[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 178 (Thursday, September 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-22888]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 

Financial Assistance to Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative

AGENCY: Rocky Flats Field Office, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of noncompetitive financial assistance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy, Rocky Flats Field Office, gives 
notice of its plan to make a noncompetitive financial assistance award 
to the Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative (RFLII) based on the 
criterion set forth at 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i)(C). $4,000,000 will be 
provided to RFLII under DOE Grant No. DE-FG34-92RF00475 to implement 
the Rocky Flats Community Economic Conversion Plan. The goal of this 
Plan is to help the Rocky Flats community initiate economic development 
activities to make new, innovative use of facilities, equipment, and 
employee skills, or deploy technologies to the local area to create new 
commercial products, processes or services. The Plan focuses on 
supporting job creation for dislocated workers and to diversify the 
local economy away from defense spending by facilitating marketing and 
small business assistance, enhancing environmental and energy 
technologies, and developing a capability for technical manufacturing 
hands-on training. Priority is given to helping existing businesses 
expand and in job creation; creating new start-up companies, and in 
making the front range of Colorado a center for energy and 
environmental technologies. The Plan consists of four major activities: 
The Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur Resource Center; the Rocky Mountain 
Environmental Remediation and Technology Center; the Rocky Mountain 
Metals Manufacturing and Testing Academy; and the Regional Atmospheric 
Response Center. According to business plans, the $4 million in seed 
money will be leveraged with $34 million additional investments to 
sustain the activities for the next four to five years.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (1) The Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur Resource 
Center will be implemented by the Colorado Innovation Foundation, a 
business incubation corporation to assist displaced RF personnel and 
others to become successful entrepreneurs in the business of their 
choice. The Center will function collaboratively with the Tri-County 
Economic Development Offices, the Colorado Office of Business 
Development, and private enterprise partners to provide day-to-day 
business support and employment assistance.
    (2) The Rocky Mountain Environmental Remediation and Technology 
Center is composed of three separate, but coordinated, programs under 
the overall management of the Colorado School of Mines: The Remediation 
Technology Center; the Energy and Environment Education Center; and the 
International Environmental Assistance Center.
    (3) The Rocky Mountain Metals Manufacturing and Testing Academy 
will implement a vocational education program that will provide 
students with the most comprehensive metals manufacturing curriculum 
available in the United States.
    (4) The Regional Atmospheric Response Center will track hazardous 
chemical plumes in an emergency for state and local governments and 
private industry. The Center will apply state-of-the-art technology to 
emergency response teams so they can notify the public in time to take 
protective action.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dorothy Gross, Contract Specialist, 
U.S. DOE, Rocky Flats Field Office, Contracts Management Division, P.O. 
Box 928, Golden, CO 80402-0928.
Leanne Smith,
Acting Deputy Manager.
[FR Doc. 94-22888 Filed 9-14-94; 8:45 am]
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