Subsidy for Pollution-Prevention Works at Closed / Abandoned Mines (FY2025 Supplementary) — Kyushu Mine Safety Supervision Department

①Overview: This subsidy provides partial funding from METI (via the Industrial Safety Supervision Department Director) within budgetary limits for pollution-prevention and hazard-prevention works at closed/abandoned non-coal/lignite mines carried out by local governments, and for wastewater treatment performed by mine-wastewater-treatment operators. The Kyushu Department covers Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures. ②Eligible applicants: Two tracks — (1) local governments (prefectures/municipalities) implementing pollution-/hazard-prevention works at subsidy-target mines whose pollution-prevention obligor is insolvent or non-existent; (2) mine-wastewater-treatment operators (including designated pollution-prevention bodies and entities such as JOGMEC) at mines whose mining rights have lapsed or whose mining activities ended long ago without prospect of resumption. Entities matching the anti-organised-crime declaration are excluded. ③Subsidised expenses & content: (A) Pollution-prevention works (removal/transport of waste rock and tailings, dam/retaining-wall construction and repair, drainage channels, tunnel sealing, wastewater collection/conveyance/treatment facilities, hazardous-substance leak prevention, open-pit backfilling, etc.), (B) Mine wastewater treatment, (C) Post-completion facility maintenance works, (D) Hazard-prevention works (pit-mouth sealing, residual-wall shaping, collapse-prevention facilities). Cost categories and estimation standards follow Annex 1 and the MLIT River Bureau notice annexes 1–3. ④Rate / ceiling / schedule / key points: Subsidy rate is up to three-quarters (0.75) of eligible expenses; the floor for the decided amount is JPY 1,000,000 in principle (except where the project is judged especially necessary). The maximum is decided within the available budget (no fixed ceiling in the requirements; FY2025 supplementary budget is approx. JPY 1.12 billion). Application uses Form 1 (local governments) or Form 24 (wastewater operators) with a construction plan and cost statement, submitted by the Annex-2 deadline (31 July for pollution-prevention and wastewater works, 31 August for hazard-prevention works) to the competent Industrial Safety Supervision Director (in Kyushu: the Kyushu Industrial Safety Supervision Director). Electronic submission via the subsidy application system is accepted. Standard processing period until grant decision is 30 days. The completion report is due within 30 days after completion or by 10 April of the next fiscal year, whichever is earlier.