definitions and applicability

definitions and applicability Sec. 102. (a) (1) Section 2 of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 is amended by inserting “or other” immediately after “coal” wherever it appeal’s. (2) Section 2(g) (1) of such Act is amended by striking out “the Interior” and inserting in lieu thereof “Labor”. (b) (1) Section 3(a) of such Act is amended by striking out “the Interior” and inserting in lieu thereof “Labor”. (2) Section 3(d) of such Act is amended by striking the semicolon at the end thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof “or any independent contractor performing services or construction at such mine;”. (3) Section 3(h) of such Act is amended to read as follows: “(h) (1) ‘coal or other mine’ means (A) an area of land from which minerals are extracted in nonliquid form or, if in liquid form, are extracted with workers underground, (B) private ways and roads appurtenant to such area, and (C) lands, excavations, underground passageways, shafts, slopes, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other property including impoundments, retention dams, and tailings ponds, on the surface or underground, used in, or to be used in. or resulting from, the work of extracting such minerals from their natural deposits in nonliquid form, or if in liquid form, with workers underground, or used in, or to be used in, the milling of such minerals, or the work of preparing coal or other minerals, and includes custom coal preparation facilities. In making a determination of what constitutes mineral milling for purposes of this Act, the 'Secretary shall give due consideration to the convenience of administration resulting from the delegation to one Assistant Secretary of all authority with respect to the health and safety of miners employed at one physical establishment; “(2) For purposes of titles II, III, and IV, ‘coal mine’ means an area of land and all structures, facilities, machinery, tools, 91 STAT. 1291equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations, and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land by any person, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting in such area bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite from its natural deposits in the earth by any means or method, and the work of preparing the coal so extracted, and includes custom coal preparation facilities;”. (4) Sections 3 (d), (e), (g), and (j) of such Act are each amended by inserting “or other” immediately after “coal” wherever it appears. (5) Section 3 of such Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (1). by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (m) and inserting in lieu thereof “; and”, and by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: “(n) ‘Administration’ means the Mine Safety and Health Administration in the Department of Labor. “(o) ‘Commission’ means the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.”. (c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by inserting “or other” immediately after “coal”. (d) Section 5(c) of such Act is amended by striking out “Labor” and inserting in lieu thereof “the Interior”.