AHMR State Grants Program

AHMR State Grants Program

Funding for Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) on state and private lands will be distributed through a grant program managed by the Environmental Compliance and Cleanup Division (ECCD). The Department of the Interior will provide grants to reclaim those lands based on eligibility requirements established in Sec. 40704 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the AHMR Program. Grants are available to States to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond to hazardous substance releases on, and remediate hardrock (non-coal) abandoned mines. AHMR Grants are subject to funding availability.  

For Fiscal Year 2025, the application period for AHMR State Grants has closed.  In August 2025, AHMR State Grants were awarded as follows:

StateAmountPurpose
Alabama$50,000.00 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
Arizona$250,000.00 Reclamation of 18 physical safety hazards at the Oro Flame Mine and to conduct inventory activities
California$149,967.00 Wellman Creek Mine Remediation & Habitat Restoration and to conduct inventory activities on CA Fish & Wildlife managed lands
Colorado$249,952.43 Reclaim 25 physical safety features at the Querida site in Custer County and 39 physical safety features at the Long Hungry project site in Teller County  
Illinois$250,000.00 Reclaim physical safety features at 3 abandoned hardrock mine sites
Maryland$50,000.00 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
Michigan$50,000.00 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
Nevada$250,000.00 Reclaim 27 hazardous abandoned mine sites within Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park as well as perform inventory activities
New Jersey$250,000.00 Address multiple physical safety hazards (subsidence features) along I-80 by performing drilling and grouting
New Mexico$250,000.00 Safeguard up to 22 mine openings in the Boston Hills Area near Silver City to include the installation of wire nets and bat gates
New York$50,000.00 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
North Carolina$49,980.50 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
Ohio$50,000.00 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
Pennsylvania$250,000.00 Reclamation of physical safety hazards at abandoned hardrock mine sites throughout the state and to assist with inventory activities
South Dakota $50,000.00 Data collection and site assessment for inventory purposes
Utah$250,000.00 Address approximately 55 physical safety hazards to include the installation of bat gates in Juab County near the Town of Eureka
Virginia$249,890.13 Mitigation of safety and environmental hazards at 2 abandoned mine sites
West Virginia$239,950.00 Reclamation of the Charles Eugene Withrow Alta Sand Quarry to include the removal of flooded ponds
Wyoming$250,000.00 Reclaim 15 physical safety features at the Leighton-Gentry & Paris Lode Mines as well as conduct inventory and site assessment activities 
Total:$3,239,740.06  

Future funding opportunities will be posted here as they arise. 

Useful links:

National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs (NAAMLP)

Link to the NAAMLP’s website where you can download the new Hardrock AML report. 

Interstate Mining Compact Commission (IMCC)

 

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AHRM State Program