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| File | Commenter | Date Received |
|---|---|---|
| AB64-COMM-01 | John Taylor Bielecki, MD, MPH, Maine General Medical Center, Workplace Health | 11/01/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-02 | Fred Rweru, Eastern Kentucky University | 11/15/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-03 | David Fitzpatrick, Five Star Mining Inc. | 11/15/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-04 | Stephen A. Sanders, Attorney at Law, Appalachian Citizens' Law Center, Inc. | 11/18/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-05 | Bruce Watzman, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, National Mining Association (NMA) | 11/22/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-06 | Joseph LaMonica, Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc. | 11/22/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-07 | Dennis O'Dell, Administrator, Department of Occupational Health and Safety, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) | 11/23/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-08 | Brandon Tackett | 12/2/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-09 | Mac B. Porter | 12/3/2010 |
| AB64-COMM-10 | Leonard Fleming | 2/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-11 | Keith Laslow, P.G., Vice President, Independent Miners & Associates, Inc., Anthracite Underground Miners | 2/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-12 | Alfred J. Brown, President, Independent Miners & Associates, Inc., Anthracite Underground Miners | 2/22/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-13 | Katherine H. Kirkland, MPH, Executive Director, Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics | 2/24/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-14 | Natalie P. Hartenbaum, MD, MPH, FACOEM, President, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | 2/28/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-15 | Ron Slaton | 3/3/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-16 | Wesley T. Campbell, Manager of Safety and Training, Tri County Coal Co., LLC, Crown III Mine | 3/4/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-17 | John D. Blankenship, TECO Energy | 3/11/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-18 | Mark McCowan | 3/14/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-19 | Joe Smith | 3/22/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-20 | Ashanta Evie Lena Savage | 3/30/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-21 | Perry County Coal Corporation | 4/8/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-22 | Judy Rivlin, Counsel, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) | 4/14/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-23 | Bruce Watzman, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, National Mining Association (NMA) | 4/14/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-24 | Beau Zoeller, Indiana University School of Law | 4/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-25 | David A. Gooch, President, Coal Operators & Associates, Inc. | 4/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-26 | Stuart A. Sanderson, President, Colorado Mining Association | 4/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-27 | George Ellis, President, Pennsylvania Coal Association | 4/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-28 | Michael T.W. Carey, President, Ohio Coal Association | 4/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-29 | Bill Bissett, President, Kentucky Coal Association | 4/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-30 | Chris R. Hamilton, Vice President, West Virginia Coal Association | 4/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-31 | J. Nathan Noland, President, Indiana Coal Council, Inc. | 4/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-32 | Phillip M. Gonet, President, Illinois Coal Association | 4/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-33 | David Roberson, President, Alabama Coal Association | 4/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-34 | David M. Young, President, Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc. | 4/21/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-35 | Carol Rice, Ph.D., CIH, Professor, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati | 5/2/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-36 | Shelly Rigsby, Program Coordinator, Southern Illinois and Southwest Indiana Respiratory Disease Program | 5/2/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-37 | Joe Massie, President, National Black Lung Association | 5/2/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-38 | Robert Cohen, M.D., F.C.C.P., Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospitals System | 5/3/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-39 | Hannah Morgan, Field Organizer in southwest Virginia Coalfields, Sierra Club | 5/3/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-40 | Michael T. Brandt, DrPH, CIH, PMP, AIHA President, American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) | 5/5/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-41 | Paul A. Schulte, Ph.D., Director, Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) | 5/5/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-42 | Dean E. Schraufnagel MD, President, American Thoracic Society (ATS) | 5/5/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-43 | Robert A. Weber, Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Technical Service, 3M Occupational Health and Environmental Safety Division | 5/5/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-44 | Frank Barker | 5/16/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-45 | Thomas E. McNider, Walter Energy, Jim Walter Resources | 5/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-46 | Irene Estep | 5/18/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-47 | Edgar J. Huggins | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-48 | Chester Baker | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-49 | Ample Hill | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-50 | Floyd Ratliff | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-51 | Anna Mae Holt | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-52 | Billy J. Maggard | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-53 | Don Hayes Sr. | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-54 | Erik Vermulen, CIH | 5/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-55 | Mrs. Young | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-56 | Stephen A. Sanders, Attorney at Law, Appalachian Citizens' Law Center, Inc. | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-57 | Bobby D. Branham | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-58 | Ralph Varney | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-59 | Ronald Martin | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-60 | Lois J. Belcher | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-61 | Black Panther Mining, Inc. | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-62 | Five Star Mining, Inc. | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-63 | Stephen A. Sanders, Attorney at Law, Appalachian Citizens' Law Center, Inc. | 5/23/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-64 | Thurman Holcomb, Arch Coal | 5/25/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-65 | Paul Burke | 5/26/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-66 | Helen Taylor | 5/31/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-67 | Randall Hall | 5/31/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-68 | Clarrice Howard | 6/2/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-69 | Novella Mullis | 6/6/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-70 | Leslie I. Boden, PhD, Richard Clapp, DSc, MPH, Andrea M. Hricko, MPH, Katherine H. Kirkland, DrPH, MPH, Charles Levenstein, PhD, MSOH, Gerald Markowitz, PhD, J.Davitt McAteer, JD, Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, Karen B. Mulloy, DO, David Ozonoff, MD, MPH, Carol Rice, PhD, CIH, Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA, Beth Rosenberg, ScD, MPH, David Rosner, PhD, and David H. Wegman, MD, MPH | 6/10/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-71 | Anthony S. Bumbico, Vice President of Safety, Arch Coal, Inc. | 6/14/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-72 | Mark O. Eslinger, P.E., General Safety Manager, Five Star Mining, Inc., Black Panther Mining, LLC | 6/15/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73 | Edward M. Green, Crowell & Moring LLP, on behalf of: Alliance Coal, Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal, BHP Billiton New Mexico Coal, Murray Energy Corporation, and Peabody Energy | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-1 | John F. Gamble, Ph.D., Curriculum Vitae, 2006 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-2 | Robert Bernier Reger, Curriculum Vitae | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-3 | Robert E. Glenn, CIH, M.P.H., Glen Consulting Group, LLC, Curriculum Vitae | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-4 | Coal workers' pneumoconiosis in the United States: regional differences 40 years after implementation of the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Eva Suarthana, A Scott Laney, Eileen Storey, Janet M Hale, Michael D Attfield | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-5 | A Critical Review of the Paper "Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis in the United States: Regional Differences 40 Years After Implementation of the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act" By Suarthana, E., Laney, A.S., Storey, E., Et Al., Robert E. Glenn, MPH, CIH, June 10, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-6 | Energy West Mining Company's Petition for Rulemaking to Amend 30 CFR Part 70 Mandatory Health Standards—Underground Coal Mines to Allow Use of Airstream Helmets or Other NIOSH-Approved Powered Air-Purifying Respirators as a Supplemental Means of Compliance with Respirable Dust Standards, September 10,1997 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-73-7 | "A Critical Review of the Scientific Basis for MSHA's Proposal for Lowering the Coal Mine Dust Standard, John F. Gamble, PhD, Robert B. Reger, PhD, Robert E. Glenn, MPH, CIH, May 27, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74 | Bruce Watzman, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, National Mining Association | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-1 | Prevalence of Small Lung Opacities in Populations Unexposed to Dusts: A Literature Analysis, John D. Meyer, Syed S. Islam, Alan M. Ducatman and Robert J. McCunney, CHEST 1997. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-2 | Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Prevalence, Centers for Disease Control: Enhanced Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (2007-2009) | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-3 | Coal workers' pneumoconiosis in the United States: regional differences 40 years after implementation of the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Eva Suarthana, A Scott Laney, Eileen Storey, Janet M Hale, Michael D Attfield | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-4 | Pneumoconiosis among underground bituminous coal miners in the United States: is silicosis becoming more frequent?, A Scott Laney, Edward L Petsonk and Michael Attfield, Occup. Environ. Med., September 22, 2009 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-5 | A Review of the Scientific Basis for MSHA's Proposal for Lowering the Coal Mine Dust Standard, John F. Gamble, PhD, Robert Reger, PhD, and Robert E. Glenn, MPH | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-6 | An Evidence Based Review of the Literature Supporting the Mine Safety & Health Administration Proposed Coal Mine Dust Rule, Prepared for the National Mining Association by Dr. David Rosenberg, April 18, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-7 | Comments of the National Mining Association (NMA) on "A Review of Information Published Since 1995 on Coal Mine Dust Exposures and Associated Health Outcomes", Bruce Watzman, Senior Vice President, NMA, September 24, 2010 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-8 | Advanced Cases of Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis—Two Counties, Virginia, 2006, VC Antao, MD, EL Petsonk, MD, MD Attfield, PhD, Div of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health CDC, August 25, 2006, A Critical Review of the Data Used to Support the Articles Findings | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-9 | Analysis of MSHA Coal Dust Sampling Data Base & The Impact Of The MSHA Proposed Rule, Presented by Mark Watson and Heath Lovell, Alliance Coal, LLC, February 15, 2011 at MSHA's Hearing on Proposed Coal Dust Regulations, National Mining Association | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-10 | A Critical Review MSHA's Proposal for Control Measures to be Employed in Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Comments on Requirements for Designated Area Sampling and for Personal Sampling Devices to Remain with the Occupation or Designated Area being Sampled, Prepared by Robert E. Glenn, MPH, May 4, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-11 | Comments on One Provision of the Proposed Rules for "Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust,...", Gary M. Hartsog, PE & PS (SU), Alpha Engineering Services, Inc., Beckley, WV, February 15, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-12 | MSHA's Draft Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) of RCMD: Current flaws and possible fixes, Comments of Dr. Tony Cox, Cox & Associates on behalf of the National Mining Association, February 15, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-13 | Flaws in MSHA's Support for its Proposed Rule on Respirable Dust, NMA, June 20, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-14 | Will Single Full-shift Samples of Respirable Dust Accurately Represent the Long-term Compliance Status for Respirable Coal Mine Dust Exposures?, Prepared for National Coal Association, Washington, DC, May 18, 1994, Prepared by Sciences International, Inc. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-15 | A review and critique of the MSHA proposed regulation (October 19, 2010) for evaluation and control of respirable coal mine dust exposures, Industrial Hygiene Specialty Resources, LLC, April 26, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-16 | An Evaluation of Suggestions of Rapidly Progressing Coal Mine Workers Pneumoconiosis (CWP) Supporting Major US Policy Changes, Industrial Hygiene Specialty Resources, October 25, 2010 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-74-17 | Comments on MSHA's Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) for RCMD, Final Report to the National Mining Association, Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr., March 11, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-75 | J. Nathan Noland, President, Indiana Coal Council, Inc. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-76 | Phillip M. Gonet, President, Illinois Coal Association | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-77 | David Hales, Manager, Safety and Regulatory Compliance, San Juan Coal Company | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-78 | David Gooch, President, Coal Operators & Associates, Inc. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-79 | Bill Bissett, President, Kentucky Coal Association | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-80 | Chris Hamilton, Senior Vice President, West Virginia Coal Association | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-81 | John Gallick, Vice President - Safety and Health, Alpha Natural Resources Services, Inc. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-82 | Norma Thomas | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-83 | Linda Raisovich-Parsons, United Mine Workers of America | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-84 | David M Young, President BCOA and Dennis O'Dell, Administrator, UMWA Department of Occupational Health and Safety, submitted by UMWA | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-85 | Randel K. Johnson, Senior Vice President, Labor, Immigration and Employee Benefits and Marc Freedman, Executive Director, Labor Law Policy, Immigration and Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-86 | George Ellis, President, Pennsylvania Coal Association (PCA) | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-86-1 | Letter from Dale Broadwater, Executive Director, Coal Mine Compensation Rating Bureau of Pennsylvania to George Ellis, President, PCA which addresses Federal Black Lung claims filed and awarded in the period 2000-2009, February 16, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-87 | David M Young, President, Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc. (BCOA) | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-88 | David M Young, President BCOA and Dennis O'Dell, Administrator, UMWA Department of Occupational Health and Safety, submitted by BCOA | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-89 | John Heard, Legislative Counsel, The Virginia Coal Association, Inc. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-90 | J. Clifford Forrest, President, Rosebud Mining Company | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-91 | Alan Matta, Production Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92 | Robert E. Murray, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Murray Energy Corporation | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-1 | Attachment A, Public Comments on MSHA's Proposed Rule: Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, Specific Comments on: Preliminary Regulatory Economic Analysis, Prepared for Murray Energy Corporation, Prepared by Robin C. Cantor, Ph.D., Exponent, Inc., April 27, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-2 | Public Comments on MSHA's Proposed Rule: Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, Specific Comments on: Quantitative Risk Assessment, Prepared for Murray Energy Corporation, Prepared by Richard Reiss, ScD, MS, and Kenneth Bogen, DrPH, MPH, DABT, Exponent, Inc., April 27, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-3 | Attachment C, Public Comments on MSHA's Proposed Rule: Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, Comments Specific to: Industrial Hygiene and Medical Surveillance Issues, Prepared for Murray Energy Corporation, Prepared by Michael N. Cooper, MPH, CIH, and Sheila McCarthy, MHS, CIH, Exponent, Inc., April 28, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-4 | Attachment D.1, Public Comments on MSHA's Proposed Rule: Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, Laboratory Testing of Continuous Personal Dust Monitor (CPDM), Prepared for Murray Energy Corporation, Alliance Natural Resources, Arch Coal, Inc., Illinois Coal Association, Indiana Coal Council, Prepared by Michael Cooper, CIH, and Sheila McCarthy, CIH, Exponent, Inc., April 28, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-4.1 | Attachment D.2, Final Test Report No. 2341-B, Environmental Test Report for Settling Dust, Temperature/Humidity, Drop, Shock and Radiated Susceptibility Testing applied to Four (4) Personal Dust Monitors P/N 42-009904 in accordance with MIL-STD-810F, Environmental Engineering Considerations and Laboratory Tests, Dated 1 January 2000 and Customers Verbal Instructions, Submitted to: Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, by Kenneth C. Malley, Jr., CEO, E-LABS, Inc., April 20, 2011; Talcum Powder Specification Sheet, R.T. Vanderbilt Company, Inc., 2005; Forensic Analytical Laboratories Report, 2011. | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-5 | Attachment E, Public Comments on MSHA's Proposed Rule: Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, Specific Comments on: MSHA Review of Medical Monitoring and Epidemiologic Studies, Prepared for Murray Energy Corporation, Prepared by Michael Kelsh, PhD, MPH, and Martha L. Doemland, PhD, MS, Exponent, Inc., April 28, 2011 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-6 | Attachment F, Comments of Janet Torma-Krajewski, PhD, CIH, CPE | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-92-7 | Attachment G., Additional Comments of Murray Energy Corporation on MSHA's Proposed Rule on Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors: RIN 1219-AB64 | 6/20/2011 |
| AB64-COMM-93 | Jeffery L. Kohler, Associate Director for Mining, and Director, Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control, NIOSH Analysis of Comments Questioning the Use of the CPDM | 5/24/2011 |
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