Federal Highway Administration Opens $24.1M for 2024 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund
Announcement Type: Notice of Funding Opportunity
Opportunity: 2024 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund (TTPSF)
Overview and Eligible Uses: TTPSF’s goal is to reduce deaths or serious injuries in transportation-related crashes in Tribal areas. The FHWA will prioritize projects that incorporate safety into existing infrastructure. Strategic safety planning, data collection and analysis, and the implementation of safety projects are objectives that contribute to achievement of the TTPSF goal. Successful TTPSF projects leverage resources, encourage partnerships, result from strategic safety planning, and have the data to support the applicants’ approach in addressing the prevention and reduction of death or serious injuries in transportation-related crashes.
Projects submitted as part of a grant application must be consistent with a transportation safety plan and must:
(i) correct or improve a hazardous road location or feature, or
(ii) address a highway safety problem (23 U.S.C. § 202(e), 148(a)(4)).
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.
FHWA has identified four award categories for the purposes of awarding funds under this program through FY 2026:
safety plans,
data assessment, improvement, and analysis activities,
systemic roadway departure countermeasures, and
infrastructure improvements and other eligible activities as listed in 23 U.S.C. § 148(a)(4).
Amount: This grant opportunity is expected to result in the distribution of up to $24,098,400 in FY 2024.
Award Type: Grant
Eligible Applicants: Native American Tribal Governments (federally recognized)
Key Dates: Applications for FY 2024 are open now, and due no later than 11:59 p.m. EST on January 15, 2024. There will be a webinar reviewing the funding opportunity on October 3, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. ET to 3:30 p.m. ET.
Key Links:
Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund
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