Deviations for the Technology Reinvestment Project

The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to 10 CFR 600.4, hereby [[Page 17986]] announces two deviations from its Financial Assistance Rules for the Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP). The approval of these deviations ensures that the program goals and objectives are achieved and that public funds are conserved. The TRP is a joint agency effort which implements the provisions of Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Act of 1992. The Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce through the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, the Department of Transportation and the National Science Foundation are the six agencies collaborating in the TRP. The mission of TRP is to stimulate the transition to a growing, integrated, national industrial capability which provides the most advanced, affordable, military systems and the most competitive commercial production. The TRP seeks to harness the best talents available to focus on technology innovation, extension, infrastructure, and education and training for product and process technologies of critical importance to both national security and the national economy. The two deviations have been approved because they are required to achieve program objectives. The first deviation will permit budget periods in excess of 12 months consistent with the solicitation and the second deviation permits DOE to withhold payments with 30 days verbal advance notification.