Mine health and safety state grants
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- MSHA-2025-1
- Agency
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Mine Safety and Health Administration
Department of Labor
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $800,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Education
- Eligible applicants
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- State Governments
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- City/Township Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- County Governments
- Special District Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Points of contact
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- Ursula A. Frazier frazier.ursula@dol.gov (202) 693-9883
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is soliciting grant applications from state, tribal, and territorial governments to develop and enforce state mining laws, improve workers' compensation programs, and enhance safety conditions in mines. The grant opportunity focuses on supporting training and education programs that address critical areas such as mine emergency preparedness, electrical safety, contract truck driver training, and safety protocols for new and inexperienced miners. Key objectives include emphasizing miners' statutory rights, prioritizing health and safety training for new and small mining operations, and supporting the President's national energy emergency goals for critical mineral discovery and extraction. MSHA will evaluate proposals based on their comprehensive approach to mine safety, alignment with federal priorities, and ability to implement innovative training programs. The application deadline is September 9, 2025, with a performance period from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025.
MSHA plans to award approximately 56 grants totaling $10,537,000 for fiscal year 2025, with each applicant required to provide a 20% matching fund contribution. The grants are available to state governments, county and city governments, special district governments, public higher education institutions, and federally recognized tribal governments. Performance will be monitored through quarterly reports, and grantees must maintain detailed fiscal records and comply with federal regulatory standards. The grants will support mining safety initiatives across various jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, with a particular focus on regions experiencing increased mining activity due to critical mineral exploration.
Synopsis
The Secretary of Labor, through MSHA, may award grants to state, tribal, and territorial governments (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) to assist them in developing and enforcing state mining laws and regulations, improve state workers' compensation and mining occupational disease laws and programs, and improve safety and health conditions in the nation's mines through Federal-State coordination and cooperation.
MSHA encourages grantees to address, in their training and education programs, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, contract and customer truck drivers, improving training for new and inexperienced miners, managers and supervisors performing mining tasks, pillar safety for underground mines, and falls from heights. MSHA also encourages state training programs to prioritize health and safety training for new mines and small mining operations. MSHA is interested in supporting programs that emphasize training on miners' statutory rights, including the right to a safe working environment and the right to refuse an unsafe task.
Applicants are encouraged, where applicable, to propose activities that support the President's goals. The President has declared a National Energy Emergency to discover and mine critical minerals. Exec. Order No. 14156, Declaring a National Energy Emergency (2025). To increase the response, on March 20, 2025, the President also directed the appropriate federal agencies to take immediate actions to increase mineral production. Exec. Order No. 14241, Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production (2025). In response, the mining industry may experience increases in the reopening of idled mines and developing new mines in the search for these critical minerals. With these increases, new and innovative programs to train new miners or retrain miners for extracting specific critical minerals are vital. MSHA is also recommending that grantees, as applicable, develop or create training and compliance assistance programs to assist operators extracting critical minerals. The Department of Energy published a list of critical materials for energy, Federal Register :: Notice of Final Determination on 2023 DOE Critical Materials List. The Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, in consultation with other federal agencies published the list of critical minerals, What are Critical Minerals? | U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov). Moreover, on April 8, 2025, the President amended Exec. Order No. 14241 and declared coal a critical mineral. Exec. Order No. 14261, Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241 (2025).
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