Mississippi IIJA orphaned-well funding envelope
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MS-IIJA-ORPHAN-2022
Fields
- iija eligibility
- Mississippi could be eligible for a federal grant up to $25 million to address orphan well site plugging, remediation and reclamation at no cost to the landowner
- initial grant program
- The Department of the Interior today announced it has awarded an initial $560M from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells.
- matching grant
- D25AP00155 performance matching grant under 42 USC 15907
- median well cost
- the median cost of plugging, mitigating, and claiming a well is $76,000. That cost will be paid by the federal government via grants to states.
Evidence
- small scale initial cap:
Small Scale Initial Grant, up to 5 million
https://www.highergov.com/grant/D22AP00229/ · Overview paragraph 1 · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-07· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-07 - iija eligibility:
Mississippi could be eligible for a federal grant up to $25 million to address orphan well site plugging, remediation and reclamation at no cost to the landowner
https://www.lawrencecountypress.com/2022/04/21/mississippi-seeks-landowner-assistance-for-reporting-orphaned-oil-and-gas-wells/ · article body, Jess New quote · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-05· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-05 - median well cost:
the median cost of plugging, mitigating, and claiming a well is $76,000. That cost will be paid by the federal government via grants to states.
https://www.lawrencecountypress.com/2022/04/21/mississippi-seeks-landowner-assistance-for-reporting-orphaned-oil-and-gas-wells/ · article body paragraph 6 · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-05· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-05 - initial grant program:
The Department of the Interior today announced it has awarded an initial $560M from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells.
https://www.oilandgasonline.com/doc/through-president-biden-s-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-states-begin-plugging-orphaned-wells-0001 · article lede (initial $560M/24-state award quoted verbatim incl. HTML entity; over-10,000-sites sentence and August 25, 2022 dateline in same article) · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-10· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-10 - matching grant authority:
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Orphaned Well State Performance Matching Grant Program codified under 42 U.S.C. 15907.
https://www.highergov.com/grant/D25AP00155/ · Overview Grant Description (authority quoted; MSOGB activity sentence in same description) · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-08· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-08
Provenance
Collected 2026-10-04 by agent p09-MS.