DOE/NETL BIL Rare Earth Element Demonstration Facility FOA (DE-FOA-0002618)

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding opportunity DE-FOA-0002618, 'BIL - Rare Earth Element Demonstration Facility', issued by the DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management in collaboration with the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains and administered through NETL. The BIL invests $156 million for design, construction, and operation of a rare earth element demonstration facility processing unconventional feedstocks such as acid mine drainage and mine waste, with academic institutions as prime applicants for a Phase I front-end engineering design (FEED) study and a potential Phase II demonstration facility. Opened September 19, 2022; closed November 21, 2022; Phase I selections announced April 4, 2023 ($16 million to the University of North Dakota and West Virginia University). The demonstration-facility phase was later re-solicited under a separate NOFO, DE-FOA-0003587 (December 2025).

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