FY25 Bureau of Land Management Environmental Quality Protection- Bureau wide
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- L25AS00303
- Agency
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Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
- Applications due
- Award size
- $50,000 to $1,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Natural Resources
- Eligible applicants
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- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- County Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- State Governments
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- City/Township Governments
- Points of contact
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- Ramon "Luis" Burgos-Candelaria rburgoscandelaria@blm.gov (303) 236-6967
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking cooperative agreement applications for its Fiscal Year 2025 Environmental Quality Protection program, focusing on inventorying and mitigating abandoned mine hazards on public lands. The program aims to protect public health, safety, and the environment by addressing over 160,000 abandoned mine features through the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program. Eligible applicants include state and local governments, tribal organizations, nonprofits, and educational institutions, who will be evaluated based on their project's ability to reduce environmental risks, restore watersheds, and return lands to productive uses. Key objectives include performing environmental surveys, implementing closure methods for high-risk mine sites, and addressing physical safety hazards and contamination. The grant opportunity is open from June 23, 2025, to July 23, 2025, with applications to be reviewed on a merit-based system.
The total program funding is $3,000,000, with approximately 10 awards anticipated, and individual award amounts ranging from $50,000 to $1,000,000. The project period is structured for 60 months, beginning September 1, 2025, and ending August 30, 2030. Projects will be conducted on BLM-administered lands across the United States, with a focus on mitigating environmental degradation caused by historical mining activities. Successful applicants will need to demonstrate comprehensive approaches to site restoration, including cultural and biological surveys, closure methods like fencing and bat-friendly grate installations, and strategies for reducing environmental risks to soil, water, and air quality.
Synopsis
The BLM and its partners inventory and mitigate abandoned mine hazards to protect public health and safety and the environment, and restore watersheds for recreation, fish, wildlife and domestic animals, manage air quality for the protection of public health and sensitive ecosystems, and return lands to productive uses including, but not limited to, recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and preservation of historical/cultural resources. Extractive industry activities of the past, including underground and surface mining have contributed to degradation of natural resources. Unrestored sites pose a threat to the safety and health of public land users, as well as to wildlife, biota, groundwater, surface water, and soil resources.Inventory and mitigation measures are implemented through core programs such as the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program, which addresses physical safety hazards and contamination posing risks to human health and/or the environment. The BLM estimates there are over 160,000 abandoned mine features located on BLM-administered lands, many of which will need to be addressed further.The AML program identifies and inventories abandoned hardrock mines, prioritizes those mines that pose a risk to public safety, human health, and the environment, and seeks funding to address those high-risk mine features and sites. Specifically, the AML program addresses physical safety hazards through performing NEPA, including cultural and biological surveys, a variety of closure methods including fencing, signing, back-filling, installation of bat-friendly grates, etc., and addresses risks to human health and the environment through a variety of removal and remedial response actions. The AML and Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) programs also work to restore abandoned hardrock mines sites and restore the Nation's watersheds impacted by abandoned mines through a risk-reduction based watershed approach that uses partnerships to effectively leverage funding and facilitate projects; and reduces environmental degradation caused by abandoned mines to ensure compliance with all applicable soil, water, and air quality standards, and applicable Federal, State, Tribal, and local laws and regulations. For the NRDAR program, and any actions taken pursuant to BLM"s authority under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, potentially responsible parties must be investigated.The BLM seeks to develop partnerships with States, local governments, Tribal Nations, and voluntary environmental and citizen groups. In addition, BLM seeks to return lands to productive uses including, but not limited to, recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and preservation of historical/cultural resources. These partnerships will provide financial assistance, through cooperative agreements to protect surface water, groundwater, soil, sediment and air from abandoned mine sites, address releases of hazardous substances, safeguard dangerous mine sites, and restore sites.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Foa_Content_of_L25AS00303.pdf | ||
| Attachment B Budget Narrative.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| 15.236 Attachment A.docx | DOCX document |
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