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Depression (Williams and Woo 1995). The US Department of Labor oversees the system, but each state administers its own programme. Because federal law defines the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands as states for the purposes of UI, there are 53 state programmes (US House of Representatives 2004). 

The OSH Act covers employment in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and most remaining U.S. territories and possessions. However, there are certain jurisdictional hmits under the OSH Act. Operators of mines, as that term is defined in the Mine Act, are exempt under Section 4(b)(1) of the OSH Act because MSHA has primary jurisdiction. As mentioned above, MSHA is a separate agency within the Department of Labor, which regulates mining workplace and exercises authority to promulgate and enforce standards over such facilities, and its activities and powers are discussed in detail elsewhere in this book. 

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