§ 872.27 — How Does Osm Distribute And Award Minimum Program Make Up Funds?

(a) If you meet the eligibility requirements in § 872.26(b), we will distribute these minimum program make up funds to you as follows:

(1) We calculate your total distribution under this part by adding your applicable State or Tribal share funds distribution (§ 872.14 or § 872.17) and your historic coal funds distribution (§ 872.21). If the sum of these funds is less than $3 million, we calculate the amount of minimum program make up funds to add to your distribution under this section to increase it to that level.

(2) For each Federal fiscal year, we add minimum program make up funds to your combined distribution of State or Tribal share and historic coal funds as shown in the following table:

(b) We award these funds to you in grants according to the provisions of part 886 of this chapter.