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A -- EMISSION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5) OZONED, AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES SOL DE-PS26-99FT40521 DUE 042699 POC Thomas J. Gruber, 412-892-5897 WEB: click here to download a copy of the P. S., www.fetc.doe.gov/business/solicit. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting specialist, gruber@fetc.doe.gov. ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABILITY OF SOLICITATION. The Department of Enegy (DOE) intends to conduct a competitive solicitation an award cooperative agreeements for the program discribed below. This Program Solicitation (P.S.) is sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE)Environmental Products Line, Advanced Research and Environmental Technologies (AR&ET) managed by the Federal Energy Technology Center. The primary mission of the AR&ET program is to develop advanced environmental control technology for both existing and new coal-fired power plants and provide high quality scientific information on present and emerging environmental issues for use in regulatory and policy decision-making. The objective of this P.S. is two-fold. The first is to seek retrofit technologies, processes, or concepts that have a high probability for commercial readiness within a relatively short timeframe to address current emissions control requirements. The second is to seek retrofit technologies, processes, or concepts that will advance the current state-of-the-art related to potential future emissions control regulations. The P.S. ascribes highest priority to advanced technologies, processes, or concepts that will provide the coal-fired electric-utility industry with near-term cost-effective and efficient approaches for meeting the current NO emissions control requirements (e.g., 22-State SIP Call). In this regard, the P.S. is seeking technologies, processes, or concepts that will be ready for commercial deployment by 2002-2004, and allows for the parametric testing (optimization) of full-scale control systems. Secondary priority will be given to proposals focused on technologies, processes, and concepts related to potential future controls on NO and PM emissions directed at ambient fine particulate matter, regional haze, ozone, atmospheric nitrogen deposition, and acid gases. In this regard, the P.S. is seeking technologies, processes, or concepts that will be ready for commercial deployment by 2005-2008. The P.S. is limited to those technologies, processes, and concepts that are applicable to utility boilers that combustion U.S. coals as the primary fuel and that can be retrofitted to existing coal-based power systems. The work solicited does not duplicate or displace private and other public research and development efforts. The P.S. has two broad Areas of Interest. The first area is the COST-EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT CONTROL OF NITROGEN OXIDE (NO) EMISSIONS FROM COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC UTILITY BOILERS. The second area is the COST-EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT CONTROL OF FINE PARTICULATE EMISSIONS FROM COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC UTILITY BOILERS. Within the first Area of Interest are two Technical Topics (TT): TT1 -- Advanced Technologies and Systems and TT2 -- Field Testing and Optimization. Within the second Area of Interest are two Technical Topics: TT3 -- Primary PM Emissions Control and TT4 -- Acid Aerosols/Condensibles Emissions Control. Each proposal shall target only one of the four Technical Topics. A minimum cost sharing of 20% of total estimated cost is required on all Technical Topics with the exception of TT2 -- Field Testing and Optimization, which requires a minimum of 50% cost sharing. The P.S. will be made available via the Internet as a Word Perfect 6.1 (Windows) document or in the Portable Document Format (PDF) on the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://www.fetc.doe.gov/business/solicit (select "solicitations") on or about March 25, 1999 and that closing date for submission of proposals will be 45 days after issuance of the solicitation. If you do not have access to the Internet you can request a disc copy for he solicitation by writing to the address listed in this announcement to the attention of Thomas J. Gruber. No telephone requests will be honored. Posted 03/10/99 (W-SN307000). (0069)

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