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Approved Categorical Exclusions

Date	Title	Recipient Name	Location	DOE NETL Sponsor
2024-11-26	Low Emissions Combustor Test and Research Facility (LECTR) (171.44 KB)	NETL	Morgantown, WV	FE/RIC/ECE/Thermal Sciences Team
2024-12-05	Kentucky's Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants for Small and Medium Sized Kentucky Manufacturers (SMMs) (594.89 KB)	Prime: Commonwealth of Kentucky Subs: None	Frankfort, IN	MESC
2024-12-16	Preventing Wildfire Ignition from Powerline Equipment Failures Using ML-Based Classification of Real-Time Electrical Measurement (382.64 KB)	Prime: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Subs: Pacific Gas and Electric Company	Multiple States, Multiple Sites	CESER/TDC/EDS/Research & Development
2025-01-14	Advancing Efficient Flue Gas CO2 Capture and Conversion (EC3) for Extremophile Algae to Produce Cattle Feed and Biodegradable Mu (356.28 KB)	Prime: Washington State University Subs: PNNL, Integrated Lipid Biofuels, LLC, Kentucky State University,	Multiple Sites, Multiple States	FECM/TDC/CM/CO2 Conversion
2025-01-17	APPA Safe Haven: Cybersecurity and Mutual Aid Exercise (354.9 KB)	Prime: APPA Subs: IEM International, Inc.	Multiple Sites, Multiple States	CESER/TDC/EDS/Infrastructure Response & SLTT
2025-04-18	Morgantown Monongahela River Trash Removal Initiative (450.19 KB)	Prime: City of Morgantown, WV; Subs: Caperton Rail Trail at Morgantown Lock and Dam	Morgantown, WV	EERE/FAC/FA/Team B
2025-05-09	Vessel Charging Infrastructure for Hybrid Passenger Cruise (448.33 KB)	Prime: South Coast AQMD Subs: Harbor Breeze Cruises NA	San Pedro, CA	EERE/TDC/EEM/Vehicle Electrification
2025-06-02	POWER Up Preventing Outages while Enhancing the Resilience of the Grid (383.9 KB)	Prime: North Carolina SEO; Subs: Duke Energy Carolinas	Multiple Sites, NC	GDO/TDC/EDS/Infrastructure Response & SLTT
2025-05-09	Paradise Kentucky Basin Storage Complex Feasibility (491.33 KB)	Prime: Battelle Memorial Institute Subs: Anoka Geophysical LLC	Multiple Sites, Multiple States	FECM/TDC/CM/Large-Scale Storage
2025-06-27	L703 Feeder Reconductor - APP-1034 (379.75 KB)	Prime: Florida Division of Emergency Management; Subs: City of Leesburg Electric Department	Multiple Sites, FL	GDO/TDC/EDS/Infrastructure Response & SLTT
2025-07-17	Redox Geochemistry Laboratory (357.01 KB)	NETL - Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	FECM/RIC/GES/Geochemistry Team
2023-01-10	Development of an Electric Vehicles Associate's Degree Curriculum Standards and Educational Materials for Automotive Educators a (197.25 KB)	West Virginia University Research Corporation	Morgantown, WV	EERE
2024-01-03	Sutter Co. CO2 Capture and Storage Project, Northern California (151.75 KB)	Prime: Gas Technology Insititute Subs: OXY LCV	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM
2025-08-21	McCoy Creek & Calamity Overhead to Underground Power line Conversion (McCoy-Hoffman) (171.71 KB)	Prime: Idaho Office of Energy and Mineral Resources (OMER) Sub: Lower Valley Energy	Multiple sites, ID	GDO
2025-09-02	Pioneer Substation Upgrade (376.51 KB)	Prime: Washington State Department of Commerce; Subs: Mason County PUD #3	Multiple Sites, WA	GDO
2025-09-09	Electric Grid Resilience & Stabilization (411.79 KB)	Prime: Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Subs: LUMA & Genera, Puerto Rico	LUMA & Genera, Puerto Rico	GDO
2025-09-24	Pride South Right-of-Way Maintenance (412.44 KB)	Prime: State of Louisiana Department of Natural Resources; Sub: Dixie Electric Membership Corporation	Pride, LA	GDO
2025-09-30	Reno Sparks Thermal Storage Project (383.22 KB)	Reno-Sparks Indian Colony	Washoe County, NV	GDO
2025-10-28	SCADA System Design & Installation and System Control Upgrade Project (382.4 KB)	Prime: Texas Division of Emergency Management; Sub: City of Burnet, TX	Burnet, TX	GDO
2025-11-07	Strengthening Tri-County’s Resiliency for Next-Gen Grid (STRONG) (385.91 KB)	Prime: Illinois Finance Authority; Sub: Tri-County Electric Cooperative	Multiple Counties, IL	GDO
2025-12-05	Resiliency Vegetation Management (377.13 KB)	Prime: Texas Division of Emergency Management; Sub: AEP Texas Headquarters	Multiple counties, TX	GDO
2025-11-18	City of Tipton Grid Resiliency Project (363.21 KB)	Prime: Iowa Economic Development Authority; Sub: City of Tipton, IA	Tipton, IA	GDO
2025-12-12	Substation Capacity and Resilience Upgrade (410.56 KB)	Prime: Nevada Governor's Office of Energy; Sub: Nevada Rural Electric Association/Lincoln County Power	Caselton, NV	GDO
2026-01-13	Wildfire Assessment and Resilience for Networks (WARN) - Bridger Valley Electric Association (359.18 KB)	Prime: Holy Cross Energy Sub: Bridger Valley Electric Association	Uinta, Sweetwater, Dagett, and Summitt Counties, UT	GDO
2025-12-19	Smart Hybrid transformer for Abnormal Power Events (SHAPE) (381.94 KB)	Prime: Clemson University; Sub: Teco-Westinghouse	Multiple sites, Multiple states	OE
2026-01-08	Reliable Electric Lines: Infrastructure Expansion Framework (RELIEF) - Phase 2 (401.19 KB)	Prime: Utah Office of Energy Development; Subs: Garkane, PacifiCorp	Multiple Sites, Multiple States	GDO
2026-02-05	Grid Resiliency Upgrades: Line Conversions and Microgrids (453.56 KB)	Electric Power Board of Chattanooga	Chattanooga, TN	OE
2026-02-18	Driving Domestic Rare Earth Mining Through Value-Added Advanced Alloys (400.98 KB)	Prime: Loukus Technologies, Inc.; Subs: Ames National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Calumet, MI	FE
2026-03-03	FIREWISE (Fire Informed Resilience Enhancements With Intelligent Satellite Evaluation) - 5G7 Green Horn (395.28 KB)	Prime: California Energy Commission Sub: PacifiCorp	Siskiyou County, CA	OE
2026-03-11	Panola-Harrison Electric Cooperative Grid Resilience Project (424.07 KB)	Prime: Texas Division of Emergency Management Sub: Panola-Harrison Electric Cooperative	Multiple sites, Multiple states	GDO
2026-03-26	Smart Technology for Advanced Resilient Transmission (START) (384.75 KB)	Prime: Georgia Transmission Corporation; Sub: Northern Rio Arriba Electric Cooperative	Rio Arriba County, NM	GDO
2026-04-07	Aging Infrastructure Replacement - Underground Cable and Open Wire Secondary (388.81 KB)	Prime: Michigan EGLE Sub: Coldwater Board of Public Utilities	Coldwater, MI	OE
2026-04-20	Clallam County Grid Hardening Project Phase 2 (392.97 KB)	Prime: Washington State Department of Commerce; Sub: PUD No. I of Clallam County (Clallam PUD)	Clallam County, WA	OE
2026-04-28	Kyger Creek Station_CX_signed.pdf (395.79 KB)	Prime: Ohio Valley Electric Corporation; Sub: Kyger Creek Station	Cheshire, OH	OE
2023-01-12	Cultivation-Ready Improved Algae Strains (CRIAS) for Increased Carbon Utilization Efficiency (200.08 KB)	Prime: MicroBio Engineering Subs: New Mexico State University, California Polytechnic State University, Heliae Development, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM/TDC/CM/CO2 Removal & Conversion Team
2023-01-31	Direct Air Capture (178.26 KB)	National Energy Technology Laboratory	Pittsburgh, PA	FECM/RIC/ECE/Reaction Engineering Team
2023-02-28	Resource Assessment of Industrial Wastes for CO2 Mineralization (149.3 KB)	Prime: Univerisity of North Dakota Subs: Evergex	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM/TDC/CM/Carbon Transport & Storage
2023-03-09	Algal Biorefinery Conversion of Utility CO2 to High-Value Products (ABC-UC) (228.54 KB)	Prime: Colorado State University; Subs: University of Wyoming, Living Ink Technologies, Wyoming Integrated Test Facility	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM/TDC/CM/CO2 Removal & Conversion Team
2023-03-24	CO2 Mineralization for Coproduction of Value-Added Carbonate and Fertilizers (174.3 KB)	University of Illinois	Champaign, IL	FECM/TDC/CM/CO2 Removal & Conversion Team
2023-04-09	Mid-Atlantic Electrification Partnership: An Electrification Ecosystem of Intermodal Leadership and Intercity Travel (216.84 KB)	Prime: VA Dept of Energy; Subs: University of Mary Washington	Fredericksburg, VA	FECM/TDC/EEM/Technology Integration/EEMS
2023-04-19	Integrated Bench-Scale Testing of a Structured Sorbent for Direct Air Capture (158.18 KB)	Susteon Inc.	Cary, NC	FECM/TDC/CM/Removal and Conversion
2023-05-10	The Oxiperator for Methane Slip from Lean Burn Gas Engines and Much More (178.72 KB)	Prime: Prabhu Energy Labs Subs: Carnegie Mellon Univ, Colorado State Univ, Univ of California Davis, Imperial Machine & Tool, America Bureau of Shipping, Prabhu Energy Lab	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM/TDC/Resource Sustainability/Advanced Remediation and Methane Mitigation Technologies
2023-05-19	Polar Bear SM – Innovative Capture of Storage Tank Vapors (187.16 KB)	UNDEERC	Grand Forks, ND	FECM/TDC/Resource Sustainability/Advanced Remediation and Methane Mitigation Technologies
2023-06-07	Comprehensive Top-down and Bottom-up Estimation of Annual Basin-wide Methane Emissions from the San Joaquin Valley... (195.38 KB)	Prime: Sonoma Technologies Sub: FluxSense Inc, University of California Riverside, University of Colorado Boulder, GHG Sat Inc .	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM/TDC/Resource Sustainability/Advanced Remediation and Methane Mitigation Technologies
2023-06-22	Simulated Based Engineering User Center (SBEUC) (233.29 KB)	National Energy Technology Laboratory	Morgantown, WV	FECM/RIC/CSE/Advanced Computing & AI Team
2023-06-22	Ruggedized Mobile Fast Charger for Off-Road Vehicles (207.14 KB)	Prime: Deere & Company Subs: Multiple	Multiple sites, multiple states	EE/TDC/EEM/Vehicle Electrification
2023-07-06	Emergency Shower and Eyewash Upgrades (186.03 KB)	National Energy Technology Laboratory	Pittsburgh, PA	LOC/FO/Facility Planning & Engineering
2023-07-14	Concurrent Learning Cyber-Physical Framework for Resilient Electric Power System (CyberPREPS) (169.15 KB)	Prime: Florida State University; Subs: GE Global Research Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nhu Energy; Prime: Florida State University; Subs: GE Global Research Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nhu Energy	Multiple sites, Multiple states	FECM/TDC/EDS/Research & Development
2023-07-20	Medium Duty Off-Road DME Engine Achieving High Efficiency and Ultra Low Emissions (208.96 KB)	Prime: University of Michigan Subs: Sandia National Laboratory, Stanadyne LLCPrime: University of Michigan Subs: Sandia National Laboratory, Stanadyne LLC	Multiple sites, Multiple states	EE/TDC/EEM/Advanced Combustion and Materials
2023-08-03	Optimization and Scale-up of Molecular-Sieve Membranes with Record Air Separation Performance (137.84 KB)	Prime: Osmoses, Inc Subs: Gas Technology Institute	Cambridge, MA Des Plaines, IL	FECM/TDC/CM/Hydrogen with Carbon Management