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HOUSE BILL NO. 2844 Offered January 20, 1997 A BILL to amend and reenact § 45.1-161.206 of the Code of Virginia, relating to diesel-powered mining equipment. ---------- Patrons-- Stump and Phillips ---------- Referred to Committee on Mining and Mineral Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 45.1-161.206 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 45.1-161.206. Diesel powered equipment.

Diesel powered equipment may be utilized underground with the written approval of the Chief. The Chief shall promulgate regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. The regulations shall require that the air in each travel way in which diesel equipment is used, and in any active workings connected thereto, be of a quality necessary for a safe, healthful working environment. The regulations shall require that any new diesel powered equipment utlized underground after July 1, 1997, be equipped with scrubbers and that all diesel powered equipment utilized underground after July 1, 2002, be equipped with scrubbers. The minimum quantity of ventilating air that must be supplied for a permissible diesel machine in a given time shall conform to that shown on the approval plate attached to the machine. All diesel machines and equipment shall be maintained in such manner that the exhaust emissions meet the same standards to which the machine or equipment was manufactured.