§ 29.30 - Certificates of approval; scope of approval.

(a) MSHA shall issue certificates of approval pursuant to the provisions of this subpart only for individual, completely assembled portable coal dust/rock dust analyzers and continuous duty, warning light, portable methane detectors which have been examined, inspected, and tested, and which meet the minimum requirements set forth in Subparts G and H, as applicable.

(b) MSHA shall not issue an informal notice of approval. However, if the application for approval, submitted in accordance with § 29.11, states that the submitted analyzer, detector, and component parts are only prototypes, MSHA will examine, inspect, and test such prototype analyzer, detector, and component parts in accordance with the provisions of this Part 29. If, upon completion of such examinations, inspections and tests, it is found that the prototype meets the minimum requirements set forth in this part, MSHA may inform the applicant, in writing, of the results of the examinations, inspections, and tests, and may require him to resubmit analyzers, detectors, and component parts, as applicable, made on regular production tooling, with no operations included which will not be incorporated in regular production processing, for further examination, inspection, and testing, prior to issuance of the certificate of approval.

(c) Applicants required to resubmit analyzers, detectors, and component parts made on regular production tooling, with no operation included which will not be incorporated in regular production processing, shall be charged fees.