These standards strengthen the design,
construction, maintenance, and repair of seals and monitoring and
control of atmospheres behind seals in order to reduce the risk of
seal failure and the risk of explosions in abandoned areas of
underground coal mines.
The burden hours have been
reduced by approximately 48,500 hours from the ETS. The major
reason for this reduction is that the burden for sampling was
incorrectly included in both the burden hours and burden costs. In
addition, burden hours have been reduced because the requirement in
the ETS for mine operators to file sampling protocols and action
plans in the mine ventilation plan has been deleted from the final
rule. Also, the requirement for mine operators to prepare for
training was inadvertently included as burden hours in the
information collection package that accompanied the ETS. Since the
ETS, the final rule has added burden for: revising mine ventilation
plans to allow for welding, cutting, and soldering activities;
immediately notifying MSHA after an additional sample is taken
under final § 75.336(c); evaluating the atmosphere in sealed areas
to verify correct sampling locations; and labeling sampling pipes
to indicate the location of the sampling point when more than one
sampling pipe is installed through a seal.
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No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Debra Ferraro 202-693-9821
Ferraro.debra@dol.gov
No
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with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
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