Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is making up to $250,000 available in grant funds for education and training programs to help identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around mines.  The focus of these grants for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 will be training and training materials on powered haulage safety, examinations of working places at metal and nonmetal mines, or mine emergency prevention and preparedness.  Applicants for the grants may be States and Territories (to include the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) and private or public nonprofit entities, to include Indian tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, Indian-controlled organizations serving Indians, and Native Hawaiian organizations.  MSHA could award as many as 5 grants.  The amount of each individual grant will be at least $50,000 and the maximum individual award will be $250,000.  

Government

• State governments
• Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

Education

• Public and state institutions of higher education

Nonprofit

• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)