Alaska Office of Infrastructure, Weekly Email

July 24, 2024

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Alaska Population Projections 2023 to 2050

NTIA to Host Webinar on Digital Equity Program July 25,2024 at 10:00 AM

Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) Discretionary Grant Deadline Calendar (Updated 7/17/2024) Includes NEW rolling grants below calendar!

Upcoming Events:

If you have an infrastructure or workforce development event or website you would like us to share, please email us!

Wed, July 31, 2024, 4:00-7:00 PM: AGC Summer Safety Fair, Davis Constructors & Engineers, Inc., 6591 A St., Ste. 300, Anchorage, Alaska.

Wed, August 7, 2024, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM: 2024 Anchorage Economic Development Luncheon, Dena’ina Convention Center, Anchorage, Alaska.

Tue-Thu, August 13-15, 2024: Global Autonomous Systems Conference, Dena’ina Center, Anchorage, AK

Thur, August 15, 2024 11:00 AM: DOT Navigator Webinar Series, register here

Tue-Thu, August 13-15, 2024: Alaska Municipal League Summer Legislative Conference, Kodiak, Alaska

Sun, August 18, 2024, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Annual Renewable Energy Fair, Chena Hot Springs, Fairbanks, Alaska

Mon-Wed, August 26-28, 2024: 2024 Alaska Defense Forum, Westmark Hotel & Convention Center, Fairbanks, Alaska

Wed-Thu, August 28-29, 2024: AOGA 2024 Conference, Dena’ina Center, Anchorage, Alaska

Wednesday's, August 28-October 30, 2024, 5:00-8:00 PM: WRTG A280, Introduction to Grant Writing: 2 Credits, 10-wks, open for enrollment at UAA for Fall '24. Course description: introduces grant writing, with a focus on locating funding sources, networking with community partners and potential funders, and drafting, revising, and submitting grant proposals. Registration Restrictions: completion of prerequisite or instructor approval. Modality: online, synchronous (Zoom). Cost: $570.00. Contact Andrew Harnish at UAA with any questions ajharnish@alaska.edu or click here for registration guidelines.

Tue-Fri, September 10-13, 2024, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Alaska Power Association and AIE Annual Meetings, Wedgewood Resort, 212 Wedgewood Dr, Fairbanks, Alaska

Wed-Thu, September 11-12, 2024, Seagriculture USA 2024, Ketchikan, Alaska

Tue-Thu, September 24-26, 2024: 2024 Southeast Alaska Economic Summit & 66th Annual Meeting, Ted Ferry Civic Center, 888 Venetia Avenue, Ketchikan, Alaska

Wed-Fri, October 2-4, 2024: 2024 Rural Energy Conference, Westmark Hotel, Fairbanks, Alaska

Thur-Sat, October 17-19, 2024: Annual Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention, Dena'ina Center, Anchorage, AK

Fri, October 25, 2024, 5:00-9:00 PM: Alaska Safety Alliance Annual Meeting and 25th Anniversary Celebration, O’Malley’s on the Green, 3651 O’Malley Road, Anchorage, Alaska

Wed-Thu, November 13-14, 2024: Resource Development Council for Alaska (RDC)’s 45 ^th Annual Alaska Resources Conference, Dena’ina Center, Anchorage, Alaska.

Mon-Fri, December 9-13, 2024: 74 ^th Annual Alaska Municipal League Local Government Conference, Dena’ina Center, Anchorage, AK

Grant Opportunities:

If you are applying or know of an entity applying for an infrastructure grant, please let us know!

BROADBAND

Dept. of Agriculture - Broadband Technical Assistance, Deadline August 20, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Public Housing Authorities; Non-profits; or Businesses. to support broadband technical assistance activities that promote the expansion of broadband into rural areas. Examples of broadband technical assistance projects may include conducting feasibility studies, completing network designs, and developing broadband financial assistance applications.

CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT & RESILIENCE

Dept. of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management Alaska Threatened and Endangered Species Program, Deadline August 19, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Housing Authorities; or Non-profits. The Alaska program is looking for projects that will result in or facilitate national implementation or outreach of tangible on the ground actions that will improve species populations (numbers, representation, or resilience) or reduce population level threats.
NEW Dept. of Defense - Tanana Flats Training Area All Season Road and Gravel Production, Deadline August 20, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Non-govt. organizations/individuals. Provide healthy and resilient environments that are sustainable, high-quality settings for military training, to protect and enhance biological diversity and ecological health.
USDA - Tribal Access to Emerging Private Markets for Climate Mitigation & Forest Resilience, Deadline August 21, 2024. Eligible entities: Tribes. Funding will support the participation of underserved and small-acreage forest landowners in emerging private markets for climate mitigation or forest resilience.
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development - Youth Homeless Demonstration Program, Deadline August 29, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribal Housing; or Non-profits. The purpose of the YHDP is to implement projects that demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless youth age 24 and under can dramatically reduce youth homelessness. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth. In order to effectively implement a system that addresses the needs of youth experiencing homelessness, Continuums of Care (CoCs) must understand the subgroups of unaccompanied youth and incorporate those understandings into the YHDP CCP and awarded projects.
Dept. of the Interior - WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I for Fiscal Year 2023, Deadline September 3, 2024. Eligible entities: Local Govts; Special Districts; Tribes; or Non-profits. Phase I activities to develop a watershed group, complete watershed restoration planning activities, and design watershed management projects.
Dept. of the Interior - IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Alaska Good Neighbor Authority, Deadline October 18,2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; or Tribes. Intended to facilitate partnerships with states, counties, and federally recognized Indian tribes to plan and implement forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration projects. The GNA authority specifically authorizes treating insect-and disease infested trees; reducing hazardous fuels; any other activities to restore or improve forest, rangeland, and watershed health, including fish and wildlife habitat.
Dept. of Interior - WaterSMART Grants: Water and Energy Efficiency Grants for Fiscal Year 2024, Deadline November 13, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Non-profits. provides funding for projects that result in quantifiable water savings, implement renewable energy components, and support broader sustainability benefits.
EPA – Community Change Program, Deadline November 21, 2024. Eligible entities: Partnership between two community-based non-profit organizations (CBO); or partnership between CBO and one of the following: local government, tribe or institution of higher education. $2 billion dollars (total) available in Inflation Reduction Act funds for environmental and climate activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate challenges.
Dept. of Energy - Net Zero Federal Facilities , Deadline November 27, 2024. Eligible entities: Federal Agencies. Objectives: Assistance with Net-Zero Buildings Opportunity Development; Modify Existing Projects for Net-Zero Buildings; New/In Development Net-Zero Buildings Projects.
Dept. Of Interior - National Fish Passage Program: Restoring River, Floodplain, and Coastal Connectivity and Resiliency, FY 24 and FY25, Deadline December 31, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Tribes; Local govts; Non-profits; School Districts; Public Housing Authorities; or Universities. This voluntary program provides direct technical and financial assistance to partners to remove instream barriers, restore aquatic organism passage, and restore climate resilient aquatic connectivity in rivers, floodplains, and coastal habitats for the benefit of Federal trust resources.
FEMA – Fiscal Year 2023 Swift Current Flood Mitigation Program, FY 2023 Deadline January 15, 2025, FY 2024 Deadline January 15, 2026. Eligible entities: States; or Tribes. Reduce or eliminate the flood risk to NFIP-participating communities and repetitive flood damage to structures and buildings insured by the NFIP following a flood-related disaster event, and to enhance community flood resilience within NFIP-participating communities.
Dept. of Interior – Creating Opportunities for Relevant Experience (CORE) Wildland Fire Training Crews, Deadline May 24, 2029. Eligible entities: States; or Tribes. The Creating Opportunities for Relevant Experience Crews (CORE Crews) are wildland fire training crews comprised of women, veterans, or youth. CORE crews offer participants job experience and wildland fire specific training that serves as a developmental opportunity for participants and an opportunity for parks to build relationships with the next generation of fire managers.

ECONOMIC & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Dept. of Education - Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE): Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success, Deadline July 29, 2024. Eligible Entities: Public/Private Universities. The purpose of this program is to encourage institutions of higher education (IHEs) to develop model programs to support veteran student success in postsecondary education by coordinating services to address the academic, financial, physical, and social needs of veteran students.
EPA – FY25 Brownfields Job Training (JT) Grants, Deadline August 15, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Non-profits. The objective of the Brownfields Job Training Program is to recruit, train, and place unemployed and under-employed residents of solid and hazardous waste-impacted communities with the skills needed to obtain full-time, sustainable employment. This program promotes the facilitation of activities related to assessment, cleanup, or preparation of contaminated sites, including brownfields, for reuse, while simultaneously building a local workforce with the skills needed to perform remediation work that is supportive of environmental protection and environmental health and safety.
Dept. of Labor - Mine Safety and State Grants, Deadline August 20, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Universities. to assist them in developing and enforcing state mining laws and regulations, improve state workers’ compensation and mining occupational disease laws and programs, and improve safety and health conditions in the nation’s mines through Federal-State coordination and cooperation.
NEW Dept. of Labor - YouthBuild, Deadline September 16, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; School Districts; Non-profits; or Housing Authorities. Providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to opportunity youth, ages 16 to 24, who are performing meaningful work and service to their communities. The YouthBuild program model prepares participants for quality jobs in a variety of careers, in diverse industry sectors, particularly in infrastructure sectors, and includes wrap-around services such as mentoring, trauma-informed care, personal counseling, transportation supports, and employment preparation

ENERGY

Dept. of Energy - Power At Sea Prize, Deadlines Concept Paper July 26, 2024, Submission May 2025. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; U.S. Citizen or Private Entity; or Universities. Seeks new, innovative, and feasible marine energy concepts that can fulfill Powering the Blue Economy initiatives—including supporting offshore industries, science, and security activities, and meeting the energy and water needs of coastal and rural island communities.
Dept. of Energy - Water Power Systems and Solutions, Deadlines Concept Paper August 7, 2024, Application September 18, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Non-profits; or Businesses. To support programs that accelerate the commercialization and adoption of waterpower systems and solutions in hydropower and/or marine energy.
Dept. of Energy - Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Methane Emissions Reduction Program Oil and Gas Methane Monitoring and Mitigation, Deadline August 26, 2024. Eligible entities: Unrestricted. minimize emissions of methane during production, processing, and transportation across the oil and natural gas industry, with the goal of eliminating methane emissions from carbon-based fuel supply chains by 2030.
Dept. of Energy - Clean Fuels & Products Shot: Supporting Carbon Utilization Products via Electrochemical Conversion and Refinery and Petrochemical Facilities Retrofitting, Deadline August 27, 2024. Eligible entities: Unrestricted. Developing the sustainable feedstocks and conversion technologies necessary to produce crucial fuels, materials, and carbon-based products that are better for the environment than current petroleum-derived components.
NEW Dept. of Energy - Long-Duration Energy Storage Vouchers, Deadline August 28, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes, Community Development Organizations; or Utilities. One voucher opportunity will aid technology developers of Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES), and the other will aid communities or other entities interested in deploying storage for the first time.
Dept. of Energy - Geothermal Resources’ Value in Implementing Decarbonization (GRID), Deadlines, Letter of intent due July 24, 2024, Grant submission due September 9,2024. Eligible entities: Unrestricted. GTO’s mission is to increase geothermal energy deployment through research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of innovative technologies that enhance exploration and production.
NEW Dept. of Energy - Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses, Deadline September 9, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Non-profits. This FOA will aid communities with resource and energy recovery strategies associated with their organic waste streams. Organic waste streams represent major sources of fugitive methane emissions, volatile organic compounds, and other pollutants.
Dept. of Energy - Water Power Innovation Network, Deadline September 18, 2024. Eligible entities: Unrestricted. WPTO enables research, development, and testing of emerging technologies to advance marine energy as well as next-generation hydropower and pumped storage systems for a flexible, reliable grid.
Notice of Intent – Dept. of Energy – Aerodynamics for Extreme-Scale Offshore Wind Performance and Survival, Deadline September 27, 2024. The intended FOA would seek applications to fill a critical void in the development of multi-megawatt wind turbines for offshore deployment.
Dept. of Agriculture - Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), Deadline Sept 30, 2024. Eligible entities: Small businesses. The program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements.
NEW Dept. of Energy - Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) Program, Deadline September 30, 2024. Eligible entities (with DOE approval): States; Local Govts; Tribes; or For-profit entities. The objective of the CIFIA program is to fund the design, development, construction, and installation of infrastructure for large-volume CO2 transport by a variety of modes, such as through pipelines, rail, trucks, and ships and barges.
NEW Dept. of Energy - Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid, Deadline October 10, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Non-profits; or For-profit entities. This FOA has two major topical areas: Connected Communities 2.0, focused on grid edge technical measures in buildings, industry, and transportation to prepare the electric grid for these new loads, and improve the resilience of customers and the grid; and Smart Charge Management (SCM), focused on various unique urban, suburban, and rural use cases to build confidence in SCM as an effective approach for electric vehicles (EVs) to provide flexibility and value to the electric grid.

TRANSPORTATION

Dept. of Transportation - FY2024 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning, Deadline July 22, 2024. Eligible entities: States or Local Govts. Examine ways to improve economic development and ridership, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations.
FHWA - Bridge Investment Program, Deadlines August 1, 2024 (for FY 2025); and August 1, 2025 (for FY 2026). Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; or Tribes. For Large Bridge Project grants (a project with total eligible costs greater than $100 million) for awards under the Bridge Investment Program (BIP).
Dept. of Transportation - Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program ROUND 2, Deadline August 28, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Housing Authorities. For charging and fueling infrastructure.
Dept. of Transportation Safe Streets & Roads for All, Deadline August 29, 2024. Eligible entities: Political Subdivision of States; MPOs; Local Govts; Tribes, Schools; Universities; or a group of up to three entities listed above. Program is for projects and strategies to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadway users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation, personal conveyance, and micro-mobility users, motorists, and commercial vehicle operators.
Dept. of Transportation - Enhancing Mobility Innovation, Deadline August 30, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Non-profits; or Businesses. Funds will be awarded for projects that advance emerging technologies, strategies, and innovations in traveler-centered mobility.
Dept. of Transportation - FY 2024-2026 Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program, Deadline September 4, 2024. Eligible entities: State DOT; Local Govts; or Tribes. Provide grants on a competitive basis for projects that seek to achieve a reduction in the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions; and improve habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic species.
Dept. of Transportation - National Culvert Removal, Replacement and Restoration Grant Program, Deadline September 23, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; or Tribes. to meaningfully improve or restore anadromous fish passage through the replacement, removal, or repair of culverts or weirs, which may include infrastructure to facilitate fish passage around or over the weir and weir improvements.
Dept. of Transportation - FY23-24 Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program, Deadline September 23, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or a Public Port Authority. Provide funding for highway-rail and pathway-rail grade crossing improvement projects that focus on improving the safety and mobility of people and goods.
Dept. of Transportation - Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program, Deadline September 30, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; or Non-profits. To support planning and capital construction activities that aim to restore community connectivity through the removal, retrofit, mitigation or replacement of highways, roadways, or other infrastructure facilities that create barriers to mobility, access or economic development. Click here for webinars .
Dept. of Transportation - FY21-24 Restoration and Enhancement Grant Program, Deadline September 30, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or for Profits other than Small Businesses. The purpose of the R&E Program is to provide grants for Initiating, Restoring, or Enhancing Intercity Rail Passenger Transportation operations.
Dept. of Transportation - Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 through FY 2026 Bridge Investment Program, Planning and Bridge Project Grants, Deadline October 1, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; or Tribes. The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for two funding categories: (1) Planning and (2) Bridge Project grants (a project with total eligible costs not greater than $100 million) for awards under the Bridge Investment Program (BIP).
EPA - 2024 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Tribal and Territory Grants, Deadline December 6, 2024. Eligible entities: Tribes. Program is to incentivize and accelerate the upgrading or retirement of the nation’s legacy diesel engine fleet. Eligible activities include the retrofit or replacement of existing diesel engines, vehicles, and equipment with the EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) certified engine configurations and verified retrofit and idle reduction technologies.
Dept. of Transportation - Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE), Deadlines January 13, 2025 (FY25); and January 13, 2026 (FY26). Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Transit Agencies. Eligible project types: highway or bridge projects eligible under title 23; public transportation projects under chapter 53 of title 49; passenger and freight rail transportation projects eligible under title 49; port investments; certain airport projects; culverts relating to storm runoff to improve habitat of aquatic species; and other deemed necessary by secretary. Click here for Webinars.

OTHER

Dept. of Ag - Rural Housing Preservation Grant, Deadline July 29, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; or Non-profits. Provides qualified public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, which may include but not be limited to, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, and other eligible entities grant funds to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas. In addition, the HPG program assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very low-income persons.
EPA - Promoting Readiness and Enhancing Proficiency to Advance Reporting and Data, Deadline July 29, 2024. Eligible entities: Public and Private Non-profits, including Universities and Hospitals. Assist current or prospective EPA grant recipients more effectively address their grant progress and performance requirements of their EPA-funded grant agreements. Reporting requirements involve gathering data, administering reports, and addressing evidence-building metrics.
National Endowment for the Arts - NEA Our Town, FY 2025, Deadline August 1, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; School Districts; or Non-profits. Through project-based funding, we support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities over the long term.
Small Business Administration - Cybersecurity for Small Business Pilot Program, Deadline August 2, 2024. Eligible entities: States. Authorizes the U.S. Small Business Administration to make grants to States, and the equivalent thereof, to carry out projects that help new small business concerns with tools to combat cybersecurity threats during their formative and most vulnerable years.
Dept. of Homeland Security - National Training Program Continuing Training Grants, Deadline August 16, 2024. Eligible entities: Local Govts; Tribes; or Universities. The CTG program supports building, sustaining, and delivering core capabilities through the development and delivery of training to achieve the National Preparedness Goal (the Goal), which is “a secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.
Dept. of Interior - FY2024 Historic Preservation Fund- History of Equal Rights- Preservation Grants, Deadline August 20, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Schools; or Non-profits. Funding for a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to structures.
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development - Eviction Protection Grant Program, Deadline August 20, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; or Non-profits. Provide no cost legal assistance to low-income tenants at risk or subject to eviction.
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development - Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Competitive Grant Program, Deadline August 29, 2024. Eligible entities: Tribes. Grant funds may be used to develop, maintain, and operate affordable housing in safe and healthy environments on Indian reservations and in other Indian areas and carry out other affordable housing activities. Grant funds must be used to primarily benefit low-income Indian families.
Dept. of Commerce FY2024 CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute Competition, Deadline September 9, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Universities; Non-profits; or Domestic For-profits. This NOFO seeks proposals to establish and operate a CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute focused on digital twins with integrated physical assets and computational capabilities (digital assets) to tackle important semiconductor-industry manufacturing challenges. The CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute will join an existing network of seventeen Institutes designed to increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and promote a robust R&D infrastructure.
Dept. of Energy - American-Made Solar Prize Round 8, Deadline September 26, 2024. Eligible entities: Anyone based in the United States with a potentially marketable solar technology solution are eligible to compete. The American-Made Solar Prize Round 8 is a multimillion-dollar prize program designed to spur innovations in U.S. solar hardware and software technologies and address challenges to rapid, equitable solar energy deployment.
NEW Dept. of Energy - Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation, Deadline November 18, 2024. Eligible entities: Unrestricted. This FOA applies smart manufacturing across four topic areas: Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy Smart Manufacturing of Tooling and Equipment for Sustainable Transportation Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive U.S. Mining.
NEW Dept. of Housing and Urban Development - Continuum of Care (CoC) Builds, Deadline November 21, 2024. Eligible entities: States; Local Govts; Tribes; Housing Authorities; or Non-profits. To address and reduce homelessness by adding new units of permanent supportive housing (PSH) through new construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation through one-time INSiDE awards under the CoC program.
Dept. of the Interior - 2025 National Geological & Geophysical Data Preservation Program, Deadline December 12, 2024. Eligible entities: States. Annual Program Announcement for assistance to support preservation, cataloging of and access to geological and geophysical data and materials for research and education use and address the Department of Interior’s Secretarial priorities.
U.S. Geological Survey - Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), Deadline December 31, 2024. Eligible entities: States. This year’s funding will finance new detailed geologic mapping of bedrock in areas that are known or suspected to contain critical mineral resources. The resulting maps and associated data are expected to improve our understanding of the distribution of mineralized systems and the rocks that host them.