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Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety - Emergency Preparedness Grants

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's Emergency Preparedness Grants program makes grants to local hazardous materials response agencies to identify hazmat threats in their jurisdiction and to train first responders in dealing with those threats.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Emergency Preparedness grants program is making significant progress in meeting its long-term and annual goals. The program has specific, readily understood, and measurable long term and annual goals which are focused on reducing the consequences caused by hazmat incidents on the nation's transportation system.
  • Grantees are not held accountable for performance results. Grantees are committed to reducing the number and consequences of hazardous materials incidents, but local emergency planning is not tied directly to the program's long-term hazardous materials incident goals.
  • The program is not subject to regular, independent evaluations of sufficient scope. Currently, the agency relies on achieving their performance goals to assess performance information.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Schedule a comprehensive program evaluation in FY 2007.
  • Working with State program partners to identify linkages between program's performance goals and grantees' performance goals.
  • In conjunction with the Hazmat program program evaluation, the Emergency Preparedness Grant program will be reviewed by FY2009. A program evaluation will be conducted in FY 2009

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