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A -- NATURAL GAS VEHICLE EXHAUST PARTICLE SAMPLING STUDY SOL DE-SC04-2000AL67010 DUE 100200 POC Point of Contact: Erwin E. Fragua 845-6442 Martha L. Youngblood 845-4268. WEB: Doing Business with DOE-AL, http://www.doeal.gov/cpd/default.htm. E-MAIL: Erwin Fragua, Contract Specialist, efragua@doeal.gov. The Department of Energy (DOE), Albuquerque Operations Office (AL) announces that it intends to conduct a competitive Program Solicitation and award financial assistance instruments (cooperative agreements) for the program entitled "Natural Gas Vehicle Exhaust Particle Sampling Study." Through this solicitation, DOE seeks to measure representative particle size distributions of both light-duty and heavy-duty natural gas powered vehicle exhaust and collect samples of toxicity sampling. A DOE technical panel will perform a scientific and engineering evaluation of each responsive application to determine the merit of the approach. DOE anticipates issuing one or more financial assistance instruments (cooperative agreements) from this solicitation. A maximum of $500,000 DOE funding is anticipated to be available. DOE reserves the right to support or not support, with or without discussions, any or all applications received in whole or in part, and to determine how many awards may be made through this solicitation subject to the funds available. Cost sharing by the applicant is desired. The program solicitation is expected to be available at the web site listed below on or about August 23, 2000. Applications must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the instructions and forms contained in the Program Solicitation. Posted 08/17/00 (D-SN487492). (0230)

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