# Standards for Sanitary Toilets in Coal Mines
> **Occupational Safety and Health Administration** · Direct final rule; request for comments. · Published 2003-04-21 · Effective 2003-06-20 · 68 FR 19347
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-9655
- **Category:** osha-workplace-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 19347
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 71
- **Publication date:** 2003-04-21
- **Effective date:** 2003-06-20
## Abstract

MSHA is removing an application and approval requirement from existing mandatory standards. Currently, MSHA must approve sanitary toilets for use in underground coal mines, and MSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) must jointly approve sanitary toilets for use in surface coal mines. MSHA and NIOSH base their approval on criteria drawn from the American National Standard Institute's (ANSI's) American National Standard for Sanitation--Nonsewered Waste-Disposal Systems--Minimum Requirements. MSHA is amending its regulations to state which sanitary toilets meet the standard in order to eliminate the need for an application for approval and its associated paperwork burden. This action also directly informs manufacturers, mine operators, miners, and miners' representatives about which sanitary toilets meet the standard. Removing the application requirements has no substantive effect on the sanitation standards.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/04/21/03-9655/standards-for-sanitary-toilets-in-coal-mines)
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