[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2006]
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[CITE: 30CFR77]

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                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 77_MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS, SURFACE COAL MINES AND SURFACE WORK 
AREAS OF UNDERGROUND COAL MINES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart R_Miscellaneous
 
Sec.  77.1713  Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; 
reports of inspection.

    (a) At least once during each working shift, or more often if 
necessary for safety, each active working area and each active surface 
installation shall be examined by a certified person designated by the 
operator to conduct such examinations for hazardous conditions and any 
hazardous conditions noted during such examinations shall be reported to 
the operator and shall be corrected by the operator.
    (b) If any hazardous condition noted during an examination conducted 
in accordance with paragraph (a) of this section creates an imminent 
danger, the person conducting such examination shall notify the operator 
and the operator shall withdraw all persons from the area affected, 
except those persons referred to in section 104(d) of the Act, until the 
danger is abated.
    (c) After each examination conducted in accordance with the 
provisions of paragraph (a) of this section, each certified person who 
conducted all or any part of the examination required shall enter with 
ink or indelible pencil in a book approved by the Secretary the date and 
a report of the condition of the mine or any area of the mine which he 
has inspected together with a report of the nature and location of any 
hazardous condition found to be present at the mine. The book in which 
such entries are made shall be kept in an area at the mine designated by 
the operator to minimize the danger of destruction by fire or other 
hazard.
    (d) All examination reports recorded in accordance with the 
provisions of paragraph (c) of this section shall include a report of 
the action taken to abate hazardous conditions and shall be signed or 
countersigned each day by at least one of the following persons:
    (1) The surface mine foreman;
    (2) The assistant superintendent of the mine;
    (3) The superintendent of the mine;
    (4) The person designated by the operator as responsible for health 
and safety at the mine; or,
    (5) An equivalent mine official.

(Pub. L. No. 96-511, 94 Stat. 2812 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.))

[36 FR 9364, May 22, 1971, as amended at 60 FR 33723, June 29, 1995; 63 
FR 58613, Oct. 30, 1998]