[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 149 (Thursday, August 2, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37806-37807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-16577]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Understanding Catalyst 
Production and Development Needs at National Laboratories

AGENCY: Bioenergy Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Request for information.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on 
its Request for Information (RFI) to understand research, capabilities 
and yet-to-be addressed challenges pertinent to production scale-up of 
catalysts for the conversion of biomass and waste streams. 
Additionally, through this RFI, the Bioenergy Technologies Office 
(BETO) seeks to understand enhancement capabilities of process 
development units at the National Laboratories in order to increase 
their impact.

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received no later than September 
14, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to 
[email protected]. Responses must be provided as attachments 
to an email. Include ``Understanding Catalyst Production and 
Development RFI'' as the subject of the email. It is recommended that 
attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) 
to ensure message delivery. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft 
Word (.docx) attachment to the email, and 12 point font, 1 inch 
margins. Only electronic responses will be accepted. The complete RFI 
document is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to Jim 
Spaeth, (720) 356-1784, or [email protected]. Further 
instructions can be found in the RFI document posted on EERE Exchange.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE posted on its website a RFI to solicit 
feedback from industry (including but not limited to research 
organizations, manufacturing organizations, catalyst manufacturers, and 
catalyst research consortia), academia, research laboratories, 
government agencies, and other biofuels and bioproducts stakeholders on 
``catalyst productions capability for biochemical and thermochemical 
processes.'' Specifically, BETO seeks information to help identify and 
understand additional areas of research, capabilities, and yet-to be-
addressed challenges pertinent to production scale-up challenges 
(typically in multi-kilogram quantities of novel catalysts used in 
technology development and engineering solutions for the efficient 
conversion of lignocellulosic, waste, and algal feedstocks to produce 
biofuels and bioproducts). The RFI [DE-FOA-00001951] is available at: 
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

Confidential Business Information

    Because information received in response to this RFI may be used to 
structure future programs, funding and/or otherwise be made available 
to the public, respondents are strongly advised to not include any 
information in their responses that might be considered business 
sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise confidential. If, however, a 
respondent chooses to submit business sensitive, proprietary, or 
otherwise confidential information, it must be clearly and 
conspicuously marked as such in the response as detailed in the RFI 
[DE-FOA-00001951] at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.
    Factors of interest to DOE when evaluating requests to treat 
submitted information as confidential include: (1) A description of the 
items; (2) whether and why such items are customarily treated as 
confidential within the industry; (3) whether the information is 
generally known by or available from other sources; (4) whether the 
information has previously been made available to others without 
obligation concerning its confidentiality; (5) an explanation of the 
competitive injury to the submitting person that would result from 
public disclosure; (6) when such information might lose its 
confidential character due to the passage of time; and (7) why 
disclosure of the information would be contrary to the public interest.


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    Signed in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2018.
Jonathan Male,
Director, Bioenergy Technologies Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-16577 Filed 8-1-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6450-01-P