# Specifications for Medical Examinations of Coal Miners
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Interim final rule. · Published 2014-08-04 · Effective 2014-08-04 · 79 FR 45110
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-18336
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 45110
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 37
- **Publication date:** 2014-08-04
- **Effective date:** 2014-08-04
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. CDC-2014-0011
## Abstract

With this action, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in accordance with a final rule recently published by the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is amending 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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/08/04/2014-18336/specifications-for-medical-examinations-of-coal-miners)
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