[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 178 (Thursday, September 15, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-22888]
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[Federal Register: September 15, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Financial Assistance to Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative
AGENCY: Rocky Flats Field Office, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of noncompetitive financial assistance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy, Rocky Flats Field Office, gives
notice of its plan to make a noncompetitive financial assistance award
to the Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative (RFLII) based on the
criterion set forth at 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i)(C). $4,000,000 will be
provided to RFLII under DOE Grant No. DE-FG34-92RF00475 to implement
the Rocky Flats Community Economic Conversion Plan. The goal of this
Plan is to help the Rocky Flats community initiate economic development
activities to make new, innovative use of facilities, equipment, and
employee skills, or deploy technologies to the local area to create new
commercial products, processes or services. The Plan focuses on
supporting job creation for dislocated workers and to diversify the
local economy away from defense spending by facilitating marketing and
small business assistance, enhancing environmental and energy
technologies, and developing a capability for technical manufacturing
hands-on training. Priority is given to helping existing businesses
expand and in job creation; creating new start-up companies, and in
making the front range of Colorado a center for energy and
environmental technologies. The Plan consists of four major activities:
The Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur Resource Center; the Rocky Mountain
Environmental Remediation and Technology Center; the Rocky Mountain
Metals Manufacturing and Testing Academy; and the Regional Atmospheric
Response Center. According to business plans, the $4 million in seed
money will be leveraged with $34 million additional investments to
sustain the activities for the next four to five years.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (1) The Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur Resource
Center will be implemented by the Colorado Innovation Foundation, a
business incubation corporation to assist displaced RF personnel and
others to become successful entrepreneurs in the business of their
choice. The Center will function collaboratively with the Tri-County
Economic Development Offices, the Colorado Office of Business
Development, and private enterprise partners to provide day-to-day
business support and employment assistance.
(2) The Rocky Mountain Environmental Remediation and Technology
Center is composed of three separate, but coordinated, programs under
the overall management of the Colorado School of Mines: The Remediation
Technology Center; the Energy and Environment Education Center; and the
International Environmental Assistance Center.
(3) The Rocky Mountain Metals Manufacturing and Testing Academy
will implement a vocational education program that will provide
students with the most comprehensive metals manufacturing curriculum
available in the United States.
(4) The Regional Atmospheric Response Center will track hazardous
chemical plumes in an emergency for state and local governments and
private industry. The Center will apply state-of-the-art technology to
emergency response teams so they can notify the public in time to take
protective action.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dorothy Gross, Contract Specialist,
U.S. DOE, Rocky Flats Field Office, Contracts Management Division, P.O.
Box 928, Golden, CO 80402-0928.
Leanne Smith,
Acting Deputy Manager.
[FR Doc. 94-22888 Filed 9-14-94; 8:45 am]
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