Safety and Health Administration launched an enforcement initiative to protect miners from the health hazards of respirable crystalline silica. Under this initiative, the Mine Safety and Health Administration will conduct inspections on silica hazards and expand silica sampling at mines. The Mine Safety and Health Administration will also provide mine operators with compliance assistance and best practices to limit miners’ exposure to harmful silica dust. I Black lung benefits A Improving the process for filing and adjudicating claims for benefits 101. Providing assistance with claims for miners and their dependent family members Section 427(a) of the Black Lung Benefits Act ( 30 U.S.C. 937(a) ) is amended by striking the analysis, examination, and treatment and all that follows through coal miners. and inserting the analysis, examination, and treatment of respiratory and pulmonary impairments in active and inactive coal miners and for assistance on behalf of miners, spouses, dependents, and other family members with claims arising under this title. 102. Clarifying eligibility for black lung benefits Section 411(c) of the Black Lung Benefits Act ( 30 U.S.C. 921(c) ) is amended by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following: (3) (A) If x-ray, CT scan, biopsy, autopsy, or other medically accepted and relevant test or procedure establishes that a miner is suffering or has suffered from a chronic dust disease of the lung, diagnosed as complicated pneumoconiosis or progressive massive fibrosis (as determined in accordance with subparagraph (B)), then there shall be an irrebuttable presumption that such miner is totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis, that the miner’s death was due to pneumoconiosis, or that at the time of death the miner was totally disabled by pneumoconiosis, as the case may be. (B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), complicated pneumoconiosis or progressive massive fibrosis can be established by any of the following: (i) A chest radiograph, which yields one or more large opacities whose