# 114-hr-1872: To authorize Energy Frontier Research Centers.

114-hr-1872, To authorize Energy Frontier Research Centers., is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9] (D-FL); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-1872
- Congress: 114
- Title: To authorize Energy Frontier Research Centers.
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
- Introduced: 2015-04-16
- Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9] (D-FL)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

This bill instructs the Director of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science to make awards, on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis, to multi-institutional collaborations or other appropriate entities to conduct fundamental and use-inspired energy research to accelerate scientific breakthroughs related to needs identified in both the Grand Challenges report and the report of the DOE Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee entitled "From Quanta to the Continuum: Opportunities for Mesoscale Science," as well as in the Basic Energy Sciences Basic Research Needs workshop report. Such collaborations may include multiple types of institutions and private sector entities. No funding may be used to construct new buildings or facilities.

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## Sources
- [114-hr-1872 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1872)

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- [114-hr-6506: To provide that the President shall be financially responsible for any addition…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6506)
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