[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 155 (Tuesday, August 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47945-47946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-20438]


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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-2003-054-C]

    Jim Walter Resources, Inc., P.O. Box 133, Brookwood, Alabama 35444 
has filed a petition to modify the application of 30 CFR 75.503 
(Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance) to its No. 4 Mine 
(MSHA I.D. No. 01-01247) located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The 
petitioner requests a modification of the existing standard to allow 
use of extended length cables on underground coal mining equipment. The 
petitioner proposes to use the extended length cable to power 2,400-
volt continuous mining machines. 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.

2. Jim Walter Resources, Inc.

[Docket No. M-2003-055-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 
(Location of trolley wires, trolley feeder wires, high-voltage cables 
and transformers) to its No. 4 Mine (MSHA I.D. No. 01-01247) located in 
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The petitioner proposes to use 2,400-volt 
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, 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 September 11, 2003. 
Copies of these petitions are available for inspection at that address.


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    Dated at Arlington, Virginia this 5th day of August 2003.
Marvin W. Nichols, Jr.,
Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances.
[FR Doc. 03-20438 Filed 8-11-03; 8:45 am]
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