U.S. Department of Energy, Golden Field Office, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401

99 -- REBUILD AMERICA PROGRAM SOL DE-PS36-96G010131 POC Contact, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (EREC), P.O. Box 3048, Merrifield, VA 22116. Telephone: (800) 363-3732. The DOE Office of Building Energy Research, under authority of Section 2104 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, Pub. Law No. 102-486, seeks to substantially increase the energy efficiency of existing commercial buildings by the year 2005. This solicitation is part of Action #1 of the Administration's Climate Change Action Plan to reduce energy use in buildings and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of this solicitation is to make multiple financial assistance awards to public/private sector groups that are expected to accelerate the use of cost-effective energy efficiency measures in commercial and multifamily residential housing in the United States. ''Commercial Building'' means a public or privately owned building with more than 50 percent of its floorspace used for commercial activities. Commercial buildings include, but are not limited to, stores, offices, schools, churches, auditoriums, gymnasiums, libraries, museums, hospitals, clinics, warehouses, and correctional facilities. Awardees will be expected to: apply retrofit energy efficiency improvements to a large portion of the total floorspace in existing commercial and multifamily buildings within a community or region by not later than five years after award date of the cooperative agreement, integrate and enhance existing energy efficiency improvement programs and capital investment resources in their community or region to support the implementation of their energy efficient retrofits, e.g., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Buildings Program or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities, and ensure that the activities initiated through the group will continue without further DOE funding. DOE will consider for award those entities which have not received a prior award under this program and which represent a consortium of private sector firms and the public sector which could include business partnerships, joint ventures or other business relationships between such organizations as profit and non-profit corporations, educational institutions, etc. Each cnsortium must include a state or local government organization as a member, but can be led by any organization. The awardee must propose to cost share at least 50% of the total project costs from non-federal sources in order to receive an award under the solicitation. Applicants will be expected to customize their program approaches to fit their community's needs and capabilities. Awards under this solicitation will be cooperative agreements. The term of the awards may be for up to five years. It is anticipated total DOE funding available for this round of awards will be approximately $2.5 million. Individual awards under this solicitation will not exceed $500,000 of DOE funding. DOE funds may not be used for capital investments needed to retrofit nor to purchase any buildings under any cooperative agreements awarded under this solicitation. The solicitation will be issued in December, 1995, and will contain detailed information on funding, cost sharing requirements, eligibility, application preparation, and evaluation. Responses to the solicitation will be due 120 days after solicitation release. To obtain a copy of the solicitation once it is issued in December, 1995, write to the U.S. Department of Energy's Golden Field Office, 1617 Cole Blvd, Golden, CO, 80401, Attn: Mr. John Motz, Contract Specialist. Only written requests for the solicitation will be honored. For convenience, requests for the solicitation may be faxed to Mr. Motz at (303) 275-4754. All responsible sources may submit an application and all timely applications will be considered, subject to the limitations considered above. (0317)

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