[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 30CFR41.1]

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                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 41--NOTIFICATION OF LEGAL IDENTITY--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A--Definitions
 
Sec. 41.1  Definitions.


    As used in this part:
    (a) Operator means any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, 
controls, or supervises a coal or other mine or any designated 
independent contractor performing services or construction at such mine.
    (b) Person means any individual, sole proprietor, partnership, 
association, corporation, firm, subsidiary of a corporation, or other 
organization.
    (c) Coal or other mine means (a) an area of land from which minerals 
are extracted in nonliquid form or, if in liquid form, are extracted 
with workers underground, (b) private ways and roads appurtenant to such 
area, and (c) lands, excavations, underground passageways, shafts, 
slopes, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, 
machines, tools, or other property including impoundments, retention 
dams, and tailings ponds, on the surface or underground, used in, or to 
be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting such minerals from 
their natural deposits in nonliquid form, or if in liquid form, with 
workers underground, or used in, or to be used in, the milling of such 
minerals, or the work of preparing coal or other minerals, and includes 
custom coal preparation facilities. In making a determination of what 
constitutes mineral milling for purposes of this act, the Secretary 
shall give due consideration to the convenience of administration 
resulting from the delegation to one Assistant Secretary of all 
authority with respect to the health and safety of miners employed at 
one physical establishment.

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