[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 16311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8019]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Mine Safety and Health Administration


Petitions for Modification

    This notice revises the safety standard number referenced in a 
petition for modification notice that was published in the Federal 
Register on February 4, 2003 (68 FR 5664), for the Dakota Westmoreland 
Corporation, Beulah Mine. In a letter from the petitioner dated March 
7, 2003, the petitioner requests that the safety standard in its 
petition for modification, docket number M-2003-005-C, be changed from 
30 CFR 77.405(b) to 30 CFR 77.803. The petitioner's request is to 
modify the existing safety standard, 30 CFR 77.803, to allow an 
alternative method to permit its boom/mast machine to be raised or 
lowered during initial dragline assembly or disassembly at construction 
sites. The petitioner asserts that its proposed alternative method 
would not result in a diminution of safety to the miners but would 
provide at least the same measure of protection as the existing 
standard.

    Dated in Arlington, Virginia, this 26th day of March, 2003.
Marvin W. Nichols, Jr.,
Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances.
[FR Doc. 03-8019 Filed 4-2-03; 8:45 am]
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