[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 193 (Friday, October 5, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57028-57029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-19689]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy


Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence Pre-
Solicitation Meeting

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice of pre-solicitation meeting on October 15, 2007 in San 
Antonio, Texas.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and 
Infrastructure Technologies Program is holding a pre-solicitation 
meeting on a planned Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence 
on October 15, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas at the Henry B. Gonzalez 
Convention Center at 3:30 p.m. CDT. A Web cast will also be available 
for anyone unable to attend the meeting in person. Detailed information 
regarding the meeting location, Web cast, and the solicitation 
materials for comment will be updated on the DOE Web site, http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/news_storage_center.html.
    At the meeting, DOE seeks questions and comments from the public on 
the draft solicitation materials that will be posted on this Web site. 
This information will be used in determining the scope of work of this 
new center of excellence and the associated solicitation, otherwise 
known as a

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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). Questions and comments will 
also be accepted via e-mail. All of the questions received (from the 
meeting and via e-mail) and the associated answers provided at the 
meeting will be posted on this Web site after the meeting.

DATES: Written questions and comments are welcome. These may be 
submitted via e-mail and must be received by 5 p.m. CDT on October 11, 
2007. Questions will also be taken during the actual meeting on October 
15, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Please submit all questions and comments to 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carole Read, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Mail Station 
EE-2H, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, Phone: 
(202) 586-3152, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the DOE's Hydrogen Program is 
to research, develop and validate fuel cell and hydrogen production, 
delivery, and storage technologies so that hydrogen from diverse 
domestic resources can be used in a clean, safe, reliable and 
affordable manner in fuel cell vehicles, electric power generation and 
combined heat and power applications. A critical requirement for 
enabling hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to achieve mass market penetration 
is the development of on-board hydrogen storage systems with enough 
capacity to meet driving range expectations (more than 300 miles in the 
United States), while meeting a number of requirements such as weight, 
volume and cost. Detailed technical targets developed by DOE, with 
input through the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, are available at: 
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/mypp/pdfs/storage.pdf.
    For more information about the DOE Hydrogen Program and related on-
board hydrogen storage activities visit the Program's Web site at 
http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov and http://www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells.

    Issued in Golden, CO on October 1, 2007.
Mary Foreman,
Procurement Director, DOE Golden Field Office.
[FR Doc. E7-19689 Filed 10-4-07; 8:45 am]
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