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Laws and regulations affecting coal : with summaries of Federal, state, and local laws and regulations pertaining to air and water pollution control, reclamation, diligence and health and safety : prepared for the Office of Minerals Policy and Research Analysis, U.S. Dept. of the Interior (Office of Minerals Policy and Research Analysis, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1976), by inc Energy and Environmental Analysis and United States. Office of Minerals Policy and Research Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
Draft environmental impact statement supplement for the Federal Coal Management Program (The Bureau, 1985), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Surface management of Federal coal resources (43 CFR 3041) and coal mining operating regulations (30 CFR 211) : final environmental statement. ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1976), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Abstract of the final environmental statement: Federal coal management program (The Bureau : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal coal management program : United States Department of the Interior draft environmental statement (The Bureau : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1978), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Study on tribal capability to assume regulatory primacy. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 1987), by United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (page images at HathiTrust)
A Review of the unsuitability criteria in federal coal leasing (The Bureau, 1985), by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Forest Service, United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Analysis of options for amending the Mineral Leasing Act, sections 2(a)(2)(A) and 7 (The Office, 1985), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Office of Minerals Policy Analysis and Program Coordination (page images at HathiTrust)
To amend section 402 of the Surface Minng Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One hundredth Congress, first session, on S. 643 ... March 31, 1987. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1987., 1987), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production (page images at HathiTrust)
Amending the Mineral Leasing Act governing federal coal lease royalty rates : hearing before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 907 ... May 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production (page images at HathiTrust)
Implementation of SMCRA : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 20, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, Public Law 91-173, as amended by Public Law 95-164 ([U.S. Dept. of the Interior], 2000), by United States and United States Department of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)
MINER Act (U.S. G.P.O., 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (page images at HathiTrust)
The S-MINER Act (H.R. 2768) and the Miner Health Enhancement Act of 2007 (H.R. 2769) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, July 26, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections (page images at HathiTrust)
MINER Act one year later (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by Education United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years after the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by Education United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health (page images at HathiTrust)
Surface mining : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on reviewing the issue of state primacy in the regulation of active coal mining operations under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ... (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
HR 493, Coal Ash Reclamation, Environment, and Safety Act of 2009 (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2009., 2009), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Amending the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, and other coal related issues : hearing before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 372 ... S. 570 ... S. 913 ... S. 946 ... November 8, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Natural Resources Development and Production (page images at HathiTrust)
Amending the Mineral Leasing Act governing federal coal lease royalty rates : hearing before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 907 ... May 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production (page images at HathiTrust)
The Surface mine operator's manual : a guide to the regulatory program and compliance standards. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, 1983), by Applied Science Associates and United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (page images at HathiTrust)
The effect of Government regulation on the production and use of coal : hearings before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session ... Lexington, Ky., May 11, 1979, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1979, Washington, D.C., May 15, 1979. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)
Surface mining : Interior is acting to improve its applicant violator system : report to the Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives (The Office, 1990), by United States General Accounting Office and United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal lands and coal-land laws of the United States. (G.P.O., 1906), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
United States mining statutes annotated (G.P.O., 1915), by J. W. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal coal management program : United States Department of the Interior final environmental statement (The Bureau : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
An Act to Provide for the Exchange of Certain Federal Coal Leases in the State of New Mexico for Other Federal Coal Leases in that State. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1980), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
Effect of the President's FY 2012 budget and legislative proposals for the Office of Surface Mining on private sector job creation, domestic energy production, state programs, and deficit reduction : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, Thursday, April 7, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal conversion, extraction, and processing : memorandum of understanding between the United States of America and Australia, signed at Canberra, June 23, 1978. (Dept. of State : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
War on jobs : examining the operations of the Office of Surface Mining and the status of the stream buffer zone rule : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. (Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014., 2014), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Study on tribal capability to assume regulatory primacy. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 1987), by United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (page images at HathiTrust)
Cooperation and conflict : regulating coal production. (United States Regulatory Council, 1981), by United States. Regulatory Council (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Coal mines and mining -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases

Benefit/cost analyses of laws and regulations affecting coal. : case studies on reclamation, air pollution, and health and safety laws and regulations : final report (Dept. of the Interior, Office of Minerals Policy and Research Analysis :, 1977), by inc Energy and Environmental Analysis and United States. Office of Minerals Policy and Research Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Coal mines and mining -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Compliance costs

A cost comparison of selected U.S. and Polish coal mines (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Division of Resource Evaluation, 1993), by Charles Oddenino, United States. Bureau of Mines. Division of Resources Evaluation, and United States. International Trade Administration. Energy Division (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Coal mines and mining -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Safety measures

To amend the Federal coal mine health and safety act hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor Standards of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 4287 ... March 29, 1977. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
To amend the Federal coal mine health and safety act : hearing before the General Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3584 ... March 10, 1965. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1965), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Abandoned coal mines -- Law and legislation -- United States

Abandoned mine legislation : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on S. 2049, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to reauthorize collection of reclamation fees, revise the abandoned mine reclamation program, promote remining, authorize the Office of Surface Mining to collect the black lung excise tax, and make other sundry changes, and S. 2086, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to improve the reclamation of abandoned mines, March 11, 2004. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal remining : hearings before the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first and second sessions, on H.R. 2719 ... H.R. 2791 ... H.R. 4053 ... : hearings held in Washington, DC, July 18, 1989, March 13, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Calling for the full appropriation of state and tribal shares of Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund : report (to accompany H. Con. Res. 425). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Sealing of Abandoned Anthracite Coal Mines : hearings before the United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session and Eighty-Seventh Congress, second session, on Apr. 10, May 9, 1961, Jan. 31, 1962. (U.S. G.P.O., 1962), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mines and Mining (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Coal mines and mining -- Safety regulations -- United States

Draft of proposed mandatory safety standards, surface coal mines and surface work areas of underground coal mines. (United States Dept. of the Interior, Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration, 1974), by United States. Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
Mandatory health and safety standards : subchapter O, coal mine health and safety. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration, 1970), by United States. Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
Legislative history of the Federal coal mine health and safety act of 1969 : (Public law 91-173) as amended through 1974, including blacklung amendments of 1972 : prepared for the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report to the Congress of the United States. (Washington., 1970), by United States. Interim Compliance Panel and United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal mine health and safety. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 : Public Law 91-173, as amended by Public Law 95-164, an act. (for sale by the Supt. of Docs :, 1978), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
Oversight hearings on the Coal mine health and safety act of 1969 (excluding title IV) ; hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor Standards of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
Tentative bituminous and lignite-mine inspection standards (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1943), by United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
Tentative coal-mine inspection standards (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1942), by United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
Tentative inspection standards for anthracite mines (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1943), by United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
To amend the Federal coal mine safety act. : Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session. March 10, 1965. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal mine health and safety. : Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, first session ... Sept. 9, 1969. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal mine health and safety. Hearings ... Ninety-first Congress, first session, on S. 355 [and others] ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal coal mine health and safety act of 1969; report together with minority, supplemental, and separate views, to accompany H.R. 13950. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Mine safety and health : tampering scandal led to improved sampling devices : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives (The Office ;, 1993), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Mine safety : MSHA devotes substantial effort to esuring the safety and health of coal miners, but its programs could be strengthened : report to Congressional requesters (The Office, 2003), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Legislative history: Federal coal mine health and safety act. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal coal mine safety act (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Health and safety in the coal mines. Hearing. Ninety-first Congress, second session ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
MSHA oversight--coal mine safety and health : hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Safety of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1983), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health and Safety (page images at HathiTrust)
Compliance guide two for MSHA's regulations on diesel-powered equipment used in underground coal mines (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, 1999), by United States. Mine Safety and Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
Amendments to the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Labor, Eighty-Ninth Congress, first session, on June 14, 21, 1965. (U.S. G.P.O., 1965), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Coal Mine Health and Safety. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Labor, Ninety-First Congress, first session. (U.S. G.P.O., 1969), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Amending the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Labor, Eighty-Sixth Congress, first session, on July 21, 22, 24, 1959. (U.S. G.P.O., 1959), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
To Amend the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Labor, Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session, on Mar. 21, 28, 1958. (U.S. G.P.O., 1958), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
Learning from the Upper Big Branch tragedy : hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 27, 2012. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2012., 2012), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)
Amended Mine Act, procedural rules, EAJA rules. (Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission, 2008), by United States. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Protecting the health of coal miners; an interagency approach (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1973), by Marilyn K. Hutchison and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tentative inspection standards for anthracite mines (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1944), by United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
Modernizing mine safety : hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, May 4, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections (page images at HathiTrust)
Examining recent regulatory and enforcement actions of the Mine Safety and Health Administration : hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 3, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal coal mine health and safety act of 1969 (Public law 91-173); proposed amendments to title IV, black lung legislation, bill text, section-by-section analysis (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and United States (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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