Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972. Title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 showing changes made by Public Law 92-303, approved May 19, 1972. Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session

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OSTI ID:7150307

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 or who were totally disabled by this disease at the time of their deaths; 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 title 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 or who were totally disabled by this disease at the time of their deaths; 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.

• Research Organization: Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (U.S. Senate), Washington, D.C. Subcommittee on Labor
• OSTI ID: 7150307
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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