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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility

Announcement Number
DE-FOA-0003587
Announcement Type
Notice of Funding Opportunity
Opening Date
12-01-2025
Closing Date
01-05-2026
Contract Specialist
Alissa Temperine
Office
Office of Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains
Details

Original Closing Date: 01-05-2026

The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) is issuing this NOFO to request applications for projects to design, construct, commission and operate a Rare Earth Element (REE) Demonstration Facility that demonstrates the separation of REEs from feedstock derived from acid mine drainage, mine waste, or other deleterious materials to rare earth oxides and refining into rare earth metals at a single site.

Instructions for this NOFO can be found at Infrastructure eXCHANGE: Funding Opportunities.