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Nation’s goal of ensuring a future

supply of fossil fuel scientists and

engineers from a previously underutilized resource.

Eligibility. Eligibility for participation

in this Program Solicitation is restricted

to Historically Black Colleges and

Universities (HBCU) and Other Minority

Institutions (OMI) recognized by the

Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S.

Department of Education, and identified

on the OCR’s United States Department

of Education list of U.S. Accredited

Postsecondary Minority Institutions list

in effect on the closing date of the

program solicitation. Applications

submitted by any institution not on

OCR’s aforementioned list are ineligible

for technical evaluation and award. For

information regarding the qualification

criteria and process of becoming

recognized by the Education

Department’s Office for Civil Rights as

a ‘‘Minority Institution’’, institutions

should contact the Education

Department directly at the following

address: Mr. Peter A. McCabe, Office for

Civil Rights, U.S. Department of

Education, Washington DC 20202,

Telephone (202) 205–9567. Note: The

Education Department should only be

contacted on matters related to

Institutional status; questions regarding

the Program Solicitation should be

directed to Mr. Columbia at DOE by

telefacsimile on (412) 892–6216.

Applications from HBCU/OMIaffiliated research institutes must be

submitted through the college or

university with which they are

affiliated. The university (not the

university-affiliated research institute)

will be the recipient of any resultant

DOE grant award. Applications

submitted in response to the solicitation

must meet the following two criteria:

the Principal Investigator or a CoPrincipal Investigator must be a

teaching professor at the submitting

university listed in the application; and

at least one student registered at the

university is to be compensated for a

significant portion of the work

performed in the conduct of research

proposed in the application. Although it

is not required as an application

qualification criterion, collaboration

with the private sector is encouraged,

and applications proposing private

sector collaboration may be evaluated

more favorably. The solicitation will

contain a complete description of the

technical evaluation factors and relative

importance of each factor. Collaboration

by the private sector with the HBCU/

OMI may be in the form of cash cost

sharing, consultation, HBCU/OMI

access to industrial facilities or

equipment, experimental data and/or

equipment not available at the

university, or as a subgrantee/

subcontractor to the HBCU/OMI.

Areas of Interest. In order to develop

and sustain a national program of

HBCU/OMI research in advanced and

fundamental fossil fuel studies, the

Department is interested in innovative

research and development of advanced

concepts pertinent to fossil fuel

conversion and utilization limited to the

following seven (7) technical topics:

Topic 1—Advanced Environmental

Control Technology for Coal

Topic 2—Advanced Coal Utilization

Topic 3—Coal Liquefaction Technology

Topic 4—Heavy Oil Upgrading and

Processing

Topic 5—Advanced Environmental and

Recovery Technologies for Oil

Topic 6—Natural Gas Supply, Storage,

and Processing

Topic 7—Faculty/Student Exploratory

Grants

Note: This is the only topic (Topic seven

(7)) under this Program Solicitation wherein

the inclusion or exclusion of private sector

collaboration will not affect the technical

evaluation of the application.

Awards. DOE anticipates issuing

financial assistance (grants) for each

project selected. DOE reserves the right

to support or not support any or all

applications received in whole or in

part, and to determine how many

awards may be made through the

solicitation subject to funds available in

this fiscal year. The limitation on the

maximum DOE funding for each

selected grant to be awarded under this

Program Solicitation is as follows:

Maximum

award

Topics 1–6:

To 12 months grant duration $85,000.00

13—24 months grant duration ..................................... 150,000.00

25—36 months grant duration ..................................... 200,000.00

Topic 7:

To 12 months grant duration 15,000.00

Approximately $850,000 is planned

for this solicitation. The total should

provide support for four to eight R&D

application selections (Topics 1–6), and

approximately two to four

faculty/student exploratory application

selections (Topic 7).

Solicitation Release Date. The

Program Solicitation is expected to be

ready for release on or about November

7, 1997. Applications must be prepared

and submitted in accordance with the

instructions and forms contained in the

Program Solicitation. To be eligible,

applications must be Received by the

designated DOE office by the closing

time and date specified in the Program

Solicitation (anticipated to be on or

about December 19, 1997, at 5:00 pm

Eastern Standard Time).

Dale A. Siciliano,

Contracting Officer, Acquisition and

Assistance Division.

[FR Doc. 97–29004 Filed 10–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Fossil Energy

[FE Docket Nos. 97–47–NG; 95–36–NG; 97–

60–NG; 92–154–NG; 91–57–NG; 97–61–NG;

97–62–NG; 93–40–NG; 95–66–NG; 97–65–

NG; 97–66–NG]

Inland Pacific Resources Inc.

(Successor to Inland Pacific Energy

Services Corp.); Columbia Energy

Services Corporation Successor to

PennUnion Energy Services, L.L.C.);

Barrett Resources Corporation; Gas

Company of New Mexico; Duke Energy

LNG Sales, Inc.; (Formerly PanEnergy

LNG Sales, Inc.); Public Service

Company of New Mexico; Amoco

Energy Trading Corporation; El Paso

Energy Marketing Company (Formerly

El Paso Gas Marketing Company);

PG&E Texas Industrial Energy, L.P.

(Formerly Valero Industrial Gas, L.P.;

PG&E Texas Industrial Energy, L.P.;

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line

Company; Orders Granting,

Transferring and Vacating Blanket

Authorizations to Import and/or Export

Natural Gas

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of orders.

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy of

the Department of Energy gives notice

that it has issued Orders authorizing,

transferring and/or vacating various

imports and/or exports of natural gas.

These Orders are summarized in the

attached appendix.

These Orders are available for

inspection and copying in the Office of

Natural Gas & Petroleum Import and

Export Activities, Docket Room, 3F–056,

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence
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Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585,

(202) 586–9478. The Docket Room is

open between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except Federal holidays.

Issued in Washington, D.C., on October 27,

1997.

Wayne E. Peters,

Manager, Natural Gas Regulation Office of

Natural Gas & Petroleum Import and Export

Activities, Office of Fossil Energy.

APPENDIX.—BLANKET IMPORT/EXPORT AUTHORIZATIONS GRANTED

[DOE/FE Authority]

Order No. Date

Issued Importer/Exporter FE Docket No.

Two-year maximum

Comments Import

volume

Export

volume

1284–A ....... 09/08/97 Inland Pacific Resources Inc. (Successor to Inland Pacific Energy Services Corp.) 97–47–NG................ ............... Transfer of authority.

1055–A ....... 09/09/97 Columbia Energy Services Corporation (Successor to

PennUnion Energy Services, L.L.C.) 95–36–NG.

............... ............... Transfer of authority.

1298 ............ 09/15/97 Barrett Resources Corporation 97–60–NG ...................... 109.5 Bcf ............... Import from Canada.

930–A ......... 09/16/97 Gas Company of New Mexico 92–154–NG ..................... ............... ............... Vacate.

569–B ......... 09/15/97 Duke Energy LNG Sales, Inc. (Formerly PanEnergy

LNG Sales, Inc.) 91–57–NG.

............... ............... Name change.

1299 ............ 09/16/97 Public Service Company of New Mexico 97–61–NG ....... 300 Bcf 300 Bcf Import up to a combined total

from Canada and Mexico. Export up to a combined total to

Canada and Mexico.

1300 ............ 09/19/97 Amoco Energy Trading Corporation 97–62–NG .............. ............... 300 Bcf Export to Mexico.

801–A ......... 09/30/97 El Paso Energy Marketing Company (Formerly El Paso

Gas Marketing Company) 93–40–NG.

............... ............... Vacate.

1084–A ....... 09/30/97 PG&E Texas Industrial Energy, L.P. (Formerly Valero Industrial Gas, L.P.) 95–66–NG................ ............... Name change.

1301 ............ 09/30/97 PG&E Texas Industrial Energy, L.P. 97–65–NG ............. 300 Bcf Import and export up to a combined total from and to Mexico.

1302 ............ 09/30/97 Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company 97–66–NG ........ 5 Bcf 5 Bcf Export domestic gas to Canada

for reimport into the United

States.

[FR Doc. 97–29002 Filed 10–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Fossil Energy

[FE Docket Nos. 97–58–NG; 97–57–NG; 97–

55–NG; 96–67–NG; 97–56–NG; 97–59–NG]

MC2, Inc.; CMS Marketing, Services

and Trading Company; ONXY Gas

Marketing Company, L.C., Duke Energy

Trading and Marketing, L.L.C.

(Formerly PanEnergy Trading and

Marketing Services, L.L.C.), Conoco

Inc.; Valero Gas Marketing, L.P.;

Orders Granting, Transferring and

Vacating Blanket Authorizations To

Import and/or Export Natural Gas

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of Orders.

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy of

the Department of Energy gives notice

that it has issued Orders authorizing,

transferring and/or vacating various

imports and/or exports of natural gas.

These Orders are summarized in the

attached appendix.

These Orders are available for

inspection and copying in the Office of

Natural Gas & Petroleum Import and

Export Activities, Docket Room, 3F–056,

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence

Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585,

(202) 586–9478. The Docket Room is

open between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except Federal holidays.

Issued in Washington, D.C., on October 27,

1997.

Wayne E. Peters,

Manager, Natural Gas Regulation, Office of

Natural Gas & Petroleum Import and Export

Activities, Office of Fossil Energy.

Attachment.

APPENDIX.—BLANKET IMPORT/EXPORT AUTHORIZATIONS GRANTED

[DOE/FE Authority]

Order No. Date issued Importer/Exporter FE Docket No.

Two-year maximum

Comments Import

volume

Export

volume

1293 ............ 08/18/97 MC2, Inc. 97–58–NG ........................................................ 600 Bcf ............... Import from Canada.

1294 ............ 08/18/97 CMS Marketing, Services and Trading Company 97–57–

NG.

140 Bcf 140 Bcf Import/export from and to Canada.