Documents Regarding The Decarbonisation Of The Steel Industry.

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This FOI disclosure contains correspondence from October 2023 regarding the Powering the Regions Fund's Critical Inputs to Clean Energy Industries (CICEI) program for primary steel production. The document shows departmental staff responding to a BHP inquiry about grant eligibility criteria. The program targets facilities currently operating in primary steel production that are captured under the Safeguard Mechanism reforms, are trade-exposed, and hard to abate. Eligible facilities received invitations when guidelines were released on GrantConnect with application details. The disclosure is administrative correspondence clarifying program eligibility rather than environmental assessment, regulatory decisions, or scientific advice. No quantified environmental data, EPBC Act decisions, or tension between scientific and policy positions is evident in the excerpt provided.