[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 1994)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 

Financial Assistance to Manufacturing Sciences Corp.

AGENCY: US Department of Energy (DOE), Rocky Flats Office.

ACTION: Notice of noncompetitive financial assistance.

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SUMMARY: The US Department of Energy, Rocky Flats Office, gives notice 
of its plan to award a noncompetitive Cooperative Agreement to 
Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (MSC) pursuant to the DOE Financial 
Assistance Rules at 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i)(H). This Cooperative 
Agreement is for the initial stages of a National Conversion Pilot 
Project, approved by the Secretary on December 15, 1993, for the 
recycling of radioactively contaminated DOE scrap metals at Rocky 
Flats. Funding of approximately $1 million for Stage I will be provided 
by DOE Office of Facility Transition and Management (EM-60). The Stage 
II needs are estimated to be $21 million per year for up to two years 
and will be provided from funds available for economic conversion. 
Stage III will take up to three years to complete and the cost will be 
negotiated with a private firm selected through full and open 
competition. MSC will not be precluded from competing for Stage III as 
a result of their work on stages I and II.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the National Conversion Pilot 
Project is to convert former Defense facilities and hire former Defense 
production workers, to recycle radioactively contaminated DOE scrap 
metals. The Pilot Project has the following objectives: to develop a 
process to convert DOE surplus Defense facilities to alternative uses; 
to team stakeholders and regulators with DOE to resolve conversion 
issues; to create an economically competitive environment for 
conversion; to make immediate tangible progress in cleanup activities; 
to reduce DOE storage and waste management costs; to protect the 
environment through recycling; and to use potentially displaced workers 
and surplus facilities.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard B. Wallace, Contract 
Specialist, US Department of Energy, Rocky Flats Office, Acquisition 
and Financial Assistance Team, P.O. Box 928, Golden, CO 80402-0928, 
Purchase Requisition No. DE-FC34-94RF00733.

    Issued at Golden, CO, February 14, 1994.
Mark N. Silverman,
Manager.
[FR Doc. 94-4631 Filed 2-28-94; 8:45 am]
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