Assistance program
Helium Resource Management
$55,478 committed in FY2018–FY2018
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)
- CFDA number
- 15.240
- What it does
- To meet the requirements of the Helium Privatization Act of 1996, Section 8, a crude helium enrichment unit was designed, constructed, and is now operated to ensure that the U.S. Government can upgrade and deliver crude helium from an underground storage field, by upgrading the gas to pipeline quality, compressing the gas and transmitting via the governments conservation pipeline which supplies helium to private helium plants located along the governments pipeline. Private plants refine the helium, supply private industry, government agencies and research projects. To pay back the helium debt, the cost that was incurred by purchasing the helium, and to ensure that the U.S. Government can redeliver crude helium into the conservation pipeline system in order to meet private and Government customer needs, as defined in the Helium Privatization Act.
- Who benefits
- Not applicable.
- Who applies
- Not applicable.
- Authorized by
- Helium Privatization Act of 1996, 50 U.S.C 167, Public Law 104-273.
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