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December 3, 2025

# What is ARM 24.30.1311. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF RULES REGARDING EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND SAFETY IN MINES OTHER THAN COAL MINES?

## Montana Mine Safety Regulations: Federal Standards Adopted for Public Sector Mining Operations

(1) The department of labor and industry adopts and incorporates by reference the United States department of labor, mine safety and health administration’s regulations, Title 30, Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 56, 57, 58, and 62, revised as of July 1, 2004.   
(2) The regulations incorporated by reference in (1) relate to the following:  
(a) Training and retraining of miners engaged in shell dredging or employed at sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface limestone mines;  
(b) Hazard communication (HAZCOM);  
(c) Training and retraining of miners;  
(d) Mine rescue teams;  
(e) Notification, investigation, reports and records of accidents, injuries, illnesses, employment and production in mines;  
(f) Safety and health standards – surface metal and nonmetal mines;  
(g) Safety and health standards – underground metal and nonmetal mines;  
(h) Health standards for metal and nonmetal mines; and  
(i) Occupational noise exposure.  
(3) Copies of the regulations incorporated by reference in (1) may be obtained at cost from the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 1728, Helena, Montana 59624-1728, or the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, 941 North Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. 20401.

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