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Show Energy Department Offers Grants applications will facilitate a higher rate of project approval due to the increased availability of funds for the state," Byrne said. Examples of past projects funded under this program include solar heating, hydroelectric and wind generation, use of wood, wooci wastes. and agriultural by-products, energy education, and creative energy conservation programs. Approximately $500,000 is available to the six states in DOE's Region VIII under this program. The Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program is one of the few U.S. Department of Energy programs for the development of renewable resources that still has complete funding through 1981. The deadline for grant applications is April 20, 1981. For more information on application and eligibility for these funds contact the Utah Energy Hotline at 533-FACT. the toll-free Hotline number at 1-800-662-3633. or the U.S. Department of Energy at 1-800-525-1072. The U.S. Department ot Energy (DOE) will offer grants of up to $50,000 to individuals and organizations inan effort to promote n e r g y conservation, the use of non-conventional energy resources and to seek out and assist the development of innovative energy ideas. The purpose of DOE's Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program is to encourage development, ,. demonstration projects and dissemination of information concering energy-related systems and technologies. DOE hopes to encourage the use of renewable resources and the conservation of fossil fuels, to apply existing technologies to new and innovative uses, and to develop small-scale energy conservation or renewable resource devices through this financial assistance. 1 program. I Individuals, non-profit organizations and ' institutions, state and local agencies, colleges and universities, Indian tribes I and small businesses are eligible to apply for these grants. In 1979. the state of I Utah received $61,157 to j fund approved projects and only $43,800 in 1980. I "The amount of grant j money awarded to each state is directly proportional to the number of grant j applications" according to Jim Byrne, deputy director of the Utah Energy Office. j "A greater number of |