[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10048-10049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4860]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Mine Safety and Health Administration


Petitions for Modification

    The following parties have filed petitions to modify the 
application of existing safety standards under section 101(c) of the 
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977.

1. Jim Walter Resources, Inc.

[Docket No. M-2003-010-C]

    Jim Walter Resources, Inc., P.O. Box 133, Brookwood, Alabama 35444 
has filed a petition to modify the application of 30 CFR 75.1002 
(Installation of electric equipment and conductors; permissibility) to 
its No. 7 Mine (MSHA I.D. No. 01-01401) located in Tuscaloosa County, 
Alabama. The petitioner proposes to use a 2,400-volt power center with 
a high-voltage trailing cable to power a continuous miner inby the last 
open crosscut and within 150 feet of pillar workings. The petitioner 
has listed in this petition for modification specific terms and 
conditions that would be followed when its proposed alternative method 
is implemented. The petitioner asserts that the proposed alternative 
method would provide at least the same measure of protection as the 
existing standard.

Request for Comments

    Persons interested in these petitions are encouraged to submit 
comments via e-mail to [email protected], or on a computer disk along 
with an original hard copy to the Office of Standards,

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Regulations, and Variances, Mine Safety and Health Administration, 1100 
Wilson Boulevard, Room 2352, Arlington, Virginia 22209. All comments 
must be postmarked or received in that office on or before April 2, 
2003. Copies of these petitions are available for inspection at that 
address.

    Dated at Arlington, Virginia, this 25th day of February, 2003.
Marvin W. Nichols, Jr.,
Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances.
[FR Doc. 03-4860 Filed 2-28-03; 8:45 am]
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