Assistance program
Experienced Services
$1.2 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 15.019
- What it does
- The ESP program provide funding that allows agencies to enter into agreements with non-profit organizations to provide opportunities to qualified individuals 55 years of age and older who have specific technical skills and abilities not available or underrepresented at current staffing levels. Qualified individuals who are a part of the ESP will support the BSEE on projects related to Renewable Energy, Decommissioning, Well Intervention, and others. These projects will enable the BSEE to carry out its mission to promote safety, protect the environment, and conserve resources offshore through vigorous regulatory oversight and enforcement. The ESP participants will not replace or displace current BSEE employees.
- Who benefits
- Individuals 55 years of age and older.
- Who applies
- Non-profit organizations and States authorized to participate in the ESP. This program is limited to qualified non-profit organizations subject to 26 USC 501 c(3) of the tax code, and must be designated by the Secretary of Labor under Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965. Proof of establishment must be submitted with the application.
- Authorized by
- Older Workers Act of 1965
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments