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Coal industry aid bill advances with miner benefits plan
The measure would extend benefits to surface miners, remove chest X rays as the sole denial basis, simplify eligibility for widows, presume underground miners with 15 or more years of service who have a respiratory disorder have black lung, remove social security offsets, and provide aid for orphans and dependent relatives. Critics called it a bailout. supporters argued miners and families deserve fair compensation amid pneumoconiosis. Gov Arch Moore backed the bill amid reelection plans against Rockefeller.
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White House
John Erlenborn
Ill
Treasury
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Arch A. Moore
West Virginia
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