Notice2024-29696
Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Formula Grants to States and Indian Tribes
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December 17, 2024
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Energy Department
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) intends to issue, on behalf of the DOE Grid Deployment Office (GDO), an amendment to the Administrative Legal Requirements Document (ALRD) DE-FOA-0002736 (BIL--Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Formula Grants to States and Indian Tribes) in February 2025, titled Amendment 000010. This grant program is authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Amendment 000010 to DE-FOA-0002736 will provide access to Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 formula grant allocations.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 102123-102125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29696]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric
Grid Formula Grants to States and Indian Tribes
AGENCY: Grid Deployment Office, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy
Technology Laboratory (NETL) intends to issue, on behalf of the DOE
Grid Deployment Office (GDO), an amendment to the Administrative Legal
Requirements Document (ALRD) DE-FOA-0002736 (BIL--Preventing Outages
and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Formula Grants to
States and Indian Tribes) in February 2025, titled Amendment 000010.
This grant program is authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law (BIL). Amendment 000010 to DE-FOA-0002736 will provide access to
Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 formula grant allocations.
ADDRESSES: Requests for more information should be addressed by
electronic mail to Cory Felder, Senior Project Manager, at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#93f0fce1eabdf5f6fff7f6e1d3fbe2bdf7fcf6bdf4fce5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="75161a070c5b131019111007351d045b111a105b121a03">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cory Felder, (240) 597-8694,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fa99958883d49c9f969e9f88ba928bd49e959fd49d958c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1d7e726f64337b787179786f5d756c33797278337a726b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment
in infrastructure, which will grow a more sustainable, resilient, and
equitable economy through enhancing U.S. competitiveness, driving the
creation of good-paying union jobs, and ensuring access to economic,
environmental, and other benefits for disadvantaged
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communities.\1\ The BIL appropriates more than $62 billion to DOE to
invest in American manufacturing and workers \2\ expand access to
energy efficiency; deliver reliable, clean and affordable power to more
Americans; and deploy the technologies of tomorrow through clean energy
demonstrations. The forthcoming ALRD Amendment 000010, expected to take
effect in February 2025 (available at: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002736&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002736&agency=DOE</a>) will support Congressional
goals to (1) demonstrate measurable improvements in energy resilience
in the United States and mitigate climate related risk, (2) invest in
modernized grid infrastructure that can enable consumer access to
lower-cost energy and accommodate increased electrification, increased
penetrations of variable renewable electricity and distributed energy
resources, and other evolving system needs over the coming decades, (3)
invest in clean energy and decarbonization solutions to achieve a
carbon-free power sector by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions
economy-wide by 2050, and (4) create good-paying jobs with the free and
fair choice to join a union.
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\1\ Pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14008
(<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad">www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad</a>/),
``Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,'' January 27,
2021, and the Office of Management and Budget's Interim Justice40
Implementation Guidance M-21-28 (<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/M-21-28.pdf">www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/M-21-28.pdf</a>) and Addendum M-23-09
(<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/M-23-09_Signed_CEQ_CPO.pdf">www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/M-23-09_Signed_CEQ_CPO.pdf</a>), DOE recognizes disadvantaged communities as
the census tracts identified as disadvantaged by the White House
Council on Environmental Quality's Climate and Economic Justice
Screening Tool (CEJST), located at <a href="https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/">https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/</a>, as well as all Federally Recognized
Tribes (whether or not they have land). See <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/M-23-09_Signed_CEQ_CPO.pdf">https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/M-23-09_Signed_CEQ_CPO.pdf</a>. DOE's Justice40 Implementation Guidance is
located at <a href="https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/Final%20DOE%20Justice40%20General%20Guidance%20072522.pdf">https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/Final%20DOE%20Justice40%20General%20Guidance%20072522.pdf</a>.
\2\ U.S. Department of Energy (November 2021) ``DOE Fact Sheet:
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Will Deliver For American
Workers, Families and Usher in the Clean Energy Future.'' <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-fact-sheet-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-will-deliver-american-workers-families-and-0">https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-fact-sheet-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-will-deliver-american-workers-families-and-0</a>.
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The purpose of the forthcoming ALRD Amendment 000010 is to allow
for submission of applications for the FY 2025 formula grant
allocations. The FY 2025 formula grant allocation amounts are available
at: <a href="https://netl.doe.gov/bilhub/grid-resilience/formula-grants">https://netl.doe.gov/bilhub/grid-resilience/formula-grants</a>. The
process for requesting a FY 2025 allocation depends on whether the
applicant is an existing grant recipient or a new grant applicant:
<bullet> Existing Grant Recipients that have already received
grants for FY 2022, FY 2023 or FY 2024 of the Program will have 90 days
from issuance of the ALRD Amendment 000010 to request their FY 2025
allocation, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of their
current Grant award.
<bullet> New Grant Applicants are eligible applicants (as defined
in ALRD Amendment 000010) that did not receive a grant for FY 2022, FY
2023 or FY 2024. New Grant Applicants will have 90 days from issuance
of the ALRD Amendment 000010 to submit a grant application for a FY
2025 allocation. Several one-time actions, explained below, must be
completed before an application can be submitted, including
registration with the System for Award Management (SAM), obtaining a
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), and registering with <a href="http://FedConnect.net">FedConnect.net</a>.
These actions can be completed prior to the issuance of ALRD Amendment
000010. Prospective New Grant Applicants are encouraged to address
these items as soon as possible, as some may take several weeks to
complete. Additional instructions for New Grant Applicants will be
provided in the ALRD Amendment 000010.
Note: Neither applications nor allocation requests are being
accepted at this time.
The current ALRD (Amendment 000009) is available at: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002736&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002736&agency=DOE</a>.
New Grant Applicants must complete the following steps in order to
submit their application via FedConnect: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002736&agency=DOE">https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0002736&agency=DOE</a>.
Pre-application actions: <a href="https://www.sam.gov/">https://www.sam.gov/</a>.
SAM--Applicants must register with the SAM at: <a href="https://www.sam.gov/">https://www.sam.gov/</a>
prior to submitting an application in response to this ALRD.
Designating an Electronic Business Point of Contact (EBiz POC) and
obtaining a special password called an MPIN are important steps in SAM
registration. The applicant must maintain an active SAM registration
with current information at all times during which it has an active
Federal award or an application under consideration. More information
about SAM registration for applicants is available at: <a href="https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=gsafsd_kb_articles&sys_id=650d493e1bab7c105465">https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=gsafsd_kb_articles&sys_id=650d493e1bab7c105465</a>
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Note: If clicking the SAM links do not work, please copy and
paste the link into your browser.
UEI--Applicants must obtain an UEI from the SAM to uniquely
identify the entity. The UEI is available in the SAM entity
registration record.
Note: Subawardees/subrecipients at all tiers must also obtain
an UEI from the SAM and provide the UEI to the award recipient
before the subaward can be issued.
Note: Due to the high demand of UEI requests and SAM
registrations, entity legal business name and address validations
are taking longer than expected to process. Entities should start
the UEI and SAM registration process as soon as possible. If
entities have technical difficulties with the UEI validation or SAM
registration process they should utilize the HELP feature on
<a href="http://SAM.gov">SAM.gov</a>. <a href="http://SAM.gov">SAM.gov</a> will address entity service tickets in the order in
which they are received and asks that entities not create multiple
service tickets for the same request or technical issue.
<a href="http://FedConnect.net">FedConnect.net</a>--Applicants must register with FedConnect to submit
applications in response to the ALRD, to submit questions, and to
receive the award. FedConnect website: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/">https://www.fedconnect.net/</a>. For
more information regarding registration with FedConnect, review the
FedConnect Ready, Set, Go! Guide at: <a href="https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/Marketing/Documents/FedConnect_Ready_Set_Go.pdf">https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/Marketing/Documents/FedConnect_Ready_Set_Go.pdf</a>.
Electronic Signatures--Acknowledgement of award documents by the
Grant Recipient authorized representative through electronic systems
used by the Department of Energy, including FedConnect, constitutes the
Grantee's acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of the award.
Acknowledgement via FedConnect by the Grantee's authorized
representative constitutes the Grantee's electronic signature.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on December 6,
2024, by Maria D. Robinson, Director, 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 upon publication in the
Federal Register.
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Signed in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-29696 Filed 12-16-24; 8:45 am]
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