Mississippi $6.8M first-phase formula grant
- Record
p09-MS-rec-02-r2- State
- MS
- Category
- funding · funding_envelope
- Status
- observed
- Period
- current
- Quality
- Press of release
- Review state
- Pending review
- Native ID
MS-DOI-FORMULA-PHASE1-2024
Fields
- award amount
- $6.8 million
- grant phase
- The grants are the first phase of formula grant funding for Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri to clean up legacy pollution.
- undocumented well work
- continue identifying, characterizing, prioritizing previously undocumented wells
- well sites
- plugging, remediation and restoration work on approximately 400 orphaned well sites
Evidence
- award amount:
$6.8 million
https://www.rigzone.com/news/doi_earmarks_37mm_to_plug_orphan_wells_in_3_states-26-apr-2024-176556-article/ · article body paragraph 4 · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-06· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-06 - well sites:
plugging, remediation and restoration work on approximately 400 orphaned well sites
https://www.rigzone.com/news/doi_earmarks_37mm_to_plug_orphan_wells_in_3_states-26-apr-2024-176556-article/ · article body paragraph 4 · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-06· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-06 - grant phase:
The grants are the first phase of formula grant funding for Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri to clean up legacy pollution.
https://www.rigzone.com/news/doi_earmarks_37mm_to_plug_orphan_wells_in_3_states-26-apr-2024-176556-article/ · page meta description (phase + full state names quoted; $36.9M award sentence in articleBody JSON-LD; April 26, 2024 article) · sourcep09-MS-r3-src-06· visitp09-MS-r3-visit-06
Provenance
Collected 2026-10-04 by agent p09-MS.