FUNDING AVAILABILITY IS RESTRICTED TO STATE GOVERNMENTS AND FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBES.
The Office of Surface Mining awards grants to States and Tribes to support the operation of APPROVED State and Trival abanodned 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 occurred prior to August 7, 1977 as well as certain post-1977 and noncoal mining activity.