NETL Funding Opportunities

This Teaming Partner List (TPL) is for DE-FOA-0003583 (NOFO) Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA): Mines & Metals Capacity Expansion – Piloting By-Product Critical Minerals and Materials Recovery at Domestic Industrial Facilities.

IT IS OPTIONAL TO COMPLETE THIS TPL.

A Teaming Partner List may be used to facilitate the formation of new project teams for the announcement. The list allows organizations to express their interest and to explore potential partnerships.

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DE-FOA-0003583: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ( IIJA) - Mines & Metals Capacity Expansion - Piloting Byproduct Critical Minerals and Materials Recovery at Domestric Industrial Facilities 

This NOFO invests in American industrial facilities that have the potential to produce valuable critical materials from existing industrial processes and legacy waste streams. Industries such as mining and mineral processing, power generation, coal, oil and gas, specialty metals, and basic materials have the potential to recover valuable materials that will address many of America’s most severe mineral vulnerabilities. The goal of this NOFO is to increase domestic critical material production.

American industrial facilities have enormous potential to recover valuable mineral coproducts and byproducts from ongoing operations and legacy waste streams such as mine tailings, impoundments, and coal ash. To de-risk industry investments, the technology for recovering these materials must be piloted under real-world conditions and at a scale relevant to each industry.

There are two topic areas:

Topic Area 1: Mines & Metals Pilots—Coal-Based Industry.

Topic Area 2: Mines & Metals Pilots—All Industries

Projects are expected to produce qualified market-ready CMM products, and other value-added materials with potential offtake agreements. In addition, projects will generate the critically needed information and operational data required for the development of a near-term commercial facility within the U.S.

This is a Notice of Intent (NOI) to Issue Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. DE-FOA-0003583, titled: Mines and Metals Capacity Expansion – Piloting By-Product Critical Minerals and Materials Recovery at Domestic Industrial Facilities.

The goal of the planned NOFO is to facilitate the development of large pilot-scale facilities to recover domestic critical minerals and materials (CMM), including rare earth elements (REE), graphite, and other value-added products from operating industrial facilities. Example industries with byproduct production potential include: phosphate, fertilizer, oil and gas, smelting, mining, waste management. Goal-related resources will be eligible in this program.

Disclaimer
This NOI is issued so that interested parties are aware that DOE may issue a NOFO as described herein, may issue a NOFO that is significantly different than what is described herein, or may not issue a NOFO at all. Any information contained within this NOI is subject to change.
No concept papers, letters of intent, or full applications are being requested nor accepted in response to this NOI. The Department is not seeking comments on the information in this notice and will not respond to questions concerning this Notice. Upon release of a NOFO, an avenue for potential applicants to submit questions will be provided.