30 U.S.C. § 901 — Congressional findings and declaration of purpose; short title
submitted 57 years ago by Pub. L. 91-173 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 155 words · no verdicts yet
Congress states that many living coal miners are totally disabled by pneumoconiosis and that some miners died from it. This subchapter provides benefits, with the States, for totally disabled miners and surviving dependents, and seeks adequate future benefits.
(a) Congress finds and declares that many coal miners who are alive today are totally disabled by pneumoconiosis* arising from work in one or more United States coal mines; that there are survivors of coal miners whose deaths were due to this disease; and that few States provide death or disability benefits for coal miners or their surviving dependents because of this disease. Therefore, this subchapter’s purpose is to provide benefits, in cooperation with the States, to coal miners totally disabled by pneumoconiosis and to surviving dependents of miners whose deaths resulted from the disease. It also seeks to ensure that, in the future, coal miners and their dependents receive adequate benefits if the miner* dies or becomes totally disabled because of pneumoconiosis.
(b) This subchapter may be cited as the “Black Lung Benefits Act.”
Congress finds and declares that there are a significant number of coal miners living today who are totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis* arising out of employment in one or more of the Nation’s coal mines; that there are a number of survivors of coal miners whose deaths were due to this disease; and that few States provide benefits for death or disability due to this disease to coal miners or their surviving dependents. It is, therefore, the purpose of this subchapter to provide benefits, in cooperation with the States, to coal miners who are totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis and to the surviving dependents of miners whose death was due to such disease; and to ensure that in the future adequate benefits are provided to coal miners and their dependents in the event of their death or total disability* due to pneumoconiosis.
This subchapter may be cited as the “Black Lung Benefits Act”.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 91–173, title IV, § 401, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 792; Pub. L. 92–303, §§ 3(a), 4(b)(2), May 19, 1972, 86 Stat. 153, 154; Pub. L. 95–239, § 16, Mar. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 105; Pub. L. 97–119, title II, § 203(a)(4), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1644.)
- 1969Enacted · Pub. L. 91-173 · 83 Stat. 792
- 1972Amended · Pub. L. 92-303 · 86 Stat. 153, 154
- 1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-239 · 92 Stat. 105
- 1981Amended · Pub. L. 97-119 · 95 Stat. 1644
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