Energy and Minerals Research Facility

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
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Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description For design, construction and tenant build out of a facility to support energy and minerals research and associated structures, through a cooperative agreement with an academic partner. The new building will establish a center of excellence in minerals and energy science and provide opportunities for science collaboration that will leverage U.S. Geological Survey science; support the development of science, technology, engineering and mathematics talent by engaging students in U.S. Geological Survey science; and expand the diversity of the U.S. Geological Survey workforce.
Eligible Uses For design, construction, and tenant build out of a new Federally owned facility.
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Earth Mapping Resources Initiative

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Each fiscal year appropriated is available for obligation for 3 years. Funding will be received over a period of four years, with $8.668 million in fiscal year 2022 and $5 million in fiscal year 2023 through fiscal year 2025.
Program Description To accelerate the U.S. Geological Survey mapping mission by providing integrated topographic, geologic, geochemical, and geophysical mapping; accelerating the integration and consolidation of geospatial and resource data; and providing an interpretation of both critical mineral resources still in the ground and critical mineral resources that may be reprocessed from mine wastes.
Eligible Uses Cooperative agreements or contracts for mapping and data.
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Critical Material Supply Chain Research Facility

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
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ContractFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To support construction of a Critical Materials Supply Chain Research Facility.
Eligible Uses (A) Further enable research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities throughout the supply chain for critical materials; and (B) Provide an integrated, rapidly reconfigurable research platform.
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Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, And Alternatives

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
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GrantFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercialization to develop alternatives to critical materials, to promote their efficient production and use, and ensure a long-term secure and sustainable supply of them.
Eligible Uses (A) Alternative materials, particularly materials available in abundance within the United States and not subject to potential supply restrictions, that lessen the need for critical materials; (B) alternative energy technologies or alternative designs of existing energy technologies; (C) technologies or process improvements that minimize the use and content, or lead to more efficient use, of critical materials across the full supply chain; (D) innovative technologies and practices to diversify commercially viable and sustainable domestic sources of critical materials; (E) technologies, process improvements, or design optimizations that facilitate the recycling of critical materials; (F) advanced critical material extraction, production, separation, alloying, or processing technologies that decrease the energy consumption, environmental impact, and costs of those activities; (G) commercial markets, advanced storage methods, energy applications, and other beneficial uses of critical materials; and (H) advanced theoretical, computational, and experimental tools necessary to support the crosscutting research and development needs of diverse critical minerals stakeholders.
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Cost-effective Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
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GrantFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description A competitive grant program to enable sustained, cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes to save customers money on their energy bills.
Eligible Uses (A) To create or enable State or regional partnerships to provide training and materials to--(i) builders, contractors and subcontractors, architects, and other design and construction professionals, relating to meeting updated building energy codes in a cost-effective manner; and (ii) building code officials, relating to improving implementation of and compliance with building energy codes; (B) to collect and disseminate quantitative data on construction and codes implementation, including code pathways, performance metrics, and technologies used; (C) to develop and implement a plan for highly effective codes implementation, including measuring compliance; (D) to address various implementation needs in rural, suburban, and urban areas; and (E) to implement updates in energy codes for -- (i) new residential and commercial buildings (including multifamily buildings); and (ii) additions and alterations to existing residential and commercial buildings (including multifamily buildings).
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Commercial Direct Air Capture Technology Prize Competition

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
PrizeFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Reauthorization of program to support large-scale pilot projects and demonstration projects and test carbon capture technologies.
Eligible Uses Projects that advance the technical and commercial viability of technologies that result in net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing Recycling Research, Development, and Demonstration Program

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or any other agreements authorized under this Act or other Federal lawFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To provide Federal financial assistance to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques.
Eligible Uses (A) Increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from clean hydrogen technology components and systems; (B) minimizing environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (C) addressing any barriers to the research, development, demonstration, and commercialization of technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling; (D) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of clean hydrogen technologies; (E) developing alternative disassembly and resource recovery processes that enable efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of and resource recovery from clean hydrogen technologies; and (F) developing strategies to increase consumer acceptance of and participation in the recycling of fuel cells.
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Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grants, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements, or any other agreements authorized under this Act or other Federal lawFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To establish a research, development, demonstration, and deployment program for purposes of commercialization to improve the efficiency, increase the durability, and reduce the cost of producing clean hydrogen using electrolyzers.
Eligible Uses (1) To demonstrate technologies that produce clean hydrogen using electrolyzers; and (2) to validate information on the cost, efficiency, durability, and feasibility of commercial deployment.
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Career Skills Training

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
GrantFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To provide grants to pay the Federal share of career skills training programs under which students concurrently receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training for the purpose of obtaining an industry-related certification to install energy efficient building technologies.
Eligible Uses To pay the Federal share of associated career skills training programs under which students concurrently receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training for the purpose of obtaining an industry-related certification to install energy efficient buildings technologies.
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Carbon Utilization Program

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
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GrantFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To establish a grant program for State and local governments to procure and use products derived from captured carbon oxides.
Eligible Uses An eligible entity shall use a grant received under this paragraph to procure and use commercial or industrial products that: (i) use or are derived from anthropogenic carbon oxides; and (ii) demonstrate significant net reductions in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to incumbent technologies, processes, and products.
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Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Loan / GrantFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To establish and carry out a carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program.
Eligible Uses Projects that: (A) are large-capacity, common carrier infrastructure; (B) have demonstrated demand for use of the infrastructure by associated projects that capture carbon dioxide from anthropogenic sources or ambient air; (C) enable geographical diversity in associated projects that capture carbon dioxide from anthropogenic sources or ambient air, with the goal of enabling projects in all major carbon dioxide-emitting regions of the United States; and (D) are sited within, or adjacent to, existing pipelines or other linear infrastructure corridors, in a manner that minimizes environmental disturbance and other siting concerns.
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Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Programs

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
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Cooperative AgreementFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Department of EnergyAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description To establish a carbon capture technology program for the development of transformational technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, costs, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of coal and natural gas use, including in manufacturing and industrial facilities.
Eligible Uses Pilot projects that--(A) represent the scale of technology development beyond laboratory development and bench scale testing, but not yet advanced to the point of being tested under real operational conditions at commercial scale; (B) represent the scale of technology necessary to gain the operational data needed to understand the technical and performance risks of the technology before the application of that technology at commercial scale or in commercial-scale demonstration; and (C) are large enough--(i) to validate scaling factors; and (ii) to demonstrate the interaction between major components so that control philosophies for a new process can be developed and enable the technology to advance from large-scale pilot project application to commercial-scale demonstration or application.
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