[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 55366-55367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22032]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

42 CFR Part 37

[Docket No. CDC-2014-0011; NIOSH-276]
RIN 0920-AA57


Specifications for Medical Examinations of Coal Miners

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS.

ACTION: Interim final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On August 4, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services 
(HHS) published an interim final rule to amend its regulations to 
establish standards for the approval of facilities that conduct 
spirometry examinations and to require that all coal mine operators 
submit a plan for the provision of spirometry and X-ray examinations to 
all surface and underground coal miners. The title of Part 37 was not 
properly amended to reflect the application of these provisions to all 
coal miners, including miners who work in or at surface coal mines, and 
not only underground coal miners.

DATES: Effective September 16, 2014, and applicable beginning August 4, 
2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. Scott Laney, Research 
Epidemiologist, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, 1095 Willowdale Road, MS HG900.2, 
Morgantown, WV 26505-2888; (304) 285-5754 (this is not a toll-free 
number); [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 4, 2014, HHS published an interim 
final rule in the Federal Register to amend its regulations in 42 CFR 
Part 37 to establish standards for the approval of facilities that 
conduct spirometry

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examinations and to require that all coal mine operators submit a plan 
for the provision of spirometry and X-ray examinations to all surface 
and underground coal miners [79 FR 45110]. Because it lacked a specific 
amendment doing so, the interim final rule did not revise the part 37 
heading to reflect the application of these provisions to all coal 
miners, including miners who work in or at surface coal mines, and not 
only underground coal miners. This correction revises the heading to 42 
CFR part 37.

List of Subjects in 42 CFR Part 37

    Health care, Lung diseases, Medical research, Mine safety and 
health, Miners.

    For reasons discussed in the preamble, HHS amends 42 CFR part 37 by 
making the following correcting amendment:

PART 37--SPECIFICATIONS FOR MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS OF COAL MINERS

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1. The authority citation for part 37 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: Sec. 203, 83 Stat. 763; 30 U.S.C. 843, unless 
otherwise noted.


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2. The heading for part 37 is revised to read as set forth above.

    Dated: September 10, 2014.
C'Reda Weeden,
Executive Secretary to the Department, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
[FR Doc. 2014-22032 Filed 9-15-14; 8:45 am]
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