[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 112 (Monday, June 12, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30845-30846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14240]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Financial Assistance Award; Intent to Award Cooperative Agreement 
To Florida State University

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy announces that pursuant to 10 CFR 
600.6(a)(5), it is making a discretionary financial assistance award 
based on the [[Page 30846]] criteria set forth at 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i) 
(A) and (B) to Florida State University (FSU), and FSU's Institute for 
Central and Eastern European Cooperative Environmental Research 
(ICEECER), both located in Tallahassee, Florida, under Cooperative 
Agreement Number DE-FC01-95EW55101. The DOE intends to make a 
noncompetitive financial assistance award. The purposes of the proposed 
cooperative agreement are to continue FSU's work in environmental 
research technology and development, which the DOE has funded for the 
previous five years, and to establish an identification and evaluation 
program of innovative environmental technologies on an international 
scale. This five-year effort will have a total estimated cost of 
$9,373,600.

DATES: Any comments or inquiries should be submitted by June 26, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please write the U.S. Department of 
Energy, Office of Placement and Administration, ATTN: Jeffrey R. 
Dulberg, HR-561.22, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed cooperative agreement will 
provide funding to FSU to continue its previous work focusing on both 
domestic U.S. and international environmental technology research and 
development and to establish a comprehensive program of identification 
and evaluation of innovative technologies. This program will encompass 
those technologies that are either currently being utilized in 
remediation efforts conducted by, or in development by, the DOE, other 
Federal agencies, State agencies, and private organizations. This 
program will also assist in the identification and evaluation of 
innovative technologies for environmental cleanup, which are under 
development by foreign scientists. ICEECER will conduct and participate 
in international symposia, conferences, workshops, and other meetings, 
which will serve as vehicles for identifying and evaluating these 
innovative environmental restoration technologies. The term of the 
project is planned to be five (5) years, commencing on June 30, 1995, 
and ending on June 29, 2000. The activity to be funded is necessary to 
the satisfactory completion of, or is a continuation or renewal of, an 
activity presently being funded by the DOE, and for which competition 
for support would have a significant adverse effect on continuity or 
completion of the activity. Without continuance of these worker safety 
studies funded by the DOE and which are still ongoing in Hungary, 
Poland, and throughout the former Soviet Union, the Government's 
investment to date would, in effect, be wasted, since the technologies 
being investigated are not yet mature enough for full scale 
implementation at U.S. cleanup sites. The activity is being conducted 
by the applicant using its own resources. FSU has invested its own 
resources in performing interdisciplinary research aimed at 
understanding and mitigating the effects that environmental pollutants 
have on human health and ecological systems. FSU has also invested its 
own resources in establishing critical links with academic institutions 
and private organizations in Central and Eastern Europe in the 
environmental technology field. By accelerating and significantly 
expanding FSU's current efforts, Departmental funding would enhance the 
public benefits to be derived. The DOE knows of no other entity which 
is conducting or is planning to conduct such an activity.
    Based on the evaluation of relevance to the accomplishment of a 
public purpose, it is determined that the proposal represents a 
beneficial method and approach: to continue developing and testing 
advanced environmental technologies that could result in significant 
cost reductions and increased worker safety for cleanup projects in the 
U.S.; to perform interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding and 
mitigating the effects that environmental pollutants have on human 
health and ecological systems; to heighten public awareness concerning 
innovative technologies for managing radioactive wastes, hazardous 
wastes, and mixed wastes; and, to identify and evaluate innovative 
technologies for site characterization, monitoring, and restoration, as 
well as for waste management and the environmental consequences of 
energy production.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 1, 1995.
Richard G. Lewis,
Contracting Officer, Office of Placement and Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-14240 Filed 6-9-95; 8:45 am]
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