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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 

Morgantown Energy Technology Center; Financial Assistance Award; 
Solicitation Availability

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE), Morgantown Energy Technology 
Center.

ACTION: Solicitation available notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy is announcing it's intent to 
issue solicitation number DE-RP21-94MC31179, for cooperative agreement 
proposals for work entitled ``Environmental Management Technology 
Leveraging Initiative.'' The solicitation will be issued on or around 
May 3, 1994, with a proposal due date on or around June 8, 1994. The 
successful offeror will be tasked with:
    (1) Developing approaches and methodologies for environmental 
technology partnering and transfer, which means facilitating the 
licensing of DOE funded technologies, and guiding the startup of new 
venture companies with DOE developed technologies;
    (2) Assessing environmental technologies at various developmental 
stages, evaluating the commercial potential of the DOE developed 
technologies, and identifying domestic and global markets;
    (3) Establishing a central location for gathering, maintaining, and 
disseminating environmental technology information, and promoting 
coordination between DOE and U.S.-based industry to address 
environmental cleanup technology development issues of mutual interest, 
and
    (4) Establishing and maintaining a technology partnering knowledge 
base which will be capable of promoting a working knowledge of 
technology transfer requirements, (consisting of, for example: 
legislation and Departmental policy, technology transfer mechanisms, 
commercialization planning, licensing strategies, market assessments, 
business plan development [including debt and equity financing]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
D. Denise Riggi, I-07, U.S. Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy 
Technology Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, West Virginia 26507-0880, 
Telephone: (304) 291-4241.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This initiative will help fulfill some of 
the goals of the Office of Environmental Management which was 
established in November 1989 and was tasked with cleaning up to legacy 
of environmental pollution at DOE facilities, preventing further 
environmental contamination, and instituting responsible environmental 
management. The technology leveraging initiative is to transfer into 
practice technologies developed by DOE in its national laboratories or 
in other agreements. Considering that DOE and the world market needs 
for environmental cleanup are immense, there is a large potential 
market for technology transfer. Consequently, cost sharing will be a 
key consideration. It is anticipated that this activity will be 
partially DOE funded at initiation, and will mature to self sufficiency 
with little or no Government funding. Only written requests for the 
solicitation will be honored. Letters requesting the solicitation 
should be addressed to the attention of D. Denise Riggi, at the 
letterhead address and should reference the solicitation number, DE-
RP21-94MC31179.

    Issued in Washington, DC, April 14, 1994.
Randolph L. Kesling,
Acting Director, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Morgantown Energy 
Technology Center.
[FR Doc. 94-9814 Filed 4-21-94; 8:45 am]
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