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  2. Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
  3. Chapter VI - OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
  4. Subchapter B - FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED
  5. Part 718 - STANDARDS FOR DETERMINING COAL MINERS' TOTAL DISABILITY OR DEATH DUE TO PNEUMOCONIOSIS
  6. Subpart D - Presumptions Applicable to Eligibility Determinations
  7. 20 CFR § 718.302
20 CFR § 718.302
Relationship of pneumoconiosis to coal mine employment
February 18, 2021
CFR

If a miner who is suffering or suffered from pneumoconiosis was employed for ten years or more in one or more coal mines, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the pneumoconiosis arose out of such employment. (See §718.203.)

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