Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission obligations

An adjudicatory commission’s $7.0 million award book

FMSHRC administrative law judges hear disputes arising from Mine Safety and Health Administration enforcement. None of those case counts are in this packet. $6,969,830.79 is what the Commission obligated on federal awards through FY2026—hearing support, IT, facilities, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 368. A year with more contested citations does not automatically raise this total. A reporting or facilities contract can raise it in a quiet docket year.

Eighty-four awards against $7.0 million implies about $82,974 per award. That low mean on a modest count fits many small administrative instruments rather than a few giant technical vehicles. The packet has no median.

MSHA penalties are not these 84 rows

Civil penalties assessed by MSHA, and the underlying citations, live in Labor Department enforcement files. They are not FMSHRC awarding-agency obligations. Mixing penalty dollars with $6,969,830.79 would treat the review commission as if it were the enforcement agency. This page stays on CGAC 368.

Judge and staff salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $7.0 million understates the Commission’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

FY2026 cutoff

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $6,969,830.79 is cumulative through that horizon, not a single-year appropriation. Small purchase orders still add to the 84 count even when they barely move the dollar total.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 368. Review-commission work is labor-heavy; the award file is only the contracted slice.

CGAC 368 versus Labor Department mine safety

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission rows use awarding-agency code 368. MSHA sits under a Labor Department CGAC, not this one. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission work uses still another code. SpendingVault’s /agencies/368/ path stays on FMSHRC. Code 368 is an identifier, not a mine ID.

State tables versus mining geography

The state table for agency 368 attributes the 84 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography, not a map of coal or metal mines. A large state share can be a headquarters contractor, not a claim that that state’s mines generated more contests.

Open the FMSHRC agency page for the live $6,969,830.79 and 84-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 368. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of mine risk.

Contested citations versus 84 review-commission awards

MSHA citations and proposed penalties originate at the Labor Department. FMSHRC hears the contests. Those two ledgers are not the same. The 84 USAspending awards total $6,969,830.79 for awarding agency 368. Mixing penalty dollars with that stock would treat the review commission as if it were the inspectorate.

The low mean of about $82,974 on 84 awards fits many small administrative instruments. Hearing support, transcripts, and IT can all sit in the same average. The packet has no median. The state table for agency 368 is vendor geography, not a map of mines.

Judge and staff salaries generally never appear among the 84 rows, so the table understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff, not a mine-disaster date. Use the FMSHRC agency page for live tables. Keep this CGAC unmerged with MSHA or other review commissions. Outlays are unpublished. Small purchase orders still add to the 84 count even when they barely move the dollar total.

Contest rates and hearing calendars are Commission caseload products. They are not the 84 awards. A year with more MSHA citations contested can leave $6,969,830.79 unchanged if extra work is staff time. A transcript or IT vehicle can move it with no change in contests. Cite caseload tables for dockets and the agency 368 page for USAspending dollars. FY2026 is the cutoff. Mine-location maps remain enforcement files, not this state award table. The mean of about $82,974 is unsplit.

Temporary hearing rooms and court-reporting awards can populate the 84-row count in states that are not coalfield centers. The $6,969,830.79 is vendor geography through FY2026 for CGAC 368, not a map of mines. Open award-level records for recipient names. Use the FMSHRC agency page for live tables. MSHA penalty assessments remain a different ledger. Judge payroll remains mostly outside this file.

Questions

How much has FMSHRC obligated on USAspending?

The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission shows $6,969,830.79 in obligations through FY2026 across 84 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 368 is the filter. The total is not MSHA penalty assessments and not a count of contested citations. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 368 is the source for the current 84-award book.

What is the average FMSHRC award?

Dividing $6,969,830.79 by 84 awards yields about $82,974. The packet has no median. Many small administrative instruments pull the mean down relative to thin technical-support books. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 368?

368 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for FMSHRC. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/368/. MSHA and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $7 million include mine-safety grants?

Not as an MSHA or Labor Department awarding-agency total. Those programs sit under other CGACs. This page reports only FMSHRC’s $6,969,830.79 on 84 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.