The Department of Environmental Protection will begin accepting applications for abandoned mine reclamation and mine drainage treatment project grants on July 3.  The deadline for applications is August 25.  (formal notice)

A third application period will open October 2 and close December 2.

Funding for these grants is provided by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Eligible applicants include county or municipal governments; county conservation districts; councils of government; municipal authorities; and nonprofit organizations.

Projects eligible for a grant through the AML/AMD Grant Program must reclaim or enhance AML sites posing a threat to the environment and/or public health and safety as specified in SMCRA.

Sites must be determined eligible by the BAMR, entered into both Pennsylvania’s and OSMRE’s AML inventory systems, and, in most cases, be associated with a coal mine that was abandoned prior to August 3, 1977.

The application document and attachments must be completed and uploaded into the Commonwealth’s eGrants system by the application deadline for each round.

For assistance with the eGrants System please contact the Department of Community and Economic Development’s Customer Service Center by email at ra-dcedcs@pa.gov or by phone at 1.800.379.7448.

For more information, read the entire PA Bulletin notice.

For all the details, visit DEP’s AML/AMD Grant Program webpage.

(Photos: Little Conemaugh, Cambria County.)

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[Posted: June 30, 2023]

7/3/2023