The U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), administers a State Damage Prevention grant program designed to support state excavation damage prevention efforts.
Donor Name: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/27/2022
Grant Size: $100,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The State Damage Prevention Grant program is established under 49 USC §60134, which states in part:
- In General, the Secretary may make a grant to a State authority (including a municipality with respect to intrastate gas pipeline transportation) to assist in improving the overall quality and effectiveness of a damage prevention program of the State authority under subsection (e) if the State authority:
- has in effect an annual certification under section 60105 or an agreement under section 60106;
- has in effect an effective damage prevention program that meets the requirements of subsection (b); or demonstrates that it has made substantial progress toward establishing such a program, and that such program will meet the requirements of subsection (b); and
- does not provide any exemptions to municipalities, State agencies, or their contractors from the one-call notification system requirements of the program.
- Damage Prevention Program Elements. An effective damage prevention program includes the following elements:
- Participation by operators, excavators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of methods for establishing and maintaining effective communications between stakeholders from receipt of an excavation notification until successful completion of the excavation, as appropriate.
- A process for fostering and ensuring the support and partnership of stakeholders, including excavators, operators, locators, designers, and local government in all phases of the program.
- A process for reviewing the adequacy of a pipeline operator’s internal performance measures regarding persons performing locating services and quality assurance programs.
- Participation by operators, excavators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of effective employee training programs to ensure that operators, the one-call center, the enforcing agency, and the excavators have partnered to design and implement training for the employees of operators, excavators, and locators.
- A process for fostering and ensuring active participation by all stakeholders in public education for damage prevention activities.
- A process for resolving disputes that defines the State authority’s role as a partner and facilitator to resolve issues
- Enforcement of State damage prevention laws and regulations for all aspects of the damage prevention process, including public education, and the use of civil penalties for violations assessable by the appropriate State authority.
- A process for fostering and promoting the use, by all appropriate stakeholders, of improving technologies that may enhance communications, underground pipeline locating capability, and gathering and analyzing information about the accuracy and effectiveness of locating programs.
- A process for review and analysis of the effectiveness of each program element, including a means for implementing improvements identified by such program reviews.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $100,000
- Award Floor: $1,000
- The period of performance for the State Damage Prevention grant will be twelve months from the date of the award, and this will be noted in the Notice of Award.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for the State Damage Prevention grant, the applicant must be designated in writing as the State Authority eligible to receive the grant. The applicant is required to submit a letter from the Governor of the state indicating that the organization is the designated authority for the State to receive State Damage Prevention grant funding for that state.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
