Categorical Exclusion Determinations: B3.11

This Second Amended Determination follows the approval of an extended period of performance and removal of two teaming partners to develop a catalyst-enabled, economical technology that will reduce emissions from ventilation air methane associated with coal mining, in progress under the Reducing Emissions of Methane Every Day of the Year (REMEDY) program.
The National and Homeland Security (N&HS) Wireless Testbed (WTB) Program at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) performs large-scale, independent, end-to-end research and development (R&D) of next generation communication infrastructure such as cellular phone systems, land mobile radios, emergency communications systems, and wireless local area network (WLAN) systems.
Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a long-distance wireless power transfer (WPT) 4 meter (m) phased array antenna with over 1 kilowatt of radio frequency power transmitting 200m to a 4m receiving antenna array with minimum 70 percent end-to-end efficiency from source to delivered direct current (DC) for the purpose of connecting energy generation with demand.