Notice2025-12054
Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on 2026 Energy Critical Materials Assessment
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Published
June 30, 2025
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Energy Department
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on its Request for Information (RFI) number DE-FOA-0003568 regarding the 2026 Energy Critical Materials Assessment. This RFI seeks public comment on energy technologies of interest, materials of interest, supply chain information, market dynamics, challenges to domestic industry, methodology, DOE critical materials and DOI critical minerals lists, and other stakeholder issues related to the Energy Critical Materials Assessment. Such input will inform the 2026 Energy Critical Materials Assessment.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 123 (Monday, June 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 27859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12054]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on 2026 Energy Critical
Materials Assessment
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on
its Request for Information (RFI) number DE-FOA-0003568 regarding the
2026 Energy Critical Materials Assessment. This RFI seeks public
comment on energy technologies of interest, materials of interest,
supply chain information, market dynamics, challenges to domestic
industry, methodology, DOE critical materials and DOI critical minerals
lists, and other stakeholder issues related to the Energy Critical
Materials Assessment. Such input will inform the 2026 Energy Critical
Materials Assessment.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by July 25, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b1f4dfd4c3d6c8f2c3d8c5d8d2d0ddfcd0c5d4c3d8d0ddc2e3f7f8f1d4d49fd5ded49fd6dec7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="14517a7166736d57667d607d77757859756071667d75786746525d5471713a707b713a737b62">[email protected]</span></a>. Include ``Energy Critical
Materials Assessment'' in the subject line of the email. Only
electronic responses will be accepted. The complete RFI document is
located at <a href="https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f">https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to Kathryn
Peretti at (202) 748-3791, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#254e44514d575c4b0b5540574051514c6540400b414a400b424a53"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="701b11041802091e5e001502150404193015155e141f155e171f06">[email protected]</span></a>, or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d693b8b3a4b1af95a4bfa2bfb5b7ba9bb7a2b3a4bfb7baa584909f96b3b3f8b2b9b3f8b1b9a0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5613383324312f15243f223f35373a1b372233243f373a2504101f1633337832393378313920">[email protected]</span></a>. Further instruction can be found
in the RFI document posted on EERE Exchange <a href="https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f">https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the RFI is to solicit
feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government
agencies, and other stakeholders on the 2026 Energy Critical Materials
Assessment. DOE is specifically interested in information on data and/
or other information that support energy technologies of interest,
materials of interest, supply chain information, market dynamics,
challenges to domestic industry, methodology, DOE critical materials
and DOI critical minerals lists, and other stakeholder issues related
to the Energy Critical Materials Assessment. This is solely a request
for information and not a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). DOE is
not accepting applications. The RFI is available at: <a href="https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f">https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f</a>.
Confidential Business Information: Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any
person submitting information that he or she believes to be
confidential and exempt by law from public disclosure should submit via
email, postal mail, or hand delivery two well-marked copies: one copy
of the document marked ``confidential'' 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. Submit these documents via email or on a CD, if feasible. DOE
will make its own determination about the confidential status of the
information and treat it according to its determination.
Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was
signed on May 16, 2025, by Louis Hrkman, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 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.
Signed in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2025.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2025-12054 Filed 6-27-25; 8:45 am]
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