[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 1995)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 18043-18044]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8656]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Mine Safety and Health Administration

30 CFR Chapter I


Review of Existing Regulations

AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: MSHA is conducting a comprehensive review of its existing 
safety and health regulations. The Agency invites mine operators, 
miners, manufacturers, and other interested parties to identify 
regulations that are unnecessary or need to be updated. MSHA 
specifically requests help in identifying obsolete requirements and 
conflicting or duplicate provisions.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before May 1, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, Room 
631, 4015 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203. Commenters are 
encouraged to send comments on a computer disk along with their 
original comments in hard copy.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia W. Silvey, Director, Office 
of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, phone 703-235-1910.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MSHA is conducting a comprehensive review of 
all its existing regulations which are in chapter I of title 30 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations. The primary purpose of this review is to 
improve the effectiveness of the Agency's existing safety and health 
regulations, without reducing the protection provided to miners. This 
review is consistent with the goals of Executive Order 12866, the 
Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and the 
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. It also is consistent with 
the President's government-wide regulatory reform efforts to reduce 
overly burdensome and paperwork intensive requirements where possible.
    In reviewing its existing regulations, MSHA is evaluating each 
standard to determine if it is unnecessary, inaccurate, or outdated. 
For example, the Agency has identified equipment approval regulations 
under which no applications have been received in many years. MSHA also 
is evaluating whether there are standards which duplicate, are 
inconsistent with, or conflict with other MSHA or Federal requirements. 
For example, MSHA is considering combining the safety and health 
standards for surface and underground metal and nonmetal mines into a 
single part to eliminate unnecessary repetition.
    MSHA considers timely public participation to be an integral part 
of any process to improve the effectiveness of its safety and health 
regulations. The Agency, therefore, urges the mining community and 
other interested parties to submit their suggestions for improving the 
Agency's existing regulations.

    Dated: March 31, 1995.

J. Davitt McAteer,
Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 95-8656 Filed 4-7-95; 8:45 am]
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