Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 27 / Thursday, February 8, 2001 / Notices 9563

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 Ms. Mitchell at DOE.

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

a minimum of 30% of personnel time

invoiced under the grant is to pay for

student assistance for each year of the

grant. 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 of Energy is interested in

innovative research and development of

advanced concepts pertinent to fossil

fuel conversion and utilization limited

to the following nine (9) technical

topics:

Topic 1—Advanced Environmental

Control Technologies for Coal

Topic 2—Advanced Coal Utilization

Topic 3—Clean Fuels Technology

Topic 4—Heavy Oil Upgrading and

Processing

Topic 5—Advanced Recovery,

Completion/Stimulation, and

Geoscience Technologies for Oil

Topic 6—Natural Gas Supply,

Storage, and Processing

Topic 7—Infrastructure Reliability for

Natural Gas

Topic 8—Fuel Cells

Topic 9—Facility/Student Exploratory

Research Training Grants

Note: Technical Topic No. 9, Faculty/

Student Exploratory Research Training

Grants, is the only topic 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, with or

without discussions, 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 1–8:

0–12 months grant duration .. $85,000

13–24 months grant duration 150,000

25–36 months grant duration 200,000

Topic 9:

0–12 months grant duration .. 20,000

Approximately $900,000 is planned

for this solicitation. The total should

provide support for four to eight

research and development application

selections (Topics 1–8), and

approximately two to twelve faculty/

student exploratory research training

application selections (Topic 9).

Solicitation Release Date: The

Program Solicitation is expected to be

ready for release on or about February

2, 2001. 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 March 20, 2001 at 5:00 PM

Eastern Standard Time).

Issued in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on

January 30, 2001.

William R. Mundorf,

Contracting Officer, Acquisition and

Assistance Division.

[FR Doc. 01–3314 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket Nos. ER99–3144–003, ER99–3144–

004 and ER99–3144–005; EC99–80–003,

EC99–80–004, and EC99–80–005, ER00–

2869–000 and EC00–103–000 (not

consolidated)]

Request for Information Regarding

Grandfathered Contracts Prior to

Convening Session

February 2, 2001.

In the matter of: American Electric Power

Service Corporation on behalf of:

Appalachian Power Company, Columbus

Southern Power Company, Indiana Michigan

Power Company, Kentucky Power Company,

Kingsport Power Company, Ohio Power

Company, Wheeling Power Company, The

Detroit Edison Company, First Energy

Corporation on behalf of: The Cleveland

Electric Illuminating Company, Ohio Edison

Company, Pennsylvania Power Company,

The Toledo Edison Company, Virginia

Electric and Power Company, Consumers

Energy Company.

Pursuant to the order in Alliance

Companies, et al., 91 FERC ¶ 61,070

(2001), the Commission directed parties

with grandfathered contracts whose

terms extend beyond the transition

period to negotiate amendments or

termination of such contracts. To assist

the parties, the Commission directed the

Director of the Commission’s Dispute

Resolution Service (DRS) to convene a

meeting of the parties to explore the use

of an ADR process to foster negotiation

and agreement.

All parties with grandfathered

agreements that are the subject of the

Commission’s order, as described above,

are requested to contact the DRS. To

contact the DRS, please send an e-mail

including the name, telephone number

and e-mail address of the party contact

as well as the title and description of the

grandfathered contract(s) involved to

Amy.Blauman@ferc.fed.us no later than

February 16, 2001. The DRS can also be

reached at (202) 208–2143.

The DRS is tentatively planning to

hold the convening session during the

week of March 4, 2001. However, the

DRS will be in contact with the parties

who respond to this request to select an

appropriate date and location for the

meeting. A notice of the date and

location of the convening session will

be issued at a later date.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–3262 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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