# Idaho Operations Office; Industry Materials of the Future (Industry Specific and Crosscutting Technologies)
**AGENCY:**
Idaho Operations Office, DOE
**ACTION:**
Notice of availability of financial assistance solicitation.
**SUMMARY:**
The U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office is seeking applications for cost-shared research and development of materials or materials processing methods, in accordance with the Program Plan for the Industrial Materials for the Future Program, available at www.oit.doe.gov. This will be a national effort to research, design, develop, engineer, and test new and improved materials to achieve improvements in energy efficiency, emissions and waste reduction, productivity, product quality, and global competitiveness.
**DATES:**
The issuance date of Solicitation Number DE-PS07-01ID13985 will be on April 26, 2001. The deadline for receipt of applications will be approximately on May 31, 2001.
**ADDRESSES:**
The solicitation in its full text will be available on the Internet at the following URL address: *http://www.id.doe.gov/doeid/PSD/proc-div.html or http://e-center.doe.gov.* Applications should be submitted to: Seb Klein, Procurement Services Division, U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office, 850 Energy Drive, Mail Stop 1221, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401-1563.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Seb Klein, Contract Specialist, [email protected] gov.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The statutory authority for the program is the Federal Non-Nuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-577). The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number for this program is 81.086.
R.J. Hoyles,
Director, Procurement Services Division.