Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation Award Number: DE-EE0006926 CX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B1.31, B3.6 Advanced Manufacturing Office Date: 02/25/2016 Location(s): TN Office(s): Golden Field Office
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February 25, 2016
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Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
Award Number: DE-EE0006926
CX(s) Applied: B3.1, B3.2, B3.6
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 02/25/2016
Location(s): TN
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) project. The Institute is planned as a consortium established under a Cooperative Agreement with the DOE with participation from sub-recipients of the award, private companies, universities and other educational institutions, as well as other state and federal government agencies and research organizations. IACMI’s technology development and demonstration programs would focus on reducing technical risk and developing a robust supply chain to support growing applications of advanced composites in vehicles, wind energy and compressed gas storage. Participating states would engage their economic development and education programs to encourage new business formation and develop a capable workforce to serve the composites industry. This project has five budget periods but only project activities within budget period 1 and 2 (BP1 and BP2) have been defined. BP1 was reviewed in a previous NEPA Determination (GFO-0006926-001; 06/04/15). A BP2 NEPA Determination was completed (GFO-0006926-002; 01/26/16) for project partners whose proposed activities were either strictly intellectual, academic, and analytical activities or would be conducted at facilities where the proposed activities were consistent with current operations and expansion or sizable modification of facilities were not expected to occur in BP2. Any partners with proposed activities that do not fit the above are required to submit separate EQ1s for further review. This NEPA Determination is specific to BP2 work occurring as part of Michigan State University (MSU) activities related to the planned IACMI Scale-up Facility at 1400 Rosa Parks Blvd. in Detroit, Michigan.