Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Initiative for United States Basins (DOE)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31325
• Date: 08 October 2020
• Published date: 08 October 2020

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ October 8, 2020 Page 5

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Grants alert (cont.)

and ecosystems in comparison to grey protective

infrastructure with respect to the risk of inundation

under future SLR. Surface transportation resilience

priorities include but are not limited to: quantifying the

vulnerability of surface transportation systems to SLR

and inundation, based on shoreline condition through

advancing existing predictive approaches and dynamic

models that could include eld-based studies; and

predicting the effects of SLR and inundation on surface

transportation infrastructure under varying risk mitigation

and management strategies, including protective

benets of the NNBF scenarios, in order to inform

technical and policy actions that increase long-term

transportation infrastructure resilience.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NOS-

NCCOS-2021-2006594

Gasication of blended coal, biomass

and plastic wastes to produce hydrogen (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s National Energy

Technology Laboratory seeks applications for the

Enabling Gasication of Blended Coal, Biomass and

Plastic Wastes to Produce Hydrogen with Potential for

Net Negative Carbon Dioxide Emissions to generate

lab-scale data and experience to further encourage

the development of technologies and commercial

approaches to enable a hydrogen-based energy

economy while achieving net-negative CO2 emissions

through gasication of coal, biomass and carbonaceous

mixed wastes such as plastics.

Deadline: Nov. 18, 2020.

Funds: Four awards of up to $500,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOE said the focus of this announcement

and single area of interest is the advancement of

technologies that aim to produce hydrogen or other

high-value fuels whether as the sole product or as a

coproduct, as would be the case in a polygeneration

facility. Waste plastic is also potentially an ideal

feedstock for several existing processes that fall under

this category due to its extremely high volatile matter

and low moisture and ash content.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002376

Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals

Initiative for United States Basins (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s National Energy

Technology Laboratory seeks applications for the

Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-

CM) Initiative for United States Basins announcement

for applications focused on the anticipated development

and implementation of U.S. regional strategies through

recipient-developed and coalition-led efforts for multiple

U.S. basins that will enable the realization of the full

economic potential of producing rare earth elements;

critical minerals; and high-value, nonfuel, carbon-based

products from coal.

Deadline: Jan. 5, 2021.

Funds: $122 million for up to eight awards of up to

$23.7 million.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOE said coalitions will be multifaceted and

include coal mining companies; regional private industries;

universities; training and workforce development

organizations; national laboratories; state, local and federal

agencies; and nonprot/nongovernmental stakeholders,

to facilitate the establishment of public-private innovation

centers to incubate innovated mining, beneciation,

processing and purication technologies. Each project is

anticipated to provide a foundation for educating the next

generation of technicians; skilled workers; and science,

technology, engineering and mathematics professionals

needed to implement each basin’s strategy.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002364

WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed

Management Program Phase II (DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s Bureau of

Reclamation seeks applications for the WaterSMART

Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase

II announcement to provide watershed groups with

funding for Phase II projects to implement on-the-ground

watershed management projects.

Deadline: Nov. 17, 2020.

Funds: $2 million total for up to 10 awards of up to

$300,000 per award are expected. There is a cost share

of 50% or more of project costs.

Eligibility: Established watershed groups located in

the Western United States or United States territories,

including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii,

Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New

Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,

Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, American Samoa,

Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin

Islands. See the announcement for complete details.

Areas: DOI said eligible projects include watershed

management activities that address critical water supply

needs, water quality concerns and restoration needs that

will benet multiple water uses in the watershed. Projects

may include but are not limited to: improving stream

channel structure and complexity; improving channel/

oodplain connectivity; protecting and stabilizing stream-

and riverbanks; reducing erosion; improving water

delivery systems to increase efficiency or other projects to

address water supply needs; and providing sh passage.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BOR-DO-21-F002

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