BIL - Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) Studies for Production of Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM) from Coal-Based Resources

The Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement. Awards made under this Announcement will be funded in whole with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will invest appropriations of $32 million for Front-End Engineering and Design studies for two different sizes, intermediate-scale and demonstration-scale, of Rare Earth Element Facilities that demonstrate the extraction, separation, and refining from coal and coal by-products to high purity individual or binary rare earth metals and/or critical minerals and materials. Instructions for this FOA can be found at Grants.gov and FedConnect.