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Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP)

ID: BIA-2022-DEMD-EMDP • Type: Posted
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Description

Soliciting grant proposals from Tribes and Tribal Energy Development Organizations for technical assistance funding to hire consultants to identify, evaluate or assess the market for energy or mineral resources that a Tribe will process, use, or develop.

Background
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Energy and Mineral Development, is soliciting grant proposals from Tribes and Tribal Energy Development Organizations for technical assistance funding to hire consultants to identify, evaluate or assess the market for energy or mineral resources that a Tribe will process, use, or develop. The grants will be funded under a non-recurring appropriation of the BIA budget, and Congress appropriates funds on a year-to-year basis.

Grant Details
The grant will fund projects that conduct resource inventories and assessments, feasibility studies, or other pre-development studies necessary to process, use and develop energy and mineral resources. The resources include biomass for heat or electricity, transportation fuels, hydroelectric, solar, wind generation, geothermal heating or electricity production, district heating, oil, natural gas, helium, sand and gravel, coal, precious minerals, and base minerals. Projects may include initial resource exploration; defining potential targets for development; performing a market analysis; performing economic evaluation; baseline studies related to energy and mineral projects; and other pre-development studies necessary to promote the use and development of energy and mineral resources.

Eligibility Requirements
Only Indian Tribes and Tribal Energy Development Organizations (TEDOs) are eligible for EMDP grants. The projects must occur on Indian land. TEDOs are defined as any enterprise wholly owned by an Indian Tribe engaged in energy resource development or any organization of two or more entities with written consent from governing bodies of all participating Indian Tribes.

Period of Performance
The program can fund projects only one year at a time. The funding periods and amounts referenced in this solicitation are subject to the availability of funds at the time of award.

Grant Value
Award Ceiling: $2,500,000; Award Floor: $10,000; Number of Awards: 100 to 130 grants ranging from approximately $10,000 to $2,500,000.

Place of Performance
Projects funded by EMDP grants must occur on Indian land.

Overview

Category of Funding
Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
False
Source
On 1/31/22 the Bureau of Indian Affairs posted grant opportunity BIA-2022-DEMD-EMDP for Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP). The grant will be issued under grant program 15.038 Minerals and Mining on Indian Lands.

Timing

Posted Date
Jan. 31, 2022, 12:00 a.m. EST
Closing Date
May 13, 2022, 12:00 a.m. EDT Past Due
Closing Date Explanation
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
Last Updated
April 27, 2022, 3:55 p.m. EDT
Version
4

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Additional Info
Only Indian Tribes, as defined at 25 U.S.C. 5304(e), and Tribal Energy Development Organizations (TEDOs), as defined at 25 U.S.C 3501(12), are eligible for EMDP grants. Under the statutory definition, Indian Tribes means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq., which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.           TEDOs are:  (1) any enterprise, partnership, consortium, corporation, or other type of business organization that is engaged in the development of energy resources and is wholly owned by an Indian Tribe (including an organization incorporated under 25 U.S.C. 5124 or 5203); and (2) any organization of two or more entities, at least one of which is an Indian Tribe, that has the written consent of the governing bodies of all Indian Tribes participating in the organization to apply for a grant, loan, or other assistance under 25 U.S.C. 3502 or to enter into a lease or business agreement with, or acquire a right-of-way from, an Indian Tribe pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3504(a)(2)(A)(ii) or (b)(2)(B).            Eligible applicants will be referred to as “Tribes” and “TEDOs” throughout this notice.EMDP grants may only fund projects occurring on Indian land. The term “Indian land” means: Any land located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria; Any land not located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria, the title to which is held:  (i) in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or an individual Indian; (ii) by an Indian Tribe or an individual Indian, subject to restriction against alienation under laws of the United States; or (iii) by a dependent Indian community; and Land that is owned by an Indian Tribe and was conveyed by the United States to a Native Corporation pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), or that was conveyed by the United States to a Native Corporation in exchange for such land. See 25 U.S.C. 3501(2).

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$2,500,000
Floor
$10,000
Estimated Program Funding
Not Provided
Estimated Number of Grants
Not Listed

Contacts

Contact
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Contact Email
Contact Phone
(703) 390-6410

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