[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 5 (Friday, January 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1188-1189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-394]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Golden Field Office; Innovative Technologies for Conversion of
Biomass to Transportation Fuels: Supplemental Announcement (02)
AGENCY: Golden Field Office, Department of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice of Broad Based Solicitation for Submission of Financial
Assistance Applications Involving Research, Development, and
Demonstration for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies,
DE-PS36-99GO10383.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Fuels Development of the Department of Energy's
(DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is
supporting the issuance of this Supplemental Announcement to EERE's
Broad Based Solicitation for Submission of Financial Assistance
Applications Involving Research, Development and Demonstration, DE-
PS36-99GO10383, dated November 9, 1998. Under the Supplemental
Announcement, DOE is soliciting applications to support innovative
technologies that will increase the efficiency or lower the cost of
producing and converting biomass to transportation fuels. The Office of
Fuels Development formulates, executes, and coordinates a balanced and
customer-focused national program of research, development, and
demonstration of technologies for the production of transportation
fuels from biomass. The biomass resources considered include
agricultural residues, forestry wastes, and crops grown specifically
for energy applications. Proposals are sought in areas of innovative
research and development of the following: plants capable of high
biomass yields; systems
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for culture, harvests, and handling of these high yielding plants;
enzymes and fermentation organisms for the production of ethanol from
biomass; approaches for converting cellulosic biomass to ethanol.
Awards under this Supplemental Announcement will be Cooperative
Agreements with a term of up to 12 months. Subject to funding
availability, it is anticipated the total DOE funding available under
this Supplemental Announcement will be $600,000, with individual awards
not to exceed $150,000 of DOE funding. A minimum Cost Share of 20% of
the total project cost is required under this Supplemental
Announcement.
All information regarding the Supplemental Announcement will be
posted on the DOE Golden Field Office Home page at the address
identified below.
DATES: DOE expects to issue the Supplemental Announcement the week of
December 7, 1998. The closing date of the Supplemental Announcement is
January 29, 1999.
ADDRESSES: The Supplemental Announcement will be posted on the DOE
Golden Field Office Home Page at http://www.eren.doe.gov/golden/
solicit.htm. It is DOE's intention not to issue hard copies of the
Supplemental Announcement.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Motz, Contract Specialist, at
303-275-4737, e-mail john__motz@nrel.gov, or Doug Hooker, Project
Officer, at 303-275-4780, e-mail doug__hooker@nrel.gov.
Issued in Golden, Colorado, on December 21, 1998.
Dated: December 21, 1998.
Ruth E. Adams,
Contracting Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-394 Filed 1-7-99; 8:45 am]
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