Staff Support to Tribal Radioactive Materials Transportation Committee for Engagement with the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy on Radioactive Materials Transportation Planning
Funds staff support to facilitate engagement between DOE and federally recognized Tribal governments on radioactive materials transportation planning and related DOE program issues affecting Tribal areas.
RESTRICTED TO: TRIBAL ENTITIES
⚑ Cooperative agreement · Award ceiling up to $2,000,000 · Focus is engagement/staff support, not research or service delivery · Eligibility text not provided in the notice excerpt; verify applicant class requirements in the full announcement
This is mainly a technical-assistance / stakeholder-engagement award centered on tribal-government coordination for radioactive materials transport planning, which is outside IPPRA’s typical PI-led research portfolio. While the nuclear-waste policy context overlaps tangentially with Gupta, Ripberger, Silva, and Jenkins-Smith, the opportunity is implementation/support rather than the team’s survey, risk-perception, or public-opinion research line.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-09-01
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | portfolio topics: energy, environment (primary); signature methods: community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is minor; funds technical assistance, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 35 weak | technical depth: minor; funds technical assistance (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
Staff Support to the Tribal Radioactive Materials Transportation Committee for Engagement with the U.S. Department of Energy on Radioactive Materials Transportation Planning. Facilitate engagement between DOE and federally-recognized Tribal governments throughout the United States in planning for future large-scale DOE transportation of commercial used nuclear fuel (UNF), high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and other radioactive wastes, as well as related DOE program issues that may impact Tribal areas.
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