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1United States Department of Energy. (2022). 

Strategic Vision: The Role of Fossil Energy and 

Carbon Management in Achieving Net-Zero 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. www.energy.gov/fecm/ 

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2United States Department of Energy Office of 

Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. (2023). 

Roadmap for CO2 Transport Fundamental Research 

Workshop. www.netl.doe.gov/23TFRW-proceedings. 

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December 17, 2024, by Alyssa Petit, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer, 

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U.S. Department of Energy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Intent Regarding Launching 

a Carbon Transport Research, 

Development and Demonstration 

Consortium 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy and 

Carbon Management, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of intent (NOI). 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

and Carbon Management (FECM), 

Department of Energy (DOE), is issuing 

this NOI to notify interested parties of 

its intent to launch a ‘‘Carbon Transport 

Research, Development and 

Demonstration (RD&D) Consortium (the 

Consortium)’’ to identify and coordinate 

carbon transport RD&D efforts (e.g., 

pipeline, rail, truck, ship, and barge 

transportation); facilitate 

communication among stakeholders; 

and compile and curate information in 

an open access platform. The DOE 

initially sought input from stakeholders 

through a Request for Information DE– 

FOA–0003330 (RFI 3330) 

(www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/ 

default.aspx?ReturnUrl=

%2ffedconnect%2f%3fdoc%3dDEFOA-0003330%26

agency%3dDOE&doc=DE-FOA0003330&agency=DOE) issued on 

September 18, 2024. Through this NOI, 

the DOE is establishing a second 

opportunity to obtain information that 

could be used to inform DOE’s decisions 

on the initiation of the Consortium and 

to gauge interest in participating in the 

Consortium. FECM intends to launch 

the Consortium after reviewing 

responses to RFI 3330 and this NOI. 

Parties that express interest in joining 

the Consortium, either through this NOI 

or through RFI 3330, will be contacted 

via email with instructions on how to 

officially register to join. 

DATES: Written comments, and 

information are requested by January 21, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments electronically to 

FOA3330@netl.doe.gov and include 

‘‘DOE Carbon Transport Consortium’’ in 

the subject line of the email. Only 

electronic responses will be accepted. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions may be addressed to Robert 

Smith, at 202–597–4058 or 

robert.smith8@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Drivers for a Carbon Transport RD&D 

Consortium 

In line with the goal of broad 

stakeholder engagement and its 2022 

Strategic Vision,1 DOE FECM hosted the 

Workshop for Applied Research in 

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Transport 2 in 

Dublin, Ohio, from February 21–22, 

2023 (the Workshop). Approximately 

100 individuals from Federal agencies, 

industry, academia, nongovernmental 

organizations, national laboratories, and 

other stakeholder groups participated in 

the Workshop to share individual 

perspectives and provide input about 

the following objectives: 

• Identify near-term challenges and 

RD&D areas of interest; 

• Identify lab- and pilot-scale 

research activities of interest; 

• Identify potential participants in 

ongoing and future RD&D efforts; and 

• Identify whether a carbon transport 

research consortium would advance 

carbon capture, utilization, and storage 

deployment, and could address 

potential barriers to future success. 

The key result of the Workshop was 

the identification of four broad topics of 

interest (TOIs) for fundamental and 

applied RD&D in CO2 transport: 

(a) Impact of CO2 impurities on asset 

integrity; 

(b) CO2-specific leak detection and 

emergency response protocols; 

(c) Repurposing of existing 

infrastructure for CO2 service; and 

(d) Developing and connecting with 

other modes of CO2 transport/ 

intermodal hubs. 

The Workshop participants also 

encouraged FECM to consider 

developing a carbon transport RD&D 

consortium (‘‘the Consortium’’) to 

facilitate information sharing that could 

result in coordinated RD&D efforts on 

the TOIs among stakeholders. 

II. Consortium Participants 

The Consortium is intended to consist 

of a group of domestic (U.S.) based or 

incorporated individuals or 

organizations that are working together 

to achieve a common objective. It would 

be structured around committees that 

would share information about relevant 

ongoing RD&D activities, conduct gap 

analyses, and promote synergies which 

could lead to research project formation 


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and facilitate the performance of peer 

reviews of projects. 

The Consortium is intended to 

comprise a range of U.S. based or 

incorporated individuals or 

organizations including but not limited 

to: 

• Federal agencies 

• Tribal governments or sovereign 

nations 

• State agencies 

• National laboratories 

• Academia 

• Non-government organizations 

• National standards organizations 

• Industry owners and facility operators 

• Service providers and equipment 

vendors 

• Trade associations 

• Manufacturing entities (e.g., pipe 

fabricators) 

• Labor unions 

III. Benefits to Joining 

The following benefits could be 

realized through the Consortium. 

1. Information Sharing and 

Collaboration 

The Consortium would facilitate the 

sharing of information across 

organizations. This would support 

awareness and save time as new 

knowledge, and technologies are 

developed. 

2. Increased Lab Visibility 

The Consortium would provide an 

opportunity for various laboratories to 

increase awareness surrounding their 

specific expertise, capabilities, and 

applicable ongoing work in support of 

developing future collaborative 

opportunities surrounding areas of 

interest relevant to CO2 transportation. 

3. Improve Chances To Achieve Goals 

The Consortium would bring together 

professionals working towards mutual 

goals resulting in better collaboration 

and cooperation among members. 

Diverse opinions and individual 

perspectives for solutions would be 

encouraged, which would ensure that 

topics of interest are addressed 

appropriately. 

4. Growing Network of Knowledge 

The Consortium would grow a 

network of quality connections and 

knowledge by providing increased 

access to expertise, organization, peer 

reviewed knowledge and data, and 

single mode and multimodal transport 

companies. 

The Consortium would create 

opportunities for attracting new 

members over time, bringing expertise 

to fill identified RD&D gaps. 

IV. Consortium Structure 

Three standing committees are 

envisioned. FECM would be the 

Consortium manager and co-chair for 

some of the Consortium committees. 

FECM would lead and execute the 

Consortium with technical coordination 

and logistical/administrative support 

from the National Energy Technology 

Laboratory (NETL). It is anticipated that 

the Consortium would have one inperson annual meeting with committee 

meetings that would meet periodically 

(primarily virtually). 

Federal RD&D Steering Committee— 

This committee would consist of 

representatives from DOE, and other 

U.S. Government agencies including 

government-owned and governmentoperated labs. The Federal RD&D 

Steering Committee would be chaired 

by FECM and would advise FECM on 

suggested research activities for future 

funding actions. 

Committee for Federally-Funded 

Research and Development Centers— 

This committee would consist of 

representatives from government-owned 

but contractor-operated labs of the 

Department of Energy (generally 

referred to as ‘‘National Labs’’). This 

committee would update the Federal 

RD&D Steering Committee on the 

progress of the related funded efforts at 

the National Labs. 

Committee for Non-Governmental 

Organizations, Industry, and Other 

Subject Matter Experts—This committee 

is comprised of representatives from 

non-government organizations, private 

sector corporations, or individuals 

independent from the U.S. Government 

but based or incorporated in the U.S. 

Committee members must be a U.S. 

citizen. This committee would share 

facts or information with the 

Consortium about ongoing or planned 

research, and the Consortium would 

collate this information with its 

activities. This committee would not 

provide advice or recommendations to 

the Consortium or to any of the other 

committees. 

V. Membership Requirements 

These requirements can be found on 

the following web page and will be 

utilized by FECM to review interested 

individuals or organizations who wish 

to join. 

Please visit: https://edx.netl.doe.gov/ 

sites/transportconsortium. 

VI. Consortium Web Page 

The envisioned Consortium web page 

will further describe the Consortium’s 

mission, activities, and schedule of 

events; elicit membership; post public 

domain information; and may provide 

an on-line forum for information 

sharing. All respondents to this RFI will 

be notified when the Consortium web 

page becomes active. 

VII. Questions for Request for 

Information 

Through this NOI and RFI 3330, 

FECM seeks input from organizations 

that may be involved in CO2 transport 

RD&D and interested in becoming a 

member of this Consortium. The 

following questions are provided to 

guide responses. You may answer as 

few or as many of the questions as you 

would like. Please use the numbers as 

headings in your response to the 

greatest extent possible and refer to the 

questions in the body of your response. 

This helps save time for both the 

responder and the reviewers. Please be 

as specific as possible in all responses. 

1. What is your level of interest in 

becoming a member of the Consortium 

and/or a member of one or more of the 

three Committees described in the RFI? 

Organizations and/or individuals 

must provide the following information 

when expressing interest in joining the 

Consortium. 

• First Name 

• Last Name 

• Position Title 

• Entity Type 

• Company/Organization Name 

• Email Address 

2. Are you or your organization 

involved with or interested in research, 

development, and demonstration 

(RD&D) activities pertinent to the four 

TOIs identified in the February 2023 

Workshop for Applied Research in CO2

Transport? If so, please respond 

separately to each TOI (a, b, c, or d) as 

noted below: 

(a) Impact of CO2 Impurities on Asset 

Integrity 

(b) CO2-Specific Leak Detection and 

Emergency Response Protocols 

(c) Repurposing of Existing 

Infrastructure for CO2 Service 

(d) Developing and Connecting with 

Other Modes of CO2 Transport/ 

Intermodal Hubs 

Please include the following 

information in your responses, if 

applicable: 

• CO2 transport mode 

• Project title 

• Organization or principal 

investigator(s) performing the 

research project 

• Main objective(s) 

• Description of anticipated project 

outputs 

• URL to public project page or project 

publications 


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• Project funding total 

• Funding entity name 

• Funding entity point of contact 

3. Are you or your organization 

involved with or interested in applied 

research, development, and 

demonstration activities relevant to CO2

transport that does not fall into one of 

the TOIs described in Question 2 above? 

If so, please suggest a topic of interest 

that most appropriately describes the 

RD&D area in which you are working or 

interested, and include the following 

information in your responses, if 

applicable: 

• CO2 transport mode 

• Project title 

• Organization or principal 

investigator(s) performing the 

research project 

• Main objective(s) 

• Description of anticipated project 

outputs 

• URL to public project page w/wo 

reporting or to access project 

publications 

• Project funding total 

• Funding entity name 

• Funding entity point of contact 

4. What would you find most valuable 

from having and participating in such a 

consortium? Please let us know what 

you think. 

VIII. Confidential Business Information 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any 

person submitting information that they 

believe to be confidential and exempt by 

law from public disclosure should 

submit via email two well-marked 

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. 

Submit these documents via email. DOE 

will make its own determination about 

the confidential status of the 

information and treat it according to its 

determination. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on December 12, 

2024, by Brad Crabtree, Assistant 

Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy and 

Carbon Management, 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 December 

16, 2024. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30335 Filed 12–19–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Privacy 

Act of 1974 and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Circulars A–108 and A–130, the 

Department of Energy (DOE or the 

Department) is publishing notice of a 

modification to an existing Privacy Act 

System of Records. DOE proposes to 

amend System of Records DOE–24 Land 

Records System. This System of Records 

Notice (SORN) is being modified to 

align with new formatting requirements, 

published by OMB, and to ensure 

appropriate Privacy Act coverage of 

business processes and Privacy Act 

information. 

DATES: This modified SORN will 

become applicable following the end of 

the public comment period on January 

21, 2025 unless comments are received 

that result in a contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to Ken Hunt, Chief Privacy 

Officer, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, Rm. 

8H–085, Washington, DC 20585, by 

facsimile at (202) 586–8151, or by email 

at privacy@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken 

Hunt, Chief Privacy Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Rm. 8H– 

085, Washington, DC 20585, by 

facsimile at (202) 586–8151, by email at 

privacy@hq.doe.gov, or by telephone at 

(240) 686–9485. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 9, 2009, DOE published a 

Compilation of its Privacy Act Systems 

of Records, which included System of 

Records DOE–24 Land Records System. 

This notice proposes the following 

amendments: The Southwestern Area 

Power Administration has been 

removed as a system location; the 

‘‘Categories of Individuals Covered by 

the System’’ section has been revised to 

accommodate landowners in service 

areas covered by the Bonneville Power 

Administration and Western Area 

Power Administration; ‘‘Categories of 

Records in the System’’ now includes 

property address, landowner mailing 

address, landowner phone number, and 

the last sale seller’s name; ‘‘Record 

Source Categories’’ now includes public 

databases; ‘‘Authority for Maintenance 

of the System’’ section adds 16 U.S.C. 

791 et seq., the Reclamation Act of June 

17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), the Department 

of Energy Organization Act of August 4, 

1977 (91 Stat. 565), and deletes 50 

U.S.C. 2401 et seq.; ‘‘Routine Uses’’ 

section deletes a previous routine use 

concerning efforts responding to a 

suspected or confirmed loss of 

confidentiality of information as it 

appears in DOE’s compilation of its 

Privacy Act Systems of Records (January 

9, 2009) and replaces it with one to 

assist DOE with responding to a 

suspected or confirmed breach of its 

records of Personally Identifiable 

Information (PII), modeled with 

language from OMB’s Memorandum M– 

17–12, ‘‘Preparing for and Responding 

to a Breach of Personally Identifiable 

Information’’ (January 3, 2017). Further, 

this notice adds one new routine use to 

ensure that DOE may assist another 

agency or entity in responding to the 

other agency’s or entity’s confirmed or 

suspected breach of PII, as appropriate, 

as aligned with OMB’s Memorandum 

M–17–12. A routine use has been added 

to include disclosure to appropriate 

local, tribal, state, or Federal agencies 

when needed to establish historical or 

current ownership. An administrative 

change required by the FOIA 

Improvement Act of 2016 extends the 

length of time a requestor is permitted 

to file an appeal under the Privacy Act 

from 30 to 90 days. Both the ‘‘System 

Locations’’ and ‘‘Administrative, 

Technical and Physical Safeguards’’ 

sections have been modified to reflect 

the Department’s usage of cloud-based 

services for records storage. Language 

throughout the SORN has been updated 

to align with applicable Federal privacy 

laws, policies, procedures, and best 

practices. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

DOE–24 Land Records System. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Systems leveraging this SORN may 

exist in multiple locations. All systems 

storing records in a cloud-based server 


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