Project Grant DEEM0001363

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Southern States Energy Board received a $2.42 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management under the "Transport of Transuranic Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): States and Tribal Concerns, Proposed Solutions" program (CFDA 81.106), awarded November 1, 2025, with a completion date of October 31, 2030. The award funds state participation in accident prevention and emergency...

Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) received an $805,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) effective August 1, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029. This award supports consolidated innovative nuclear research activities conducted at the awardee's primary location in College Station, Texas. As a component of the...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Award Overview Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $422,193 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) effective August 1, 2026, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. This Phase II Continuation Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research (CINR) award, administered through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP),...

Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $900,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The award, issued on August 1, 2026, with a completion date of July 31, 2029, supports the Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research initiative. Performance of work will be conducted in College Station, Texas. This award...

This $157,286 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) supports a comprehensive project by the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security to inform current and future initiatives at the Salton Sea. Key objectives of the project include: 1) Identifying and analyzing relevant research on dust emissions, air quality, and related public health...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) received a $360,541.60 Cooperative Agreement from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under CFDA 81.214 (Environmental Monitoring/Cleanup, Cultural and Resource Management, Emergency Response Research, Outreach, Technical Analysis), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2030. Under this award, CTUIR serves as a Natural Resource Trustee member...

Iso-Pacific Remediation Technologies, Inc. received a $195,050.79 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on NONINVASIVE MERCURY DETECTION ON SURFACES. The grant funded the development of technologies for noninvasive detection of mercury on surfaces, advancing the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific tools and discoveries that transform understanding of nature and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Tennessee, through its System Office in Knoxville, received a $908,917 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, awarded September 3, 2025, with completion targeted for September 2, 2028. The primary deliverable is a system-scale modeling and machine learning framework designed to reduce beam trips—sudden losses of beam intensity caused by equipment failures, power fluctuations,...

This $112,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Substances Compliance Monitoring Cooperative Agreements (CFDA 66.701) program supports the Texas Department of State Health Services (TXDSHS) in developing and maintaining compliance monitoring programs to prevent or eliminate unreasonable risks to health or the environment associated with chemical substances or mixtures. Specifically, TXDSHS will conduct asbestos inspections at both public and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Texas Tech University received a $131,205 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) awarded February 27, 2026, with completion scheduled for February 26, 2029. The award supports an incisive interrogation of plasma-driven destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the plasma-solid and plasma-water interface. This research focuses on...