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[FR Doc. 2024–20622 Filed 9–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Request for Information (RFI) 

on Frontiers in AI for Science, 

Security, and Technology (FASST) 

Initiative 

AGENCY: Office of Critical and Emerging 

Technologies, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Request for information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy’s 

Office of Critical and Emerging 

Technologies (CET) seeks public 

comment to inform how DOE and its 17 

national laboratories can leverage 

existing assets to provide a national AI 

capability for the public interest. 

DATES: Responses to the RFI are 

requested by November 11, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments electronically to 

FASST@hq.doe.gov and include 

‘‘FASST RFI’’ in the subject line of the 

email. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Further questions may be addressed to 

Charles Yang through FASST@

hq.doe.gov or (202) 586–6116. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

This is an RFI issued by the U.S. 

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of 

Critical and Emerging Technologies 

(CET). This RFI seeks public input to 

inform our ongoing work and DOE’s 

proposed Frontiers in AI for Science, 

Security, and Technology (FASST) 

initiative,1 which seeks to build the 

world’s most powerful, integrated 

scientific AI models for scientific 

discovery, applied energy deployment, 

and national security applications. 

DOE seeks input from: 

• Academic institutions interested in 

partnering with DOE to leverage AI 

for scientific research 

• For-profit and non-profit AI 

developers and research labs 

• Data center and compute 

infrastructure providers 

• Startups and investors 

• Small businesses involved in the 

development or provision of AI 

technologies and services 

• Civil society organizations potentially 

impacted by AI 

• Labor training and technical 

workforce development organizations 

• Think tanks and research 

organizations 

• And other interested entities 

II. Purpose 

FASST is DOE’s proposed initiative to 

build the world’s most powerful, 

integrated scientific AI systems. This 

initiative leverages DOE’s demonstrated 

history of capability building for the 

U.S. government, as well as key 

enabling infrastructure already housed 

at the DOE’s Office of Science and 

Applied Energy facilities, and facilities 

operated by National Nuclear Security 

Administration (NNSA), including: 

• Data: DOE is the leading generator 

of classified and unclassified scientific 

data through the world’s largest 

collection of advanced experimental 

facilities, including particle 

accelerators, powerful light sources, 

specialized facilities for genomics and 

nanoscience, and neutron scattering 

sources. 

• Computing Infrastructure: For 

decades, DOE has built and operated the 

world’s fastest, most powerful, and 

highly energy efficient supercomputers. 

These supercomputers are strategic 

components of the nation’s defensive 

capabilities, drive innovation through 

open access to the scientific community, 

and are the basis upon which to build 

safe and trustworthy AI capability for 

the nation. 

• Workforce: DOE and its national 

labs host over 40,000 physicists, 

chemists, biologists, materials scientists, 

and computer scientists, who tackle 

some of the most urgent challenges in 

the national interest. 

• Partnerships: DOE has unparalleled 

experience in mission-driven publicprivate collaborations. Through the 

Exascale Computing Project, DOE 

worked with industry partners to codesign and develop critical components 

of the computer chips that power 

today’s leading AI models and partnered 

with leading academic institutions to 

develop scalable high-performance 

software libraries. 

This RFI seeks public input to inform 

how DOE can partner with outside 

institutions and leverage its assets to 

implement and develop the roadmap for 

FASST, based on the four pillars of 

FASST: AI-ready data; Frontier-Scale AI 

Computing Infrastructure and Platforms; 

Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI 

Models and Systems; and AI 

Applications; as well as considerations 

for workforce and FASST governance. 


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Accessing-ASCR-Facilities. 

4www.energy.gov/cet/supercharging-americas-aiworkforce. 

III. Questions 

1. Data 

(a) What kinds of data governance 

practices, risks, and opportunities 

should DOE take into consideration, 

particularly for open sourcing scientific 

corpuses to the community or interested 

parties? 

(b) What types of scientific and energy 

data should DOE prioritize for largescale tokenization? 

(c) Are there partner organizations 

with relevant scientific or energy-related 

data that DOE should work with? 

(d) What are additional data-related 

tools and technologies DOE should 

invest in to promote AI-ready data and 

fuel continued US leadership in AI? 

2. Compute 

(a) How can DOE ensure FASST 

investments support a competitive 

hardware ecosystem and maintain 

American leadership in AI compute, 

including through DOE’s existing AI 

and high-performance-computing 

testbeds? 2

(b) How can DOE improve awareness 

of existing allocation processes for 

DOE’s AI-capable supercomputers and 

AI testbeds for smaller companies and 

newer research teams? 3 How should 

DOE evaluate compute resource 

allocation strategies for large-scale 

foundation-model training and/or other 

AI use cases? 

(c) How can DOE continue to support 

development of energy-efficient AI 

hardware, algorithms, and platforms? 

(d) How can DOE continue to support 

the development of AI hardware, 

algorithms, and platforms tailored for 

science and engineering applications in 

cases where the needs of those 

applications differ from the needs of 

commodity AI applications? How can 

DOE partner with other compute 

capability providers, including both onpremises and cloud solution providers, 

to support various hardware 

technologies and provide a portfolio of 

compute capabilities for its mission 

areas? 

3. Models 

(a) How should DOE consider the 

benefits of open sourcing of scientific 

and applied energy AI models for the 

scientific community while fully 

addressing research security and other 

national-security concerns? 

(b) How can DOE support investment 

and innovation in energy efficient AI 

model architectures and deployment, 

including potentially through prizebased competitions? 

(c) What considerations should 

inform DOE’s ongoing AI red-teaming 

and safety tests, particularly for 

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and 

Nuclear (CBRN) risks? 

4. Applications 

(a) What are application areas in 

science, applied energy, and national 

security that are primed for AI 

breakthroughs? 

(b) How can DOE ensure foundation 

AI models are effectively developed to 

realize breakthrough applications, in 

partnership with industry, academia, 

and other agencies? 

5. Workforce 

(a) DOE has an inventory of AI 

workforce training programs underway 

through our national labs.4 What other 

partnerships or convenings could DOE 

host or develop to support an AI ready 

scientific workforce in the United 

States? 

6. Governance 

(a) How can DOE effectively engage 

and partner with industry and civil 

society? What are convenings, 

organizational structures, and 

engagement mechanisms that DOE 

should consider for FASST? 

(b) What role should public-private 

partnerships play in FASST? What 

problems or topics should be the focus 

of these partnerships? 

IV. Response Guidelines 

Commenters are welcome to comment 

on any question. RFI responses shall 

include: 

1. RFI title; 

2. Name(s), phone number(s), and 

email address(es) for the principal 

point(s) of contact; 

3. Institution or organization 

affiliation and postal address; and 

4. Clear indication of the specific 

question(s) to which you are 

responding. 

Responses to this RFI must be 

submitted electronically to FASST@

hq.doe.gov with the subject line 

‘‘FASST RFI’’ no later than 5:00 p.m. 

(ET) on November 11, 2024. Responses 

must be provided as attachments to an 

email. It is recommended that 

attachments with file sizes exceeding 25 

MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) to 

ensure message delivery. Responses 

must be provided as a Microsoft Word 

(*.docx) or Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) 

attachment to the email and should be 

no more than 15 pages in length, 12- 

point font, 1-inch margins. Only 

electronic responses will be accepted. 

Only one response per individual or 

organization will be accepted. 

A response to this RFI will not be 

viewed as a binding commitment to 

develop or pursue the project or ideas 

discussed. DOE may engage in postresponse conversations with interested 

parties. 

Confidential Business Information 

Because information received in 

response to this RFI may be used to 

structure future programs and/or 

otherwise be made available to the 

public, respondents are strongly advised 

NOT to include any information in their 

responses that might be considered 

business sensitive, proprietary, or 

otherwise confidential. 

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 two wellmarked 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. Failure to comply 

with these marking requirements may 

result in the disclosure of the unmarked 

information under the Freedom of 

Information Act or otherwise. The U.S. 

Government is not liable for the 

disclosure or use of unmarked 

information and may use or disclose 

such information for any purpose. If 

your response contains confidential, 

proprietary, or privileged information, 

you must include a cover sheet marked 

as follows identifying the specific pages 

containing confidential, proprietary, or 

privileged information: 

Notice of Restriction on Disclosure and 

Use of Data 

Pages [list applicable pages] of this 

response may contain confidential, 

proprietary, or privileged information 

that is exempt from public disclosure. 

Such information shall be used or 

disclosed only for the purposes 

described in this RFI. The Government 

may use or disclose any information 

that is not appropriately marked or 

otherwise restricted, regardless of 

source. 

In addition, (1) the header and footer 

of every page that contains confidential, 

proprietary, or privileged information 

must be marked as follows: ‘‘Contains, 

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privileged, or trade secret information 

must be clearly marked with [[double 

brackets]] or highlighting. Submissions 

containing CBI should be sent to: 

FASST@hq.doe.gov. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on September 6, 

2024, by Helena Fu, Director, Office of 

Critical and Emerging Technologies, 

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 September 

9, 2024. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20676 Filed 9–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14787–004] 

Black Canyon Hydro, LLC; Notice of 

Application Accepted for Filing, 

Scoping Meetings, and Environmental 

Site Review; Soliciting Motions To 

Intervene and Protests; and Soliciting 

Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original major 

license. 

b. Project No.: 14787–004. 

c. Date Filed: January 18, 2023. 

d. Applicant: rPlus Hydro, LLLP, on 

behalf of Black Canyon Hydro, LLC 

(BCH). 

e. Name of Project: Seminoe Pumped 

Storage Project (Seminoe Project or 

project). 

f. Location: The proposed project 

would be located at the U.S. Bureau of 

Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Seminoe 

Reservoir on the North Platte River in 

Carbon County, Wyoming, 

approximately 35 miles northeast of 

Rawlins, Wyoming. The project would 

occupy 1,025.94 acres of land managed 

by the Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) and 77.00 acres managed by 

Reclamation. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Lars Dorr, 

Program Manager for rPlus Hydro, 

LLLP. Address: Black Canyon Hydro, 

LLC c/o rPlus Hydro, LLLP 201 S. Main 

St. Suite 2100 Salt Lake City, Utah 

84111. Phone: (858) 925–3743. Email: 

ldorr@rplusenergies.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Michael Tust at (202) 

502–6522; or email at michael.tust@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments and motions to intervene and 

protests: November 5, 2024. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments and motions to intervene and 

protests using the Commission’s eFiling 

system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

FERCOnline.aspx. Commenters can 

submit brief comments up to 6,000 

characters, without prior registration, 

using the eComment system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/Quick

Comment.aspx. For assistance, please 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you 

may submit a paper copy. Submissions 

sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 

Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. All 

filings must clearly identify the project 

name and docket number on the first 

page: Seminoe Pumped Storage Project 

(P–14787–004). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all intervenors 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person on the official service list 

for the project. Further, if an intervener 

files comments or documents with the 

Commission relating to the merits of an 

issue that may affect the responsibilities 

of a particular resource agency, they 

must also serve a copy of the document 

on that resource agency. 

k. This application has been accepted 

for filing, but is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. Project Description: The Seminoe 

Project would utilize Reclamation’s 

existing 1,017,280 acre-feet Seminoe 

reservoir on the North Platte River as 

the lower reservoir and would include 

the following new facilities: (1) a 8,498- 

foot-long circumference, 20-foot wide, 

65 to 180-foot-high, roller-compacted 

concrete dam impounding a 10,800- 

acre-foot upper reservoir at a crest 

elevation of 7,445 feet; (2) the dam 

would have a 200-foot-long concrete, 

ungated, ogee crest emergency spillway 

with a crest elevation of 7,446 feet; (3) 

a 75-foot-diameter, covered bell-mouth 

intake set near the southwestern edge of 

the upper reservoir at elevation of 7,295 

feet; (4) an approximately 680-foot-long, 

32-foot-diameter concrete linedheadrace tunnel connecting to a 615- 

foot-long, 24-foot-diameter aboveground 

steel conduit which would extend 

underground for an additional 2,470 feet 

before discharging to a 30-foot-diameter 

vertical, concrete-lined shaft; (5) the 

vertical shaft then connects to a 165- 

foot-long, 17-foot-diameter concrete, 

steel-lined penstock and then to the 

pump-turbines; (6) three pump-turbines 

each rated at 324 megawatts (MW) for a 

combined total generating capacity of 

972 MW located in the underground 

powerhouse (machine hall); (7) an 

approximately 4,350 foot-long, concrete 

tailrace channel discharging water to a 

lower intake structure within the 

existing Seminoe Reservoir at normal 

maximum water surface elevation of 

6,357 feet; (8) a transformer cavern 

containing 18 kilovolt (kV) generator 

step-up transformers for each unit, and 

a gas-insulated switchgear switchyard; 

(9) power would be transmitted from the 

transformer gallery via 765-foot-long 

horizontal tunnel to a vertical cable 

shaft up to a take-off structure at the 

surface, and then via two separate, 500 

kV, overhead primary transmission lines 

extending to the 500 kV interconnection 

at Aeolus Substation, approximately 30 

miles to the southeast of Seminoe 

Reservoir; (10) an approximately 32- 

foot-diameter main access tunnel would 

provide access to the machine hall; (11) 

a 15-foot-wide, 16-foot-high surge 

chamber access tunnel lined with 

shotcrete; (12) an approximately 2.6- 

mile-long access road around the 

reservoir; (13) a 40-foot-wide road to the 

main access tunnel portal, including a 

new bridge over the tailrace of Seminoe 

Dam; and (14) appurtenant facilities. In 

addition, portions of Western Area 

Power Administration’s Miracle MileSnowy Range 1 115 kV and Miracle 

Mile-Snowy Range 2 230 kV 

transmission lines would be relocated 

around the upper reservoir. 

Additionally, the existing Bennett 

Mountain Road (also called Dry Lake 

Road) for accessing the proposed upper 

reservoir site and a section of an 


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