[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1407]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among
Coal Mine Workers; Appointment of Advisory Committee Members; Meeting
AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice of appointment of members to the Advisory Committee on
the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among Coal Mine Workers; and notice
of meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the appointment of members to the
Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among Coal Mine
Workers, and announces the date, time, and place for the first meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia W. Silvey, Director, Office
of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, Mine Safety and Health
Administration, 4015 Wilson Boulevard, room 631, Arlington, Virginia
22203; phone 703-235-1910.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Appointment of Members
This notice announces the appointment of members to the Advisory
Committee on the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among Coal Mine Workers,
established pursuant to sections 101(a) and 102(c) of the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act.
The Secretary of Labor appointed this advisory committee to develop
recommendations for improved standards or other appropriate actions
addressing: permissible exposure limits to eliminate black lung disease
and silicosis; the means to control respirable coal mine dust levels;
improved monitoring of respirable coal dust levels and the role of the
miner in that monitoring; and the adequacy of operator sampling
programs to determine the actual levels of dust concentrations to which
miners are exposed (60 FR 5947). The Advisory Committee is chartered
through September 30, 1996 (60 FR 55284).
The members were selected on the basis of their experience and
knowledge in mine health and safety and related fields. Consistent with
the Mine Act, the membership of the committee and the categories of
interest represented are as follows:
Neutrals
Dr. David Wegman (Chair of the Advisory Committee), Chairman of the
Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts.
Dr. John Dement, Associate Professor in the Division of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Kathleen Kreiss, Director of the Occupational and Environmental
Medicine Division at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and
Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Raja Ramani, Head of the Department of Mineral Engineering at
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Carol Rice, Associate Professor of Environmental Health at
Kettering Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Labor
Joseph Main, Administrator of the Department of Occupational Health
and Safety at the United Mine Workers of America, Washington, DC.
Dr. James Weeks, Associate Research Professor in the Division of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the George Washington
University, Washington, DC.
Industry
Dr. John Gibbs, Vice-President of Health Management and Corporate
Medical Director of the Kerr-McGee Corporation, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.
Joseph Lamonica, Vice-President for Health, Safety, and Training at
the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc., Washington, DC.
B. Notification of First Meeting
Under sections 101(a) and 102(c) of the Mine Act, a public meeting
of the advisory committee will be held between the hours of 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. on February 21 and 22, 1996 at the Quality Hotel--Arlington
(Madison Room) located at 1200 North Courthouse Road, Arlington,
Virginia 22201; phone 703-524-4000.
The purpose of the meeting is: (1) to give a historical overview on
the respirable coal mine dust program and the risk to miners of coal
workers' pneumoconiosis; (2) to allow the committee members to become
familiar with the issues involved; and (3) to set an agenda for the
committee to follow during its six-month tenure.
The public is invited to attend. The chairperson will provide an
hour at the end of the meeting to allow interested persons to make
comments. Official records of the meeting will be available for public
inspection at the above address.
Dated: January 19, 1996.
J. Davitt McAteer,
Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 96-1407 Filed 1-25-96; 8:45 am]
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