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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 

Grant and Cooperative Agreement Award to Tulane University

[6450-01]
AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE), Richland Operations Office.

ACTION: Notice of intent to make a noncompetitive financial assistance 
award to Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, in partnership with 
Xavier University, also of New Orleans, LA.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy Richland Operations office announces 
that pursuant to 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2), it plans to negotiate and award 
noncompetitive grant DE-FG06-94RL12880 to Tulane University which, with 
Xavier University, will develop an education and training program to 
complement DOE's Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response 
(HAMMER) program. Specifically, the recipients are expected to initiate 
a comprehensive program which will provide the basis for development, 
testing and evaluation of curricula for training persons, particularly 
minorities, to work with hazardous materials, especially at U.S. 
Government facilities. It will also elucidate national standards for 
centers that provide such training.
    Further, the recipients plan to develop, pilot-test, and 
disseminate model education courses/curricula that produce workers and 
professionals needed by the United States to carry out a cost-effective 
environmental restoration and waste management initiative that will 
protect the health and safety of existing and future environmental 
restoration and waste management work forces.
    The project is expected to last for up to five years, with FY94 
funding estimated at up to four million dollars.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The cleanup of hazardous and radioactive 
wastes in the United States presents a technical challenge and a 
responsibility to protect the health and safety of the public as well 
as of workers. This award is expected to lead to the development of 
programs that will directly enhance health and safety of these 
individuals. Tulane and Xavier Universities have developed a level of 
combined environmental research and minority science education 
capability on which they will build to develop education strategies 
that can be nationally disseminated in order to enhance productivity 
and safety in the handling of hazardous materials and to encourage 
future workers to enter science and engineering fields that will 
address work force needs. The grant will be awarded under criteria 10 
CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i)(H) in justifying noncompetitive financial 
assistance. The DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration 
and Waste Management, with the concurrence of the Director of 
Procurement and Assistance Management, has determined that the award to 
Tulane/Xavier is in the public interest. Statutory authorities for this 
award are the Energy Reorganization Act (Pub. L. 93-438, title I, 
section 103(11), and the National Defense Authorization Act for 1994 
(Pub L. 103-160, section 31-42).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marji W. Parker, Grants Specialist, 
USDOE Richland Operations Office, Procurement Division A7-80, P.O. Box 
550 Richland, WA 99352, Telephone (509) 376-2029.

    Dated: March 16, 1994.
Robert D. Larson,
Director, Procurement Division, Richland Operations Office.
[FR Doc. 94-7561 Filed 3-29-94; 8:45 am]
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