The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is seeking applications for its Mine Health And Safety State Grants to expanding job quality and creating equitable pathways to safe, stable, good-paying jobs that allow workers the right to organize.
Donor Name: Mine Safety and Health Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/12/2023
Size of the Grant: $800,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
One of the Secretary of Labor’s goals for the U.S. workforce is to build a modern, inclusive workforce. As outlined in the Department’s FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, strategic goal 2 is to “Ensure Safe Jobs, Essential Protections, and Fair Workplaces.” MSHA’s role in accomplishing this objective is to “prevent fatalities, disease, and injury from mining, and secure safe and healthful working conditions for America’s miners.” 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 recognizes that state training programs are a key source of mine safety and health training and education for individuals who work or will work at mines. MSHA encourages state training programs to prioritize health and safety training for small mining operations and underserved mines and miners within the mining industry , and to prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. MSHA is also interested in supporting programs that emphasize training on miners’ statutory rights, including the right to be provided a safe and healthy working environment, to refuse an unsafe task, and to have a voice in the safety and health conditions at the mine. The Agency encourages grantees to address, in their training and education programs, occupational health hazards cause by exposures to respirable dust and crystalline silica, powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, contract and customer truck drivers, improving training for new and inexperienced miners, managers and supervisors performing mining tasks, pillar safety for underground mines, and falls from heights.
The Agency encourages grantees to focus training programs on the causes and prevention of fatal accidents that have occurred in the mining industry.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,537,000
- Award Ceiling: $800,000
Period of Performance
MSHA is requesting applications for FY 2023. The application should include the performance period of 12 months starting October 1, 2022 and ending September 30, 2023. MSHA will notify grantees the amount of their FY 2023 awards.
Eligible Applicants
Under section 503(a) of the Mine Act, any state in which mining takes place may apply for a grant. Under this grant program, the Governor must designate who will apply for the grant on behalf of the state. The applicant may be a state or local government agency or other state supported or local government-supported institution of higher education, and tribal or territorial government and tribal- or territorial-supported institution of higher education. Once designated by the Governor, the following organizations are eligible to apply:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Additional Information
MSHA requests the following information from institutions of higher education for their status as an accepted, recognized, or accredited Minority Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. Please identify if you are a Minority Serving Institution, such as African American serving institution, predominantly Black, or Historically Black College and University; Hispanic serving institution; American Indian and Alaska Native-serving institution; Tribal College and University; and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
