Closed · BIA-EMDP-2020 · CFDA 15.038 · Discretionary

Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP)

Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of Indian Affairs, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$10K-$2.5M
Award range
Closed
Status
December 2, 2020
Close date
30
Expected awards

The verdict

Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP) is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of Indian Affairs that offered $10,000 -- $2,500,000 across 30 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 145 other opportunities from Bureau of Indian Affairs.

$10K-$2.5M
award range
Closed
application status
30
expected awards
15.038
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP) is closed (last close December 2, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Bureau of Indian Affairs still indexes 145 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed December 2, 2020

Posted Sep 9 Closes Dec 2

Est. Total Funding

$2,500,000

Expected Awards

30

Instrument

Grant

Description

IN ORDER TO APPLY FOR THIS GRANT, YOU MUST GO TO THE RELATED DOCUMENTS TAB TO RETRIEVE THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT PACKAGE. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY AS IT CONTAINS INFORMATION HOW TO APPLY.The Office of the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs, through IEED, is soliciting proposals from Indian Tribes, as described in Section IV of this notice, for projects that conduct resource inventories and assessments, feasibility studies, or other pre-development studies necessary to process, use and develop energy and mineral resources. These resources and their uses include, but are not limited to, biomass (woody and waste) for heat or electricity; transportation fuels; hydroelectric, solar, or wind generation; geothermal heating or electricity production; district heating; other forms of distributed energy generation; oil, natural gas, geothermal, and helium; sand and gravel, coal, precious minerals, and base minerals (lead, copper, zinc, etc.).The Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (IEED), through its Division of Energy and Mineral Development (DEMD), 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.Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on December 02, 2020.

Public-sector applicant lane · Bureau of Indian Affairs

Grants.gov lists only government / tribal / housing-authority applicant doors for Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP) (Federally recognized tribal governments). This is a public-sector corridor, not a general nonprofit open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Energy (EN). This eligibility-code string dominates the Bureau of Indian Affairs book (87 peers, 60% of 146).

Code 07
Federally recognized tribal governments

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Agency Contact

Winter Jojola-Talburt email: winter.jojolatalburt@bia.gov telephone (720) 207-8063

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What to do next

Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP) is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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