Entity |
Total Funding Approved to Date by DOE (thousands $) |
Total number of jobs to be created by EOFY 2001 |
Final progress reported |
Brief Description of Project |
Status of Project |
New Business Development Initiative |
2,000 |
260 |
233 |
Assist region in becoming more economically diversified by supporting new bus. dev. activity |
Entered into Management Services Agreement with Technology 2020 on 1/1/00 to manage this grant, recommend loans to back, and provide additional qualified staff support |
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| ET2001 Implementing the Vision |
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| Reindustrialization (including ED-1) |
5,625 |
279 |
198 |
Subleasing ETTP facilities; const. Ind. Park |
33 approved subleases; Ind. Park progress on schedule and nearing completion (9/30/00) |
| *National Electronics Recycling Pilot Project |
4,000 |
60 |
23 |
Develop electronic recycling and reuse industry |
Sales of recycled computers continues (9/30/00) |
| Area Assistance |
1,100 |
1,250 |
598 |
Assistance to area government entities |
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| City of Oak Ridge |
495 |
400 |
110 |
Provide gap funding to Roane St; assist private sector HQ opening; ED support |
Roane State OR Branch campus open and employing 170 FTEs; funds provided for location and training expenses for private sector HQ opening which recently went public; funding used to support "Partners for Progress" plan to provide infrastructive installation for 5 West End industrial sites, Operation Oak Ridge, and hire consultant to assist in updating Economic Development Chapter of City's Comprehensive Plan, which is nearly complete. (9/30/00) |
| Roane County |
435 |
150 |
100 |
Develop remaining land in existing Ind. Park |
Area opened for development 7/98 with 3 new businesses located (9/30/00) |
| Anderson County |
170 |
700 |
388 |
Improvement to Quality Drive (Ind. Park) |
Work complete 2/00; new business located Summer 2000 (9/30/00) |
| Operations Reserve |
225 |
15 |
8 |
Funding placed in reserve per DOE auditors |
Funding transferred to Reindustrialization Task in 1998 per DOE |
| Manufacturing Skills Campus |
1,500 |
83 |
256 |
Offer specialized craft skills training |
Training provided for over 1,365 students (9/30/00) |
| Regional Workforce Development |
420 |
140 |
3 |
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$672,000 matching and in-kind support toward RWD initiatives |
| Blount County |
13 |
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Offer specialized craft skills training |
Training of 429 students completed (9/30/00) |
| East Tenn. Environmental Business Assn. |
190 |
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Assist and promote regional env. Businesses |
Self-sufficiency attained 3/31/00 |
| Gold Enterprises and Technologies, Inc. |
10 |
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Develop a measurable plan to define information and data that will incorporate a diverse social, economic, and ethnic work force. |
Plan still under development (9/30/00) |
| Knox County (Development Corporation) |
10 |
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Identify Market Sector/New Initiatives |
75 meetings held throughout 10 counties as part of first phase of public involvement, followed by series of open-house public meetings in each county. Data re: travel time, traffic count, demographics, alternative mode technology has been collected. Completion of Study on schedule for 8/2001. |
| Morgan County |
27 |
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Employability Skills Training |
22 displaced workers retrained (9/30/00) |
| Integrated Services Mgmt (formerly Walcoff) |
42.6 |
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Assist displaced wrkrs in locating employment |
Business plan and marketing strategy developed and presented to IT firms in 1999; lack of working model in Oak Ridge caused slow corporate acceptance; performance below projections (9/30/00) |
| Worldwide Interactive Network |
68 |
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Conduct employee & workplace profiles for displaced worker retraining |
Training of 29 students completed (1/15/01) |
| Gene Research Initiative |
600 |
124 |
0 |
Determination of private gene research facility |
Limited Liability Consortium formed. Dues from Member Companies received 1/9/01 |
| National Transportation Research Center |
1,500 |
120 |
0 |
Development of an NTRC in East Tenn. |
85,000 sq. ft. facility opened 10/00 housing 165 ORNL and UT staff and support contractors |
| Technology 2020 |
300 |
175 |
255 |
Stimulate ED activity through use of info. Tech. |
Fifteen incubator tenants supported; 33 new businesses created (9/30/00) |
| Tennessee's Resource Valley |
150 |
0 |
0 |
Facilitate marketing of East Tenn. |
Merged with ET Ind. Development Assoc. 1/01 to form East Tennessee Economic Development Agency |
| * The NERC grant was approved later than the original ET-2001 grant (on 5/13/98 for a two-year period), and thus, expires on 5/12/00. |
| Regional Economic Diversification |
1,780 |
641 |
525 |
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Over $22 million in matching and in-kind support toward RED initiatives |
| Anderson County |
225 |
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Infrastructure/Industrial Park Development |
Work completed (9/30/00) |
| Anderson County Development Corporation |
215 |
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Access/egress/site preparation/grading for Industrial park development. |
Progress on schedule (9/30/00) |
| Blount County Industrial Development Board |
45 |
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Site Assessment Engineering & Design |
120 acres developed and site analysis for Phase I design work completed for Partnership Park South (9/30/00) |
| Campbell County |
20 |
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Site work for expansion of Ind. Machine Shop |
Work completed (9/30/00) |
| CROET Micro-Loan Program |
45 |
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Micro-loan program for small businesses |
Provided to Technology 2020 Finance Corporation 12/99 as leverage for SBA grant |
| Grainger County Industrial Development Board |
5 |
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Marketing manufacturing facility and highly-skilled workforce to science and technology-based industries. |
45,000 sq ft facility completed and negotiations are underway with automotive part manufacturer that will employ 200-250 (12/18/00) |
| Knox County (Development Corporation of) |
40 |
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Infrastructure in WestBridge Industrial Park |
Drainage infrastructure completed which allowed 27 acres to be graded and a company employing 27 locating on the site. (9/30/00) |
| Knox County (Development Corporation of) |
80 |
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Elect. Dist. System - Pellissippi Corp Center |
153 developed acres added to land inventory; NTRC completed and open for business as anchor tenant; expectations of sale of 9-acre tract to company which will employ 150 this FY (9/30/00) |
| Knoxville Comm Dev Corp/East TN Mech Corp |
50 |
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Provide skilled craft training to support renovation of affordable housing units |
Learn-While-You-Earn Program providing construction skills to apprentices to assist with upgrading of housing projects received significant media attention in CY 2000 (9/30/00) |
| Loudon County |
70 |
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Identify industrial sites |
Visioning phase and document complete (9/30/00) |
| Loudon Utilities |
76 |
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Plan to upgrade and expand infrastructure |
Anticipated approval 11/00 of low interest rate loans from state for water and wastewater plants as a result of CROET funded Master Plan (10/31/00) |
| Meigs County |
10 |
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Production/development of tourism/industrial recruitment materials |
Marketing videos of the area were produced and distributed, resulting in locating a much needed Nurse Practitioner to this county (9/30/00) |
| Monroe County Economic Development Office |
8 |
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Maps of Niles Ferry/Madisonville Industrial Parks |
Maps completed and in use (9/30/00) |
| Morgan County Small Business Assistance |
20 |
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Micro-loan program |
Full funding has been loaned; County managing progress (9/30/00) |
| New Century Alliance |
19 |
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Support optimization of area's existing resources |
Materials produced and in use (9/30/00) |
| Oak Ridge (City of) |
24 |
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Water and sewer master plan |
Plan completed (9/30/00) |
| Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board |
67 |
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Construct 50,000 sq ft bldg in Bethel Valley Industrial Park |
Plan on schedule (9/30/00) |
| Oak Ridge Rowing Association |
15 |
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Development/upgrade rowing course |
Course upgrades resulted in $1 million revenue in CY 2000 (9/30/00) |
| Pellissippi State Technical Community College |
150 |
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Assistance with development of East Knoxville branch campus |
Renovations complete; facility in use; 34 students served via distance learning equipment (9/30/00) |
| Roane St Comm Coll & TN Small Bus Dev Ctr |
45 |
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Develop 5 local bus resource & learning ctrs in non-metro counties |
196 small business clients have been counseled (11/30/00) |
| Roane County Industrial Development Board |
55 |
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Prelim work-development Macedonia Ind. Park |
Work to resume based on weather accommodations (9/30/00) |
| Roane County Industrial Development Board |
45 |
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Infrastructure improvements to RC Ind. Park |
Work completed and 3 new business located in CY 2000 (9/30/00) |
| Roane St Comm College Building Fund |
80 |
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Bldg perm Oak Ridge branch campus |
Construction complete; facility in use (9/30/00) |
| Tellico Reservoir Development Agency |
5.8 |
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Purchase of desktop publishing equipment to improve marketing information packets. |
Direct link to numerous high quality jobs has been provided to the CROET office (9/30/00) |
| ET 2001 TOTAL RECEIVED |
17,200 |
2,887 |
1,866 |
| TOTAL RECEIVED BOTH GRANTS |
19,200 |
3,147 |
2,099 |
Entity |
Total Funding Approved to Date by DOE (thousands $) |
Total Funding Expended to Date (thousands $) |
% of Funding Expended |
Brief Description of Project |
Status of Project |
Total number of jobs to be created by EOFY 2001 |
Final progress reported |
| Reindustrialization (including ED-1) |
4,828 |
4,771 |
99% |
Subleasing Heritage Center facilities; constructing Horizon Center |
32 tenants; Phase I Industrial Park construction complete except for some landscaping and rough grading of potential building locations (2/20/01) |
289 |
50 |
| Manufacturing Skills Campus |
540 |
378 |
70% |
Offer specialized craft skills training |
Training provided for 206 students (2/20/01) |
29 |
19 |
| National Transportation Research Center |
864 |
864 |
100% |
Development of the NTRC in East Tennessee |
85,000 sq. ft. facility opened 10/00 housing 165 ORNL and UT staff and support contractors; Leveraged funding of $3,970,462.00 (2/20/01) |
69 |
5 |
| Regional Econ Divers/Workforce Development |
576 |
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Offer specialized craft skills training |
Training provided for 206 students (2/20/01) |
29 |
19 |
| Anderson County Development Corporation |
26 |
26 |
100% |
Site prep. In David Jones for industry |
Grading for King Business Forms approximately 50% complete. Co. will locate here with 60 jobs upon occupany and 60 additional within 3-5 years (2/20/01) |
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| Lake City (City of) |
9 |
9 |
100% |
Relocation of water lines |
Water lines relocated and new facility being constructed (9/30/00) |
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| Loudon County |
14 |
14 |
100% |
Develop commercial and industrial data base |
Data base development underway (2/26/01) |
29 |
19 |
| Morgan County Government |
17 |
17 |
100% |
Devise strategic plan to attract new major employer |
Grant funding transmitted to county (2/20/01) |
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| New Century Alliance |
23 |
23 |
100% |
Improve no. of prospects locating to the region |
Fluor Global Services study nearing completion with community analysis/implementation underway (2/23/01) |
|
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| Oak Ridge (City of) |
183 |
0 |
0% |
Wastewater force main to Horizon Center |
Paperwork for matching funds completed and submitted 12/00 |
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| Pellissippi St.(East Knox Branch Campus) |
26 |
26 |
100% |
Equipping computer science technology classroom |
2 CST classes with multiple sections offered fall 2000 semester with 23 successful enrollees (2/20/01) |
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| Regional Industrial Development Assn |
6 |
0 |
0% |
Labor study |
Merger of RIDA and Tennessee's Resource Valley will require proposal scope of work revision with funding likely to be requested for updating marketing materials (2/20/01) |
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| Roane County Industrial Development Board |
80 |
80 |
100% |
Engineering studies/archaeological survey |
Work to begin based on weather accommodations (2/20/01) |
|
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| Technology 2020 |
33 |
33 |
100% |
Digital Crossing (DC) |
8 on-site and 2 virtual tenants employing 54 FTEs attributed to CROET assistance (2/20/01) |
|
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| UT/Worldwide Interactive Network |
22 |
22 |
100% |
Offer comprehensive workplace skills for Knox Cty ind. |
Training of 29 students completed (2/20/01) |
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| YWCA |
30 |
30 |
100% |
Work Preparedness Training Program |
Ribbon Cutting 11/10/01. 3 trained and employed locally, with 2 more in training (2/20/01) |
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| ET 2002 TOTAL RECEIVED (INCLUDING COMPLETED GRANTS) |
26,007 |
25,580 |
98% |
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