternatives for Underground Coal Mines; Limited Reopening of the Record

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit remanded a training provision in the Refuge Alternatives Final Rule, directing the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to explain the basis for requiring motor task (hands-on), decision-making, and expectations training annually rather than quarterly, or to reopen the record, and allow public comment. MSHA reopened the rulemaking record for its Refuge Alternatives Final Rule for the limited purpose of obtaining comments on the frequency for motor task (also known as "hands-on" training), decision-making, and expectations training for miners to deploy and use refuge alternatives in underground coal mines. MSHA has reviewed and addressed the comments and will publish its course of action in the Federal Register.

]]> Other Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage Undetermined Undetermined 30 CFR 75 30 U.S.C. 957 30 U.S.C. 811 No Limited Reopening of the Record 08/08/2013 78 FR 48591 Limited Reopening of the Record; Comment Period End 10/07/2013 Reopen the Record and Extend Comment Period 11/15/2013 78 FR 68783 Reopen the Record and Extend Comment Period End 12/16/2013 Final Rule 04/00/2018 Undetermined State Undetermined No No No 1219-AB58 Related to Sheila McConnell Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances 1219 Mine Safety and Health Administration MSHA 202 693-9440 202 693-9441 mcconnell.sheila.a@dol.gov 201 12th Street South, Room 4E401, Arlington VA 22202-5452