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Title 20 - Employees' Benefits

Chapter VI - Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor

SubChapter B - Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as Amended

Part 718 - Standards for Determining Coal Miners' Total Disability or Death Due to Pneumoconiosis

Subpart D - Presumptions Applicable to Eligibility Determinations

§ 718.302 - Relationship of pneumoconiosis to coal mine employment.

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§ 718.302 Relationship of pneumoconiosis to coal mine employment.

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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