MEMORANDUM
ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.
This case presents the question of whether the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 requires the District Court to review de novo, in an enforcement proceeding to collect civil penalties, the factual basis of the violations which resulted in the assessment of the penalties, in addition to a de novo review of the amount of those penalties.
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