Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development activities to develop a more environmentally-friendly, lessenergy-inte…
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
February 28, 2020
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Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development activities to develop a more environmentally-friendly, lessenergy-intensive method of mining polymetallic nodules; picking them directly from the ocean floor with robotic arms and depositing them directlyinto a vacuum to the surface.