THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR A FORMAL PROPOSAL. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is releasing a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Sales Agreement to disposition approximately 15,300 U.S. tons (2,000 pounds per ton) of classified and contaminated nickel scrap, including approximately 5,600 tons of shredded nickel scrap currently stored at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and approximately 9,700 tons of nickel ingots and the associated molds currently stored at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) in Paducah, Kentucky. The draft RFP has been posted to the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Nickel Disposition website: http://www.emcbc.doe.gov/nickel/. THE NICKEL DISPOSITION WEBSITE WILL BE DOES PRIMARY COMMUNICATION CONDUIT FOR THIS SALES AGREEMENT. INTERESTED PARTIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THIS WEBSITE DAILY FOR ANY NEW INFORMATION. Interested parties have 45 days to submit comments and inquiries via email to [email protected]. It is requested that comments/inquiries be sent to this email only and that comments/inquiries be submitted on the comment matrix provided at the Nickel Disposition website. Comments/inquires are due, 3 PM Eastern Time, September 4, 2009. All industry comments will be considered for potential incorporation and/or clarification in the development of the formal RFP. No paper copies of the draft RFP will be made available. Proposals submitted in response to the draft RFP will not be accepted or evaluated. A formal RFP may be released at a later date for which interested parties may submit proposals. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR A FORMAL PROPOSAL.

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