20 CFR § 718.206 - Effect of findings by persons or agencies.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s718.206"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 718.206 - Effect of findings by persons or agencies."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "718.206"
section_name: "Effect of findings by persons or agencies."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED"
part_number: "718"
part_name: "STANDARDS FOR DETERMINING COAL MINERS' TOTAL DISABILITY OR DEATH DUE TO PNEUMOCONIOSIS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 301; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; 30 U.S.C. 901  902(f), 934, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901  42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834."
regulatory_source: "45 FR 13678, Feb. 29, 1980, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "718"
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# 718.206 Effect of findings by persons or agencies.

Decisions, statements, reports, opinions, or the like, of agencies, organizations, physicians or other individuals, about the existence, cause, and extent of a miner's disability, or the cause of a miner's death, are admissible. If properly submitted, such evidence shall be considered and given the weight to which it is entitled as evidence under all the facts before the adjudication officer in the claim.