A bill to amend the black lung benefits provisions of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 to extend these benefits to miners who incur silicosis in iron mines.

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Revises the purpose of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act to provide benefits to iron miners who are totally disabled due to silicosis (expanding the coverage of such Act from coal miners disabled due to pneumoconiosis). Directs the Secretary of Labor to formulate, and submit to the Congress, recommendations for appropriate legislative action which would accord to workers in other industries, who by reason of their employment are threatened with pneumoconiosis or similar lung disease, protection (for themselves, their dependents, and survivors) comparable to that accorded to coal and iron miners (and their dependents and survivors) under the Federal Coal Mine Health Safety Act.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 5 February 1975

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