[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 30094]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11728]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Idaho Operations Office; Notice of Availability of Solicitation 
for Awards of Financial Assistance

AGENCY: Idaho Operations Office, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of availability of solicitation--Aluminum Visions of the 
Future.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho Operations Office 
(ID) is seeking applications for cost-shared research and development 
of technologies which will reduce energy consumption, reduce 
environmental impacts and enhance economic competitiveness of the 
domestic aluminum industry. The research is to address research 
priorities identified by the aluminum industry in the Aluminum Industry 
Technology Roadmap and the Inert Anode Roadmap, (available at the 
following URL: http://www.oit.doe.gov/aluminum/alindust.shtml).

DATES: The Standard Form 424, and the technical application (20 page 
maximum), must be submitted by 3:00 p.m. MST on Wednesday, July 12, 
2000.

ADDRESSES: Applications should be submitted to: Elizabeth Dahl, 
Contract Specialist, Procurement Services Division, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Idaho Operations Office, 850 Energy Drive, Mail Stop 1221, 
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401-1563.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Dahl, Contract Specialist at 
[email protected], facsimile at (208) 526-5548, or by telephone at 
(208) 526-7214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Approximately $3,000,000 in combined fiscal 
year 2000 and 2001 federal funds is expected to be available to totally 
fund the first year of selected research efforts. DOE anticipates 
making four to six awards each with a duration of four years or less. 
This solicitation is requiring 50% cost share to ensure industrial 
involvement in each of the proposals and to ensure that the novel, 
energy efficient processes developed by this R&D program will be fully 
implemented by industry. There will be no waivers of this cost share 
requirement. Multi-partner collaborations between industry, university, 
and National Laboratory participants are encouraged. The issuance date 
of Solicitation Number DE-PS07-00ID13914 is on or about May 8, 2000. 
The solicitation is available in its full text via the Internet at the 
following address: http://www.id.doe.gov/doeid/PSD/proc-div.html. The 
statutory authority for this program is the Federal Non-Nuclear Energy 
Research and Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-577). The Catalog 
of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number for this program is 
81.086.

    Issued in Idaho Falls on May 3, 2000.
R.J. Hoyles,
Director, Procurement Services Division.
[FR Doc. 00-11728 Filed 5-9-00; 8:45 am]
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