Pipeline Safety Information Grants To Communities: Technical Assistance Grants (TAG)
Pipeline safety is a shared responsibility and informed communities play a vital role in the safety and reliability of pipeline operations.
The Pipeline Safety Information Grants to Communities:
Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) provides funding to local communities and groups of individuals for technical assistance related to pipeline safety.
The program also provides opportunities that strengthen the depth and quality of public participation in the safe development and operation of pipelines in and around communities.
Technical assistance is defined as engineering or other scientific analysis of pipeline safety issues.
Since program inception in 2009, PHMSA has awarded almost $8 million for 178 individual technical assistance projects.
TAG awards have funded a broad range of activities, including:
improvement of local pipeline emergency response capabilities; improvement of safe digging or damage prevention programs; developmentof pipeline safety information resources; implementation of local land use practices that enhance pipeline safety; community and pipeline awareness campaigns; and, public participation in official proceedings pertaining to pipeline safety.
A summary of the TAGawards, including final reports from completed grant projects, is available at http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/tag.
The Pipeline Safety Information Grants to Communities:
Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) provides funding to local communities and groups of individuals for technical assistance related to pipeline safety.
The program also provides opportunities that strengthen the depth and quality of public participation in the safe development and operation of pipelines in and around communities.
Technical assistance is defined as engineering or other scientific analysis of pipeline safety issues.
Since program inception in 2009, PHMSA has awarded almost $8 million for 178 individual technical assistance projects.
TAG awards have funded a broad range of activities, including:
improvement of local pipeline emergency response capabilities; improvement of safe digging or damage prevention programs; developmentof pipeline safety information resources; implementation of local land use practices that enhance pipeline safety; community and pipeline awareness campaigns; and, public participation in official proceedings pertaining to pipeline safety.
A summary of the TAGawards, including final reports from completed grant projects, is available at http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/tag.
Agency: Department of Transportation
Office: Pipeline &Hazardous Material Safety Administration
Estimated Funding: $450,000
Office: Pipeline &Hazardous Material Safety Administration
Estimated Funding: $450,000
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-09-110.html
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Applicants for the TAG must be local communities or groups of individuals (not including for-profit entities) relating to the safety of pipeline facilities in local communities, other than facilities regulated under Public Law 93-153 (43 U.S.C.
1651 et seq.).
Eligible applicants include cities, towns, villages, counties, parishes, townships, and similar governmental subdivisions, or consortiums of such subdivisions, and groups of individuals; not including for-profit entities.
States, universities, and for-profit entities are not eligible for TAG funding.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-09-110.html
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
Grants Support
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2018-05-22
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2018-09-28
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