Standards for Sanitary Toilets in Coal Mines

This final rule removes the application requirement and associated paperwork burden for approval of sanitary toilets in underground and surface coal mines. The final rule provides notice to miners, miners' representatives, mine operators, MSHA compliance specialists, and manufacturers of which sanitary toilets are approved without requiring applications for approval. The rule has no substantive effect on the sanitation standards. The types of approved toilets are drawn from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) American National Standard for Sanitation--Nonsewered Waste-Disposal Systems--Minimum Requirements upon which MSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) previously based approval of applications.