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The Department of Energy and Department of Housing and Urban Development are proposing to provide Federal funding to the City of Boise for the design and construction of an extension of the City's geothermal system onto the Boise State University campus.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposed to authorize the expenditure of federal funding to U.S. Geothermal Nevada, Inc. (USGN) to validate the use of innovative geothermal technologies to locate large aperture fractures (LAFs) and to drill two (2) production diameter geothermal wells on BLM administered public lands in the San Emidio resource area. The innovative geothermal technologies would include using a three-component long-offset surface seismic survey, permanent scatter synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PSInSAR) and structural kinematic analysis to locate and map the LAFs. The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Black Rock Field Office (BLM) is the lead federal agency with DOE as a cooperating agency.

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (Commission or FERC’s) regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy Projects has reviewed Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC’s application for license for the Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project (FERC Project No. 12713-002), which would be located in Oregon State territorial waters about 2.5 nautical miles off the coast near Reedsport, in Douglas County, Oregon.

The Department of Energy is proposing to authorize the expenditure of up to $50 million in federal funding to Myriant Lake Providence, LLC to support the final design, construction, and start-up of the proposed Myriant Succinic Acid Biorefinery to be located on a 55-acre industrial site leased from the Lake Providence Port Commission in Lake Providence, Louisiana.

The Department of Energy prepared the Final Environmental Assessment which analyzed the potential environmental impacts of providing the University of Delaware of $2.43 milllion grant of Congressionally Directed Federal Funding to assist in the financing of the construction and operation of a 2 megawatt wind turbine adjacent to the University's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment Campus in Lewes, Delaware.