# MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY STATE GRANTS

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/msha-2026-1-mine-health-and-safety-state-grants/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/362729

> Mine Safety and Health Administration offered grants of up to $800,000 to colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes. It expected to make about 56 awards worth $10.5 million in total. Applications closed on August 10, 2026.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | MSHA-2026-1 |
| Agency | Mine Safety and Health Administration |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | August 10, 2026 |
| Award ceiling | $800,000 |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 56 |
| Total funding | $10.5 million |
| Cost sharing | required |
| Assistance Listings | 17.600 |

## Who can 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)

## What the grant funds

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 encourages State training programs to prioritize health and safety training for new and small mining operations. MSHA also encourages grant recipients to address, in their training and education programs, contract employee safety and occupational health hazards, powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, training for new and inexperienced miners, managers and supervisors performing mining tasks, and falls from heights. Applicants are encouraged, where applicable, to support the President’s goals of increasing the discovery and mining of critical minerals, by developing or creating training and compliance assistance programs to assist operators extracting critical minerals, including coal. The President has declared a National Energy Emergency to discover and mine critical minerals. Executive Order (EO) 14156, Declaring a National Energy Emergency (2025). To increase the response, on March 20, 2025, the President also directed the appropriate federal agencies to take immediate actions to increase mineral production. EO 14241, Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production (2025). In response, the mining industry may experience increases in the reopening of idled mines and developing new mines in the search for these critical minerals. With these increases, new and innovative programs to train new miners or retrain miners for extracting specific critical minerals are vital. The Department of Energy (DOE) published a list of critical materials for energy, Federal Register :: Notice of Final Determination on 2023 DOE Critical Materials List. On May 29, 2025, DOE added metallurgical coal used for steelmaking to the Critical Material list, 90 Federal Register 22711 (2025). The Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, in consultation with other federal agencies published the list of critical minerals, What are Critical Minerals? | U.S.

## Questions people ask

### Is MSHA-2026-1 still open?

No. It closed on August 10, 2026.

### Who can apply for MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY STATE GRANTS?

Mine Safety and Health Administration accepted applications from colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes.

### What is the deadline for MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY STATE GRANTS?

Closed August 10, 2026. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $800,000 each. About $10.5 million in total across about 56 awards.

### Who has won Mine Health and Safety Grants grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were University of Texas at Austin, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, WV Ofc of Miners Health Safety. The program made 240 awards worth $49.7 million in that time.