Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002575
The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Idaho Field Office, released a discretionary funding opportunity titled "Consent-Based Siting for Interim Storage Program -- Community Engagement Opportunities" (Funding Opportunity Number DE FOA 0002575; CFDA 81.121). The program is centered on helping communities across the continental United States better understand and participate in discussions about consent-based siting, the management of commercial spent nuclear fuel, and the considerations involved in potentially hosting an interim storage facility. Rather than presuming a community will or should accept such a facility, the emphasis is on informed, locally grounded engagement where residents and stakeholders can learn, ask questions, surface concerns, and communicate feedback in an organized way.
The funding is offered through cooperative agreements, which typically means DOE expects an active partnership role during the project (as opposed to a hands-off grant). DOE planned to select multiple awardees that are geographically diverse, with an expected total of about eight awards. Individual awards could be as large as $2,000,000, indicating DOE is seeking efforts substantial enough to support sustained engagement, outreach, and administrative coordination rather than one-off events.
At its core, the opportunity is designed to resource community-driven processes that explore what it would mean if one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities for commercial spent nuclear fuel were to play a role in or near a community. Awardees are expected to foster, encourage, and support innovative community ideas and meaningful feedback. This includes creating settings where community members can engage with technical, policy, and safety information in plain language, compare perspectives, and develop locally relevant questions or priorities that should inform federal decision-making.
DOE frames the work around three broad functions. First, awardees should advance mutual learning with real public participation, meaning engagement is intended to be two-way: communities learn about interim storage and spent fuel issues, and DOE and other decision-makers receive structured community input. Second, awardees should improve ease of access to information-sharing, which may include making materials easier to find and understand, supporting translation or accessibility needs, and using outreach channels that reach beyond the usual participants. Third, awardees are expected to serve as facilitators and award administrators in ways that reduce barriers to meaningful participation, which points to practical support such as convening meetings, managing sub-awards or stipends, coordinating experts, and designing inclusive participation formats so that involvement is not limited only to those with time, money, or technical background.
Eligibility is broad and includes county governments, cities or townships, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations (including those other than small businesses), and small businesses. This wide eligibility suggests DOE is open to a range of capable local or regional entities that can organize community engagement efforts, including partnerships that combine local government convening power with university expertise or specialized facilitation and outreach capacity.
The opportunity was created on September 20, 2022, with an original closing date of December 19, 2022. While those dates reflect the specific application window for this solicitation, the description makes clear the underlying goal: to support communities in building the knowledge, engagement infrastructure, and practical tools needed to participate in consent-based siting discussions related to consolidated interim storage of commercial spent nuclear fuel, and to do so in a way that lowers participation barriers and strengthens the quality of community input.Apply for DE FOA 0002575
- The Department of Energy, Idaho Field Office in the energy, environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Consent-Based Siting for Interim Storage Program -- Community Engagement Opportunities" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.121.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 20, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 19, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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