Financial Assistance to Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative

Zusammenfassung

The U.S. Department of Energy, Rocky Flats Field Office, gives notice of its plan to make a noncompetitive financial assistance award to the Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative (RFLII) based on the criterion set forth at 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2)(i)(C). $4,000,000 will be provided to RFLII under DOE Grant No. DE-FG34-92RF00475 to implement the Rocky Flats Community Economic Conversion Plan. The goal of this Plan is to help the Rocky Flats community initiate economic development activities to make new, innovative use of facilities, equipment, and employee skills, or deploy technologies to the local area to create new commercial products, processes or services. The Plan focuses on supporting job creation for dislocated workers and to diversify the local economy away from defense spending by facilitating marketing and small business assistance, enhancing environmental and energy technologies, and developing a capability for technical manufacturing hands-on training. Priority is given to helping existing businesses expand and in job creation; creating new start-up companies, and in making the front range of Colorado a center for energy and environmental technologies. The Plan consists of fou