MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY STATE GRANTS
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), under the U.S. Department of Labor, is offering grants totaling $10,537,000 to State, Tribal, and Territorial governments to support the development and enforcement of mining laws, enhance workers’ compensation and occupational disease programs, and improve mine safety and health through federal-state collaboration. The funding opportunity, identified as MSHA-2026-1 and issued under the CFDA number 17.600, targets training and compliance initiatives focused on new and small mining operations, with priority given to hazards such as powered haulage, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, and falls from heights. Applicants are strongly encouraged to incorporate training programs addressing contract employees and the needs of miners returning to or entering the workforce due to the national energy emergency declared in Executive Orders 14156, 14241, and 14261, which classify coal and metallurgical coal as critical minerals. The program supports efforts to expand training capacity for critical mineral extraction, aligning with federal goals to revive domestic mining and ensure safe operations. Grantees must operate under the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (2 C.F.R. Part 200) and comply with multiple federal mandates including drug-free workplace policies, restrictions on lobbying, non-discrimination on the basis of sex, and prohibitions against using funds for religious purposes. Applicants must register in the System for Award Management (SAM) and obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and submit required forms including SF-424, SF-424A, SF-LLL, and an accounting system certification if annual federal award receipt is under $1 million. Proposals must include a detailed project narrative, budget with categories such as personnel, fringe benefits, travel, equipment, supplies, and contractual services, and a commitment to submit quarterly performance and financial reports using MSHA Form 5000-50 and SF-425, along with a final report within 120 days after the grant period ends. The performance period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with applications due by August 10, 2026, via Grants.gov. All materials must include an MSHA disclaimer, records must be retained for at least three years post-final expenditure report, and use of official logos
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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 State training programs to prioritize health and safety training for new and small mining operations. MSHA also encourages grant recipients to address, in their training and education programs, contract employee safety and occupational health hazards, powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, training for new and inexperienced miners, managers and supervisors performing mining tasks, and falls from heights.
Applicants are encouraged, where applicable, to support the President’s goals of increasing the discovery and mining of critical minerals, by developing or creating training and compliance assistance programs to assist operators extracting critical minerals, including coal.
The President has declared a National Energy Emergency to discover and mine critical minerals. Executive Order (EO) 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. EO 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. The Department of Energy (DOE) published a list of critical materials for energy, Federal Register :: Notice of Final Determination on 2023 DOE Critical Materials List. On May 29, 2025, DOE added metallurgical coal used for steelmaking to the Critical Material list, 90 Federal Register 22711 (2025). 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 EO 14241 and declared coal a critical mineral. EO 14261, Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending EO 14241 (2025). On January 12, 2026, the President extended the National Energy Emergency declared in EO 14156 for another year. Notice of January 12, 2026, Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Energy, 91 Federal Register 1667-68 (2026).