Clean Energy Smart Manufacuring Innovation Institute (CESMII)
Award Number: DE-EE0007613
CX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B1.31, B2.1
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Date: 12/7/2016
Location(s): CA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) to be DOE's third Manufacturing Innovation Institute under the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. The purpose of the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative is to strengthen U.S. clean energy manufacturing competitiveness and to increase U. S. manufacturing competitiveness across the board by boosting energy productivity and leveraging low-cost domestic energy resources as fuels and feedstocks. CESMII is funded under a Cooperative Agreement with the DOE and with participation from numerous sub-recipients of the award to develop an integrated system of advanced sensors, controls, platforms, and modeling across a diverse portfolio to drive technology and manufacturing practice and technical projects and services to achieve wide spread Smart Manufacturing and industry driven transformation. This project has five budget periods but only project activities within budget period 1 (BP1) have been defined. This NEPA Determination is specific to BP1 only. Further NEPA review will be required for the remaining budget periods once those activities have been defined and negotiated.
Each task/subtask in BP1 would be completed by either the prime recipient or one of the sub-recipients. The focus of BP1 activities would be related to the startup of the institute, including staffing, developing and finalizing policies and procedures, developing roadmaps and strategic planning. For the sub-recipients listed in question 2b of the completed EQ1, the scope of work for proposed activities of the sub-recipients in BP1 are generally intellectual, academic and analytical activities. The location of the facilities and description of proposed activities for the prime recipient and each sub-recipient is detailed within question 2b of the completed EQ1 for the project. Initially, entries detailed in question 2b include only those projects approved by the contracting officer at the start of BP1. Additional entries in question 2b may be incorporated as new sub-recipients are brought into the CESMII project and specific sites are identified as long as these additional entries conform to the rationale and CXs applied in this NEPA Determination. Any new sub-recipients that do not fit the above will be required to submit separate EQ1s for further review.
