FY26 Bureau of Land Management Abandoned Mine Lands and Hazardous Materials - Bureau wide
Funds inventory work and physical repairs at hazardous abandoned mine sites on land BLM manages.
More than 160,000 abandoned mine features sit on land the Bureau of Land Management manages, many of them still posing a real risk to people, wildlife and water. This money funds fixing that, not researching it.
The work is physical: inventorying hazardous sites, then closing them off or making them safe — fencing, signage, backfilling shafts, installing bat-friendly gates over openings bats stil…
Inventorying and mitigating physical safety and environmental hazards at abandoned hardrock mine sites on Bureau of Land Management land — closure work such as fencing, signing, backfilling and bat-friendly gates, plus watershed restoration and remedial response to contamination. This is land-management and remediation work, not a research project.
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