Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants | FOA BS 2025 1

Opportunity Information: Apply for FOA BS 2025 1

The Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants are a U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) funding opportunity that supports education and training projects designed to help miners and the broader mining community recognize hazards and prevent unsafe or unhealthy working conditions in and around mines. The program is centered on practical, prevention-focused training and compliance assistance that improves day-to-day safety performance and helps reduce injuries, fatalities, and harmful exposures. The overall goal is to strengthen the mining workforce's ability to identify risks early, apply safe work practices consistently, and respond effectively to emergencies.

Funding is available for grants of up to $250,000, with MSHA expecting to make as many as five awards under this announcement. Applicants are allowed to submit more than one application, and MSHA will choose the proposals that best advance the program goals. Eligible applicants include state, local, territorial, and tribal governments (including entities across U.S. territories and federally recognized tribes), as well as public or private nonprofit organizations. Partnerships are permitted and encouraged when useful, but a single lead organization must be designated to manage the project and serve as the primary applicant.

MSHA highlights a range of priority training topics, with a strong emphasis on high-risk hazards and real-world operational needs. Safety initiatives of interest include powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, and training aimed at contractor personnel and customer truck drivers who interact with mine sites. MSHA also calls out gaps in training for new and inexperienced miners, including managers and supervisors when they perform mining tasks, along with underground pillar safety and the proper use of personal protective equipment (including fall prevention for work at heights). In addition to safety, the grants can support health-related training focused on respirable dust and other environmental hazards that threaten worker health over time.

A key theme in this funding opportunity is targeting training where it can have the biggest impact, especially at new or newly reopened mines and at smaller operations that may have fewer internal training resources. MSHA is particularly interested in programs that help miners and employers understand and implement new MSHA standards, address high-risk activities, and mitigate hazards identified by MSHA through enforcement trends or incident data. Proposals that are clearly designed for the realities of mine work, accessible to the intended audience, and capable of being delivered effectively to frontline workers are aligned with the program's intent.

MSHA also notes that it will give priority to applications that support the President's stated goals related to expanding domestic mineral production, including critical minerals. The opportunity references recent executive actions declaring a National Energy Emergency and directing federal agencies to increase mineral production, which may lead to reopening idled mines and developing new mines. Because that kind of growth can bring in large numbers of new workers or require retraining for specialized extraction and processing, MSHA is encouraging innovative training approaches that prepare new miners or retrain existing miners for the conditions associated with critical mineral operations. Applicants are also urged to consider training and compliance assistance that supports mine operators extracting critical minerals, using federal reference lists such as the Department of Energy critical materials list and the U.S. Geological Survey critical minerals list. The announcement further notes that coal has been declared a critical mineral under a subsequent executive order, reinforcing that coal-related training efforts may fit within this priority framework.

Administrative details include the funding opportunity number FOA BS 2025 1, listing the activity category as education and identifying CFDA 17.603. The application deadline provided is September 19, 2025. Overall, this grant is structured to fund targeted, job-relevant training that measurably improves miner safety and health, with special consideration for projects that address MSHA-identified risks and help the industry safely scale up in response to increased domestic mineral development.

• 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 2025-08-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-09-19. (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 $250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 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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