---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 71.500"
title: "30"
number: "71.500"
heading: "Sanitary toilet facilities at surface work sites; installation requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/71.500"
---

# §71.500. Sanitary toilet facilities at surface work sites; installation requirements.

- (a) Each operator of a surface coal mine shall provide and install at least one sanitary toilet in a location convenient to each surface work site. A single sanitary toilet may serve two or more surface work sites in the same surface mine where the sanitary toilet is convenient to each such work site.
- (b) Where 10 or more miners use such toilet facilities, sufficient toilets shall be furnished to provide approximately one sanitary toilet for each 10 miners.
- (c) Sanitary toilets shall have an attached toilet seat with a hinged lid and a toilet paper holder together with an adequate supply of toilet tissue.
- (d) Only flush or nonflush chemical or biological toilets, combustion or incinerating toilets, sealed bag toilets, and vault toilets meet the requirements of this section. Privies are prohibited.

## Notes

### Amendments

[68 FR 37087, June 23, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811, 813(h), 957.

### Source

Source: 37 FR 6368, Mar. 28, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[68 FR 37087, June 23, 2003]