Opportunity Information: Apply for L25AS00185
The NM FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Environmental Quality Protection opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L25AS00185) is a discretionary Bureau of Land Management (BLM) funding program that will award cooperative agreements to partners working to reduce environmental and public safety hazards on BLM-administered public lands in New Mexico. The focus is on addressing legacy impacts from historic extractive industries, especially abandoned hardrock mining, where degraded watersheds and airsheds and the release of hazardous substances have harmed natural resources and can still threaten wildlife, groundwater, surface water, soils, and the health and safety of people who recreate or work on public lands. Through this funding, BLM is looking to build and expand on-the-ground partnerships that both reduce current risks and help return impacted areas to productive uses such as recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and preservation of historical and cultural resources, while maintaining compliance with applicable soil, water, and air standards and all relevant federal, state, tribal, and local laws and regulations.
This program is explicitly tied to major federal investments under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The notice describes support for work aligned with IIJA and IRA provisions related to public lands conservation, resilience, and ecosystem restoration, and also references DOI mitigation authorities. In practical terms, that means projects should be framed around measurable risk reduction and ecological recovery on public lands, including restoring watersheds and improving environmental quality where past mining and associated contamination continue to drive environmental degradation or create hazards.
A central implementation pathway described in the notice is BLM's Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program. The AML program inventories abandoned mine features, prioritizes those posing the greatest threats to public safety, human health, and the environment, and then funds mitigation and restoration. The types of eligible actions described include physical hazard closures (for example fencing and signage, backfilling, and installation of bat-friendly gates or grates) as well as removal and remedial response actions to address contamination or releases of hazardous substances. The notice underscores the scale of the problem: BLM estimates more than 130,000 abandoned mine features on BLM-administered lands, many requiring mitigation to reduce environmental liabilities and prevent injury, exposure, or ongoing contamination.
The opportunity also highlights the role of the Natural Resource Damage and Restoration (NRD) program and, where applicable, work under BLM authority pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). For NRD-related efforts and CERCLA-based actions, the notice emphasizes that potentially responsible parties may need to be investigated, which signals that proposals intersecting with liability, responsible-party identification, or enforcement-related considerations must be designed in a way that fits BLM's legal and procedural requirements. More broadly, the program promotes a risk-reduction, watershed-based approach that leverages partnerships to stretch funding, accelerate implementation, and ensure that abandoned mine impacts are addressed in ways that reduce downstream and downwind effects on water, soil, sediment, and air.
Eligible applicants are limited to public and nonprofit entities and higher education, specifically including state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; and nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in those nonprofit categories). Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible to apply. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally implies substantial federal involvement during project implementation, so applicants should be prepared for active coordination with BLM staff on technical approaches, compliance needs, deliverables, and reporting.
Several limitations and administrative notes are called out. This notice does not support projects that hire interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993; organizations interested in youth or crew-based conservation hiring are directed instead to the separate BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands opportunity (NOFO 15.243). The notice also includes a specific rule for Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs): if a CESU partner receives a cooperative agreement under an existing Master CESU agreement that fits the CESU purpose (research, studies, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and education), indirect costs are capped at no more than 17.5 percent of the applicable indirect cost base recognized in the partner's federally approved NICRA. Applicants are instructed to state whether their proposal advances the CESU purpose and, if so, which CESU Network should serve as the host.
Key logistics provided in the source data include an application deadline of February 26, 2025, an award ceiling of $1,000,000, and a Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number of 15.236. Overall, the opportunity is aimed at organizations that can partner with BLM to identify and mitigate high-risk abandoned mine features, address hazardous substance releases, restore impacted watersheds, and improve environmental quality and public safety across BLM-managed lands in New Mexico, with projects designed to deliver practical risk reduction and durable restoration outcomes.Apply for L25AS00185
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NM FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Environmental Quality Protection" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.236.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-19.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-26. (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.
- 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, Private institutions of higher education.
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