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1997 SESSION
970086460Be 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 Chief
shall promulgate regulations that require all new diesel powered outby
equipment with greater than 100 horsepower and all diesel powered inby
equipment placed in service after July 1, 1998, to be equipped with particulate
filters. Such regulations shall also provide that all such outby equipment
with greater than 100 horsepower and all diesel powered inby equipment in
service prior to July 1, 1998, be retrofitted with such particulate filters by
July 1, 2003, or taken out of service. The regulations shall provide that such
requirements for diesel particulate control are effective only if the Chief
finds that such filters have received all appropriate United States Mine Safety
and Health Administration certifications and approvals and are commercially
available. ] 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.
[ 2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless reenacted by the 1998 Session of the General Assembly. ]