Deadline: 13-Apr-22
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admin (PHMSA) has launched an open call for the 2022 Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training (ALERT) Grant Program.
Properly planned and maintained training programs are essential to ensuring that emergency responders who receive training under the grant will have the ability to protect nearby persons, property, and the environment from the effects of accidents or incidents involving the transportation of hazardous material in accordance with existing regulations or National Fire Protection standards for competence of responders to accidents and incidents involving hazardous materials.
Incidents involving the transportation of flammable liquids by rail pose special risks to emergency responders and the public. The ALERT Grant Program is designed to train local emergency responders to recognize and respond to rail transportation flammable liquid emergencies. Nonprofit organizations, representing regional public-private partnerships, provide in person or web-based training on response activities related to the transportation of crude oil, ethanol, and other flammable liquids by rail.
Funding Information
- PHMSA anticipates $500,000 will be made available to support the ALERT grant program. The expected amounts of individual federal awards for organizations range from $100,000 to $250,000.
- The period of performance is a minimum of twelve (12) months from the effective date of the award. An applicant may request a period of performance up to 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The FY 2022 ALERT grant is open to nonprofit organizations representing regional publicprivate partnerships.
- The nonprofit organizations must be able to provide hazardous materials direct or web- based training to individuals with statutory responsibility to respond to accidents and incidents involving hazardous materials.
- The training will focus on response activities related to the transportation of crude oil, ethanol, other flammable liquids, and LNG by rail.
- For the purposes of the ALERT grants program, a nonprofit organization is a business that has been granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) because it furthers a social cause and provides a public benefit.
- Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible applicants. "For profit" organizations are not eligible applicants for the ALERT grant program.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338402