Community Safety Grants

The Hazardous Materials Community Safety Grants (CS) : to conduct national outreach and training programs to assist communities in preparing for and responding to accidents and incidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials, including Class 3 flammable liquids by rail; and train State and local personnel responsible for enforcing the safe transportation of hazardous materials, including Class 3 flammable liquids. This Assistance Listing 20.711 created in July 2025 was included in the previous ALN 20.703, please refer to former ALN 20.703 for FY24 and FY25 financial obligations. The new Assistance Listing 20.711 will be utilized by DOT at the start of FY 2026.

Public nonprofit institution/organization, Private nonprofit institution/organization

PHMSA will review applications based upon merit, including the clarity of the project narrative and reasonableness of cost as described in the budget narrative. PHMSA reserves the right to make adjustments that are beneficial to the goals of the current FY CS Grant program. PHMSA Federal agency representatives will evaluate the grant applications. Each grant application will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria listed below. Special emphasis will be placed on reviewing whether or not the application has a coherent project narrative that follows the outline of this funding announcement, and whether or not the costs described in the budget narrative appear to be necessary, reasonable, allowable and allocable. Applications will be evaluated as exceptional, acceptable, or unacceptable.

Match: none required (federal program listing). This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. The statutory formula does not apply to this assistance listing. The matching requirements do not apply to this assistance listing. MOE requirements do not apply to this assistance listing.

Fiscal year 2024: Lithium Battery Inspection training, Crude Oil Transportation Training, Training videos. Fiscal year 2025: Roadside inspection training, training videos, 10-webinar series on hazardous materials response, CPRt tabletop exercises.