Mine Drainage Technology Initiative (MDTI)

The Mine Drainage Technology Initiative (MDTI) (formally known as the Acid Mine Drainage Initiative) provides a forum for collaboration and information exchange with the goals of researching methods to remediate acid mine discharge into waterways. This is a discretionary Program, and its further funding and direction are subject to Congressional Appropriations and Administration Priorities. Selected projects should develop an understanding of acidic and toxic mine drainage (MD) so as to better predict, avoid, monitor, and remediate mine drainage; develop innovative solutions to acidic and toxic MD water-quality problems; identify, evaluate, and develop “best science” practices to predict acidic and toxic MD prior to mining; and identify successful remediation practices for existing sources of acidic and toxic MD and describe the best technology for its prevention.

Mine Drainage Technology Initiative Projects: Recipients may be any of the following: public, private, or non-profit entities; State, local or Tribal governments; and colleges and universities located in the United States.

• Applications must be submitted through Grants.gov in response to a NOFO. Applications received by the deadline will be reviewed to determine whether they are eligible, complete, and responsive and aligned with the respective program objectives and research grant areas as described in the Program Description • Applications determined to be ineligible, incomplete, and/or non-responsive based on the initial screening will be eliminated from further review. • Applications that are determined to be eligible, complete, and responsive will proceed for full merit reviews in accordance with the review and selection processes set forth below for each of the respective programs. • At least three objective reviewers, knowledgeable in the subject matter of this NOFO and its objectives, will evaluate each application based on the evaluation criteria • Each reviewer will assign individual scores to each criterion for each application. • The scores provided by each reviewer for each application will then be combined to form a composite score for each application, which serves as the basis for the relative ordering or ranking of applications. • OSMRE may select some, all, or none of the applications, or part(s) of any particular application. The MDTI cooperative agreement is funded at the Headquarter level and is approved by the Chief of Regulatory Support.