Notice2022-19308
Request for Information on Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships Program
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Published
September 7, 2022
Issuing agencies
Energy Department
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) invites public comment on its request for information (RFI) on DOE's implementation strategy for the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) program, including on the competitive solicitation process, draft funding opportunity announcement (FOA) language, prioritization of topics and projects, and selection criteria.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 172 (Wednesday, September 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54681-54682]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19308]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Request for Information on Grid Resilience and Innovation
Partnerships Program
AGENCY: Grid Deployment Office, U.S. Department of Energy.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) invites
public comment on its request for information (RFI) on DOE's
implementation strategy for the Grid Resilience and Innovation
Partnerships (GRIP) program, including on the competitive solicitation
process, draft funding opportunity announcement (FOA) language,
prioritization of topics and projects, and selection criteria.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by no later than 5 p.m.
EDT on October 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit questions, comments, and
responses to the Department's RFI to the following email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0b4c4f44594d424b637a256f646e256c647d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1b5c5f54495d525b736a357f747e357c746d">[email protected]</span></a>. Include ``Grid Resilience and Innovation
Partnerships Program'' in the subject line of the email. Responses must
be provided as a Microsoft Word (.docx) or PDF attachment to the email,
and no more than 20 pages in length, 12-point font, 1-inch margins. It
is recommended that attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be
compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. Only electronic
responses will be accepted. For ease of replying and to aid
categorization of your responses, please copy and paste the RFI
questions, including the question numbering, and use them as a template
for your response. Respondents may answer as many or as few questions
as they wish. The Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP)
program RFI is available at: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002827&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002827&agency=DOE</a>. The Draft Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) for FY22 and FY23 GRIP funding is available at:
<a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002740&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002740&agency=DOE</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please contact: Dylan Reed, (202) 586-
3185, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ce898a819c88878ea6bfe0aaa1abe0a9a1b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0740434855414e476f762963686229606871">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(IIJA) (Pub. L. 117-58) approximately $10.5 billion for the five-year
period encompassing FY22 through FY26, to prevent outages and enhance
the resilience of the electric grid, deploy technologies to enhance
grid flexibility, and to demonstrate innovative approaches to power
sector infrastructure resilience and reliability. Together, DOE refers
to these programs as the GRIP program.
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry,
academia, research laboratories, government agencies, State and local
officials, labor unions, Tribes, community-based organizations (CBOs),
and other stakeholders on issues related to the GRIP program.
To help inform DOE's implementation of the IIJA provisions
referenced previously, this RFI seeks input on the following
categories:
1. DOE's implementation strategy and approach for the GRIP program,
both overall and for each of the individual topic areas.
2. DOE's approach to Community Benefits including engagement,
quality jobs, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA),
and Justice40.
3. Build America, Buy America requirements.
This is solely a request for information and is not a funding
opportunity announcement. DOE is not accepting applications at this
time and will not reimburse any of respondents' costs in preparing a
response.
The complete GRIP program RFI can be found at: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002827&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002827&agency=DOE</a>.
The Draft FOA for FY22 and FY23 GRIP Funding can be found at:
<a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002740&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002740&agency=DOE</a>.
Proprietary Information
Because information received in response to this RFI may be used to
structure future programs and formula grant allocations and/or
otherwise be made available to the public, respondents are strongly
advised NOT to include any information in their responses that might be
considered business sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise confidential.
If, however, a respondent chooses to submit business sensitive,
proprietary, or otherwise confidential information, it must be clearly
and conspicuously marked as such in the response. Responses containing
confidential, proprietary, or privileged information must be
conspicuously marked as described below. Failure to comply with these
marking requirements may result in the disclosure of the unmarked
information under the Freedom of Information Act or otherwise. The U.S.
Federal Government is not liable for the disclosure or use of unmarked
information and may use or disclose such information for any purpose.
Confidential, Commercial, and Financial Information. Consistent
with 10 CFR 1004.11, DOE requires that any person submitting
information that he or she believes to be confidential and exempt by
law from public disclosure should submit via email two well-marked
copies: One copy of the document marked ``Confidential Commercial and
Financial Information'' including all the information believed to be
confidential, and one copy of the document marked ``non-confidential''
with the information believed to be confidential deleted. DOE will make
its own determination about the confidential status of the information
and treat it according to its determination. The copy containing
confidential commercial and financial information must include a cover
sheet marked as follows identifying the specific pages containing
confidential, proprietary, or privileged information: ``Notice of
Restriction on Disclosure and Use of Data: Pages [list applicable
pages] of this response may contain confidential, commercial, or
financial information that is exempt from public disclosure.'' The
Government may use or disclose any information that is not
appropriately marked or otherwise restricted, regardless of source. In
addition, (1) the header and footer of every page that contains
confidential, proprietary, or privileged information must be marked as
follows: ``Contains Confidential, Commercial, or Financial Information
Exempt from Public Disclosure'' and (2) every line and paragraph
containing proprietary, privileged, or trade secret information must be
clearly marked with [[double brackets]] or highlighting.
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Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on September
1, 2022, by Maria D. Robinson, Director of the Grid Deployment Office,
pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That
document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way
alters the legal effect of this document on publication in the Federal
Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on September 1, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-19308 Filed 9-6-22; 8:45 am]
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