Violet Keener v. Eastern Associated Coal Corporation, Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United Statements Department of Labor

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

The Benefits Review Board of the Department of Labor affirmed a Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge’s decision denying Violet Keener survivor benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act, 30 U.S.C. §§ 901-945. Mrs. Keener petitions for review of that decision on the ground that it lacked substantial evidentiary support in the record. We affirm the decision of the Benefits Review Board.

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Bernard Keener, who mined coal for at least forty years before his death in 1987, applied to the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) for…