Pub. L. 112-74, div. F, tit. I (as amended)

112.None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce the proposed rule entitled Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors regulation published by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) of the Department of Labor on October 19, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 64412, RIN 1219-AB64) until—(1)the Government Accountability Office—(A)issues, at a minimum, an interim report which—(i)evaluates the completeness of MSHA’s data collection and sampling, to include an analysis of whether such data supports current trends of the incidence of lung disease arising from occupational exposure to respirable coal mine dust across working underground coal miners; and(ii)assesses the sufficiency of MSHA’s analytical methodology; and(B)not later than 240 days after enactment of this Act, submits the report described in subparagraph (A) to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate; or(2)the deadline described in paragraph (1)(B) for submission of the report has passed.