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The act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151, sometimes called the Mines Regulation Act 1860, [3] the Mines Act 1860, [4] the Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [5] the Regulation and Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [6] the Coal Mines Act 1860, [7] the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1860, [8] the Inspection and Regulation of Coal Mines Act 1860, [9] or the Inspection of Coal Mines Act, [10] is an Act of the Parliament of ...
The legislation was more comprehensive and stringent than previous federal laws governing the mining industry. The Coal Act required two annual inspections of every surface coal mine and four at every underground coal mine, and dramatically increased federal enforcement powers in coal mines. The Coal Act also required monetary penalties for all ...
The California Code of Regulations (CCR, Cal. Code Regs. ) is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law ) announced in the California Regulatory Notice Register by California state agencies under authority from primary legislation in the California Codes .
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [1]The Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to require state programs for regulation of surface coal mining to incorporate the necessary rule concerning excess spoil, coal mine ...
Federal laws for mining safety ensued this disaster. Pennsylvania suffered another disaster in 2002 at Quecreek, 9 miners were trapped underground and subsequently rescued after 78 hours. During 2006, 72 miners lost their lives at work, 47 by coal mining.
At the end of that decade, states began to enact the first laws regulating the coal mining industry: West Virginia in 1939, Indiana in 1941, Illinois in 1943, and Pennsylvania in 1945. Despite those laws, the great demand for coal during World War II led to coal being mined with little regard for environmental consequences. After the war ...
A coal mine mantrip at Lackawanna Coal Mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania Coal miners exiting a winder cage at a mine near Richlands, Virginia in 1974 Surface coal mining in Wyoming, U.S. A coal mine in Frameries, Belgium. Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.
The Black Lung Benefits Act established a government trust fund to pay for the benefits, financed by an excise tax on coal. Until the end of 2018 the tax was $1.10 per ton for coal from subsurface mines and $0.55 per ton for surface mines, limited to a maximum of 4.4% of the coal’s selling price.