For Immediate Release
1/8/08

Contact:

Patrick Henderson – Sen. White
(717) 787-9684
Richard Fox – Sen. Musto
(717) 787-7105
Will Dando – Sen. Kasunic
(717) 787-7175

Comprehensive Update of Mine Safety Laws Goes Before Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee

First major rewrite of mine safety laws in more than 45 years.

Harrisburg – The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, chaired by Sen. Mary Jo White (R-21), will meet next week to consider the first comprehensive rewrite of Pennsylvania’s mine safety laws in more than 45 years.  

The meeting will be held Tuesday, January 15 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 8 E-B of the Capitol’s East Wing.

Among its provisions, Senate Bill 949 would create a new Board of Coal Mine Safety to keep Pennsylvania’s mine safety standards regularly updated, provide for greater responsibility for operators to ensure the safety, and enable the state to establish a central database of maps of mines throughout the Commonwealth. 

Senator White, Democratic Committee Chairman Raphael Musto and the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Richard Kasunic, worked closely with Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty, DEP officials, coal mine operators and mine union officials in preparing the legislation. 
 

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