---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 886.20"
title: "30"
number: "886.20"
heading: "What happens to unused funds from my grant?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/886.20"
---

# §886.20. What happens to unused funds from my grant?

- (a) If there are any unexpended funds after your grant is completed, we deobligate the funds when we close your grant. We treat unused funds as follows:
  - (1) We transfer any State share funds under [§ 872.14](/cfr/30/872.14.md) of this chapter or Tribal share funds under [§ 872.17](/cfr/30/872.17.md) that were not expended within three years of the date they were awarded in a grant, except five years for funds awarded in Fiscal Years 2008, 2009, and 2010, to historic coal funds, [§ 872.21](/cfr/30/872.21.md) of this chapter. We distribute any funds transferred to historic coal in the next annual distribution in the same way as historic coal funds from fee collections during that fiscal year.
  - (2) We hold any unused Federal expense funds under [§ 872.24](/cfr/30/872.24.md) of this chapter for distribution to any State or Indian tribe as needed for the activity for which the funds were appropriated.
  - (3) We make unused funds of all other types available for re-award to the same State or Indian tribe to which they were originally distributed. This includes historic coal funds under [§ 872.21](/cfr/30/872.21.md) of this chapter and minimum program make up funds under [§ 872.26](/cfr/30/872.26.md) of this chapter.
- (b) If you have any State share funds or Tribal share funds that were distributed to you in an annual distribution under [§ 872.15](/cfr/30/872.15.md) or [§ 872.18](/cfr/30/872.18.md) of this chapter but that were not awarded to you in grant within 3 years of the date they were distributed, or 5 years for funds distributed in Fiscal Years 2008, 2009, and 2010, we transfer the unawarded funds to the historic coal fund under [§ 872.21](/cfr/30/872.21.md) of this chapter and distribute them in the next annual distribution.

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 67644, Nov. 14, 2008, as amended at 90 FR 52865, Nov. 24, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 67644, Nov. 14, 2008, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 67644, Nov. 14, 2008, as amended at 90 FR 52865, Nov. 24, 2025]