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This document is a Notice of Intent (NOI) to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) No. DE-FOA-0002956 entitled "Advancing Technology Development for Securing a Domestic Supply of Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM)". The NOI is issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM).

The intended FOA will have four Areas of Interest: (1) Coproduction of Critical Minerals and Materials and Carbon Manufacturing Precursor Materials from Unconventional Coal and Other Carbon-based Feedstocks; (2) Recovery of Heavy Rare Earth Elements from Secondary and Unconventional Resources; (3) Critical Mineral Recovery from Produced Water; and (4) Process Diversification: Production of Rare Earth Elements from Secondary/Unconventional Resources and Recycled Materials. The FOA will be funded through the DOE's Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). Applications are not being accepted at this time, and the DOE is not seeking comments on the information in this NOI.