[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 247 (Monday, December 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 67539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32328]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Outreach; Electric and Magnetic Field Effects 
Research and Public Information Dissemination Program; Solicitation for 
Non-Federal Financial Contributions for Fiscal Year 1997

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy today solicits financial 
contributions from non-Federal sources to at least match $4,000,000 in 
Federal funding, in support of the national, comprehensive Electric and 
Magnetic Field Effects Research and Public Information Dissemination 
Program, described in the Notice of Intent to Solicit Non-Federal 
Contributions, published November 9, 1993 (58 FR 59461). Section 2118 
of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13475) requires the 
Department of Energy to solicit funds from non-Federal sources to 
offset at least 50 percent of the total funding for all activities 
under this program. Section 2118 also precludes the Department of 
Energy from obligating funds for program activities in any fiscal year 
unless funds received from non-Federal sources are available in an 
amount at least equal to 50 percent of the amount appropriated by 
Congress. Appropriations for expenditure under section 2118 have been 
enacted under the Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1997 
(Pub. Law 104-206) in the amount of $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1997.

DATES: Non-Federal contributions are requested as soon as possible in 
order to implement the fiscal year 1997 program in a timely manner. No 
portion of the $4,000,000 in appropriated funds may be expended for 
fiscal year 1997 program activities until DOE has received from non-
Federal sources at least an aggregate sum of $2,000,000.

ADDRESSES: Contributions should be made in the form of a check payable 
to ``U.S. Department of Energy'' and should include the following 
annotation: ``For EPAct 2118, EMF Program''. Contributions are to be 
mailed to: U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Headquarters Accounting 
Operations; Fiscal Operations Division, CR-54; P.O. Box 500; 
Germantown, MD 20875-0500.

CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
For additional Information contact Lynne Gillette, Office of Energy 
Outreach, EE-14, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585 (202) 
586-1495.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on November 29, 1996.
Christine A. Ervin,
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 96-32328 Filed 12-20-96; 8:45 am]
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