Bipartisan Infrastructure Law titled: "BIL - Front-End Engineering and Design Studies for Production of Critical Minerals and Material from Coal-Bas…

The Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement. Awards made under this Announcement will be funded in whole with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will invest appropriations of $32 million for Front-End Engineering and Design studies for two different sizes, intermediate-scale and demonstration-scale, of Rare Earth Element Facilities that demonstrate the extraction, separation, and refining from coal and coal by-products to high purity individual or binary rare earth metals and/or critical minerals and materials.

Amendment 000001- The purpose of this amendment is to add a requirement for awardees, for either topic area, to participate as a member of the Critical Materials Collaborative. Please see the Funding Opportunity Announcement for the full text of the amendment.

See Section III of the Funding Opportunity Announcement