Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants | FOA BS 2024 1

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The Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants are a U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) funding opportunity designed to improve safety and health outcomes in the mining industry through education and training. For FY 2024, MSHA is making grant funds available to support programs that help miners, mine operators, and the broader mining community better identify hazards, avoid dangerous situations, and prevent unsafe or unhealthy working conditions in and around mines. The central idea is practical, preventive training: building skills, awareness, and systems that reduce injuries, illnesses, and fatalities by addressing the risks miners face day to day.

MSHA is especially interested in proposals that focus on several high-priority hazard areas. These include health risks from respirable dust and crystalline silica exposure, which are closely tied to serious respiratory disease; powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, a leading contributor to severe incidents in mining; mine emergency preparedness and mine rescue capabilities; electrical safety; and safety needs involving contract workers and customer truck drivers who may work around mines but not receive the same level of site-specific training. The grants also target gaps in training for new and inexperienced miners, including managers and supervisors when they perform mining tasks, as well as underground pillar safety concerns and the lack or misuse of personal protective equipment, including fall hazards from working at heights. MSHA also leaves room for other training concepts that clearly advance miner safety and health, as long as the program aligns with the overall prevention mission.

A notable emphasis of this grant program is strengthening understanding of miners statutory rights. MSHA wants training that reinforces miners rights to a safe and healthy workplace, including protections relevant to Part 90 miners, the right to refuse unsafe work, and the right to speak up about safety and health conditions without retaliation. In addition, MSHA intends to place special weight on programs and training materials that reach smaller mines and underserved mines and miners, and that reflect diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility goals. In practical terms, competitive projects are likely to show how they will reach audiences that are often harder to serve, adapt materials for different languages or literacy levels where needed, and remove barriers that prevent miners at small operations from accessing high-quality training.

Eligible applicants include a broad mix of public and nonprofit organizations. Government applicants may include states, territories, and tribal governments, with territories explicitly including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as federally recognized tribes. Nonprofit eligibility includes both public and private nonprofit entities, including tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, and Indian-controlled organizations serving Native Americans and Native Hawaiians. The eligibility list also covers local governments and public or state-controlled institutions of higher education, as well as nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), which opens the door to universities, training centers, and mission-driven safety organizations to apply.

Funding is provided as a grant under CFDA 17.603, with MSHA expecting to make up to about 20 awards under this announcement. Individual award sizes must be at least $50,000 and can be as high as $1,000,000, with the notice describing up to $1,000,000 available in grant funds. The opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number FOA BS 2024 1, and the original application closing date is September 9, 2024. Overall, the program is positioned as part of the Department of Labors broader Good Jobs approach, linking job quality to safer working conditions and stronger worker protections.

Finally, the program is shaped by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 (the MINER Act). That law directs the Secretary of Labor to prioritize mine safety demonstrations and pilot projects that have broad applicability, meaning MSHA is looking for training approaches, tools, and materials that can be replicated or scaled beyond one mine site. It also requires particular emphasis on supporting miners at smaller mines and ensuring that operators and miners are trained on new MSHA standards, high-risk activities, and other key safety and health priorities. In short, the Brookwood-Sago grants are meant to fund practical, transferable training and education efforts that measurably strengthen mine safety culture, improve hazard recognition and control, and expand access to high-quality training for the miners and communities that need it most.

• The Mine Safety and Health Administration in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.603.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-07-10.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-09-09. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: 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), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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