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PHMSA Announces Pipeline Safety Information Grants to Communities

By John Erickson posted 05-24-2018 11:42 AM

  
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has announced that it is now accepting applications for Pipeline Safety Information Grants to Communities: Technical Assistance Grants (TAG). 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; development of 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 TAG awards, including final reports from completed grant projects, is available at http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/tag.

Applications must be submitted by Jun 22, 2018. For details on how to apply go to https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=305499. For questions on this article, please contact John Erickson of APGA staff by phone at 202-464-0834 or by email at jerickson@apga.org.

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