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BIA-EMDP-2024-01: Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP)

Closed Closed May 24, 2024 Opportunity BIA-EMDP-2024-01 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$1.5 million
• Award floor$10,000
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to tribes.

• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

More grants for tribes.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Tribal Energy Development Capacity Grants awards averaged $224,435; this notice allows up to $1.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (90% over five years) went to tribes.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

DEMD administers the EMDP grant. This solicitation seeks proposals for projects that conduct resource inventories and assessments, feasibility studies, or other pre-development studies necessary to process, use and develop energy and mineral resources. These resources and their uses include, but are not limited to, biomass (woody and waste) for heat or electricity; transportation fuels; hydroelectric, solar, or wind generation; geothermal heating or electricity production; district heating; other forms of distributed energy generation; oil, natural gas, and helium; sand and gravel, coal, precious minerals, and base minerals (lead, copper, zinc, etc.).EMDP projects may include, but are not limited to:Initial resource exploration;Defining potential targets for development;Performing a market analysis to establish production/demand for a commodity;Performing economic evaluation and analysis of the resource;Baseline studies related to energy and mineral projects; andOther pre-development studies or work necessary to promote the use and development of energy and mineral resources.

Category: Environment.

Applying now

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