Office of Surface Mining

Description

FUNDING AVAILABILITY IS RESTRICTED TO STATE GOVERNMENTS AND FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBES. The Office of Surface Mining award grants to States and Tribes to support the operation of APPROVED State and Tribal abandoned mine land (AML) reclamation programs. Approved programs use grant funds for mine site reclamation projects on eligible lands, which are lands and waters mined or affected by coal mining processess that occured prior to August 7, 1977 (as well as certain post-1977 and noncoal mining activity).

Who can apply

• State governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

Contact

Lafayette Vance, 412-937-2842 <br/>lvance@osmre.gov <br/>Sheila Hartless, 412-937-3007 <br/>shartless@osmre.gov <br/>Jay Bautista, 618-463-6463 <br/>jbautista@osmre.gov <br/>PAUL FRITSCH, 618-463-6463 <br/>PFRITSCH@OSMRE.GOV <br/>Frank Atencio, 303-293-5018 <br/>fatencio@osmre.gov <br/>Daniel Martinez, 505-248-5083 <br/>dnmartinez@osmre.gov <br/>Renata Garris, 202-208-2747 <br/>rgarris@osmre.gov <br/>Marie Sibrell, 202-208-2999 <br/>msibrell@osmre.gov <br/>
lvance@osmre.gov