Office of Science Financial Assistance Program Notice DE-FG01-04ER04-06: Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research Program

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The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research grants in the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Program. The goal of the NABIR program is to provide the fundamental science that will serve as the basis for development of cost-effective bioremediation and long-term stewardship of radionuclides and metals in the subsurface at DOE sites. The focus of the program is on understanding the role of microorganisms in long-term immobilization of contaminants in place, and the potential for their remobilization. Contaminants of interest are uranium, technetium, plutonium, chromium or mercury. NABIR is focused on subsurface sediments below the zone of root influence and includes both the vadose (unsaturated) zone and the saturated zone (groundwater and sediments). Applications should describe research projects in one or more of the following program categories: (1) Biogeochemistry, Biotransformation, Community Dynamics and Microbial Ecology, or Assessment; (2) Interdisciplinary studies that integrate research from more than one NA