Deadline: 9-Sep-21
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking applications for the 2021 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund to emphasize the development of strategic Tribal Transportation Safety Plans using a data-driven process as a means for Tribes to determine how transportation safety needs will be addressed in Tribal communities.
Tribal Transportation Safety Plans are a tool used to identify risk factors that lead to serious injury or death and organize various entities to strategically reduce risk.
Projects submitted must be consistent with a transportation safety plan, and must correct or improve a hazardous road location or feature or address a highway safety problem.
Projects must be identified through a data-driven process.
The TTPSF is focused on improving transportation safety but many TTPSF projects also address community health, livability, sustainability, transportation alternatives, and climate change.
Priorities
The following list shows the prioritization of countermeasures that will be considered in this category:
- Horizontal alignment warning signs required of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD);
- Horizontal alignment warning signs of the MUTCD when additional risk factors exist;
- Delineators in curves;
- First installation, including design, of center line and edge line markings up to 300 feet approaching and through a horizontal curve;
- Edge line rumble stripes, including narrow longitudinal rumble strips, up to 300 feet approaching and through horizontal curves;
- Center line rumble stripes up to 300 feet approaching and through horizontal curves;
- Delineators in tangent;
- First installation, including design, of center line and edge line markings on tangent sections of roadway;
- Edge line rumble strips or rumble stripes on tangent sections with at least three feet of paved shoulder;
- Narrow longitudinal rumble stripes on tangent sections with less than three feet of paved shoulder;
- Center line rumble strips on tangent sections with at least 22 feet of pavement width;
- Mitigation of roadside hazards to establish or widen clear zones in horizontal curves including clearing and grubbing, removal of fixed objects, and replacement with crashworthy devices; and
- Mitigation of roadside hazards to establish or widen clear zones along tangent sections of roadway including clearing and grubbing, removal of fixed objects, and replacement with crashworthy devices but excluding roadside slope flattening.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: 10,100,000
- Award Ceiling: $10,100,000
- Award Floor: $1
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants for TTPSF discretionary grants are federally recognized Tribes identified on the list of “Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs”.
- Other entities may partner with a Tribal government to submit an application, but the eligible applicant must be a federally recognized Indian Tribe.
- A Tribe may submit more than one application; however, only one project may be included in each application.
- However, to be competitive, the applicant should demonstrate the extent to which the previously funded project or projects has met estimated project schedules and budget, as well as the ability to realize the outcomes for previous awards.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334634
