[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 30, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 30CFR71.500]



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                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES

 

  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 71_MANDATORY HEALTH STANDARDS_SURFACE COAL MINES AND SURFACE WORK 

AREAS OF UNDERGROUND COAL MINES--Table of Contents

 

  Subpart F_Sanitary Toilet Facilities at Surface Worksites of Surface 

                               Coal Mines

 

Sec.  71.500  Sanitary toilet facilities at surface work sites; 

installation requirements.





    (a) Each operator of a surface coal mine shall provide and install 

at least one sanitary toilet in a location convenient to each surface 

work site. A single sanitary toilet may serve two or more surface work 

sites in the same surface mine where the sanitary toilet is convenient 

to each such work site.

    (b) Where 10 or more miners use such toilet facilities, sufficient 

toilets shall be furnished to provide approximately one sanitary toilet 

for each 10 miners.

    (c) Sanitary toilets shall have an attached toilet seat with a 

hinged lid and a toilet paper holder together with an adequate supply of 

toilet tissue.

    (d) Only flush or nonflush chemical or biological toilets, 

combustion or incinerating toilets, sealed bag toilets, and vault 

toilets meet the requirements of this section. Privies are prohibited.



    Note to paragraph (d): Sanitary toilet facilities for surface work 

areas of underground mines are subject to the provisions of Sec.  

75.1712-3 of this chapter.)



[68 FR 37087, June 23, 2003]