§ 722.152 - The Secretary's list.

(a) In order to provide a ready reference source for any person interested in knowing at any given time which, if any, States’ laws met the currently applicable criteria for approval, it has been determined that provision should be made for listing such States in the Code of Federal Regulations. Accordingly, the Secretary's list of those States having in effect a workmen's compensation law which provides adequate coverage for total disability or death due to pneumoconiosis, as published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 421(b)(1) of the Act, appears in paragraph (b) of this section. When first published on September 7, 1972 (37 FR 18076; see also 37 FR 21429), as provided by the Act, the document listed no such State because there was no State workmen's compensation law which had been found to provide adequate coverage for total disability or death due to pneumoconiosis. The Secretary's list shall be republished in the Federal Register with amendments from time to time as is necessary.

(b) The Secretary, upon examination of State workmen's compensation laws pursuant to the provisions of section 421 of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as amended, and §§ 722.101—722.151, has found that the workmen's compensation law of each of the following listed States, for the period from the date shown in the list until such date as the Secretary may make a contrary determination, provides adequate coverage for pneumoconiosis: