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
credit:
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).