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RIN: 1219-AA47

Publication ID: Spring 1999

Title: Hazard Communication
Abstract: Today's complex mining environment subjects miners to well-known hazards, such as coal mine dust and crystalline silica; to emerging hazards, including hazardous wastes burned as fuel supplements at cement kilns; and to changing hazards from the many chemicals brought onto mine property. This rule would provide miners with the means to receive necessary information on the hazards of chemicals to which they are exposed and the actions necessary to protect them from such hazards. In developing this rule, MSHA has reviewed OSHA's hazard communication standard, information collected by NIOSH, and public comments. For its final rule, MSHA intends to publish a user-friendly regulation which will facilitate compliance by mine operators, while providing increased health and safety protection to miners.
Agency: Department of Labor(DOL)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 30 CFR 120
Legal Authority: 30 USC 811

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
ANPRM	03/30/1988	53 FR 10257
ANPRM Comment Period End	07/31/1988
NPRM	11/02/1990	55 FR 46400
NPRM Comment Period End	01/31/1992	56 FR 48720
Reopen Record	03/30/1999	64 FR 15144
Final Action	09/00/1999

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes	Government Levels Affected: Federal, Local, State, Tribal
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Agency Contact: Marvin W. Nichols Jr. Director, Office of Standards Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration Room 2352, 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350, Arlington, VA 22209 Phone:202 693-9440 Fax:202 693-9441 Email: nichols-marvin@dol.gov