# Specifications for Medical Examinations of Coal Miners
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Final rule. · Published 2016-10-24 · Effective 2016-11-23 · 81 FR 73270
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-24405
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 73270
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 37
- **Publication date:** 2016-10-24
- **Effective date:** 2016-11-23
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. CDC-2014-0011
## Abstract

With this action, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in accordance with recent rulemaking by the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), finalizes amendments to Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program regulations to establish standards for the approval of facilities to conduct spirometry and requires that all coal mine operators submit a plan for the provision of spirometry testing and X-ray examinations to all surface and underground coal miners.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/24/2016-24405/specifications-for-medical-examinations-of-coal-miners)
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