Notice of Intent DE-FOA-0003159 to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002614 titled Carbon Management (Round 4)In support of Executive Order 14008 (dated January 27, 2021), Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, and to further past decades of DOE-supported carbon management research,
development and demonstration done in cooperation with industry and academia to solve climate change challenges, DOE-FECM anticipates issuing a FOA, seeking applications for financial assistance awards that support research and development for a variety of carbon management technologies.
Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:FedConnect
Additional Information of Eligibility:Eligible applicant must be a current DOT-funded University Transportation Center (UTC) with capabilities in research and technology transfer related to bridge materials, approaches and technologies and associated sciences of a scope that covers the requested services.
Additionally, only those UTCs which are currently funded by U. S. DOT under the provisions and budget authorization of the Infrastructure Improvements and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) are eligible to submit proposals.
In addition, the UTC must have demonstrable knowledge and experience performing the following responsibilities: 1) scan for new and advanced bridge approaches and technologies, 2) evaluate these approaches and technologies, 3) make these approaches and technologies along with their evaluations available to the public on the bridge clearinghouse, 4) facilitate the adoption of these approaches and technologies, and 5) evaluate ABTC success and performance in transitioning new and advance materials and other bridge approaches and technologies to practice.The language in the Congressional House Appropriations Committee Report # 117-99 budget authorization limits the award to only “relevant” UTCs.
(see the italicized language below) “Bridge clearinghouse.--The Committee directs DOT to work with relevant UTCs to implement an Accelerated Bridge Technologies Clearinghouse….”Therefore, the eligible UTC should demonstrate that it currently has the capability and responsibility (under the BIL UTC program) to perform a substantive role in carrying out the cooperative agreement activities.
The recipient Eligible Entity, UTC, will be the direct and primary recipient of the U. S. DOT funds and must perform a substantive role in carrying out the cooperative agreement activities; it may not serve primarily as a conduit for awards to another party.
Full Opportunity Web Address:https://www.fedconnect.netContact: Agency Email Description: Click to email contact
Agency Email: Date Posted: 2023-08-18
Application Due Date: Archive Date: 2023-12-31