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Fiscal Year 2012 MCSAP High Priority Grant Awards
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Purpose: To support, enrich, or evaluate State CMV safety programs and to accomplish these objectives: implement, promote, and maintain national programs to improve CMV safety; increase compliance with CMV safety regulations; increase public awareness about CMV safety; provide education on CMV safety and related issues, and demonstrate new safety related technologies.
Authorization: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, Pub. L. No.109–59, § 4107(a), 119 Stat. 1144, 1719–20 (2005), as amended by SAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110-244, §4101(a), §4107, 122 Stat. 1572, 1616, as amended by Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, Pub. L. No.112-141, §§ 32603(a), 32603(d), 126 Stat. 405, 807, 808 (2012).
Statue: 49 U.S.C. §§ 31104(a), 31104(k) (2006), as amended.
Grantees: States, local governments, US Territories & Commonwealths, the District of Columbia, & organizations representing Government agencies that employ & train qualified officers & employees in coordination with State motor vehicle safety agencies.
Type of Grant: Discretionary
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 20.218
Match: 20%; no match is required for grants awarded in support of public information/education/outreach activities.
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Descriptions
| Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center | $483,001 | Develop and test a new tablet-based integrated system that will incorporate all existing inspection data collected using the State’s eCrash reporting system. | Alabama Department of Public Safety | $618,404 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | Alaska Department of Transportation | $257,661 | Multi-jurisdictional CMV safety enforcement and inspections with particular emphasis on rural roads | Colorado State Patrol | $748,110 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles | $300,000 | Increased motor coach inspections, high-crash corridor enforcement, distracted driving and seatbelt enforcement | Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles | $280,000 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | Georgia Department of Public Safety | $709,837 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | Idaho State Police | $73,883 | CMV safety education & outreach to teen drivers on the dangers of distracted driving | Indiana State Police | $772,120 | Rural roads safety enforcement | Kansas Highway Patrol | $423,200 | Troopers on Patrol for Safety (TOPS) enforcement & education | Kentucky State Police | $600,000 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education and off-peak enforcement that will focus on driver fatigue as a crash-causation factor | Massachusetts State Police | $272,247 | Regional training academy for CMV safety training and targeted motor coach and passenger van enforcement with particular emphasis on distracted driving | Nebraska State Patrol | $42,176 | Post-crash inspection training for enforcement officers | New Jersey Department of Transportation | $624,000 | Increased motor coach and hazardous materials inspections | New York Department of Transportation | $225,180 | Create, train & equip new motor coach safety enforcement unit | Pennsylvania State Police | $176,960 | Increased level III and level V motor coach inspections | South Carolina Department of Public Safety | $1,563,223 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education, coordinate a multi-jurisdictional approach to hazardous materials risk assessment and management and develop a data clearinghouse for use by both industry participants and the general public | Tennessee Department of Safety | $185,880 | Increased motor coach inspections and public education, CMV safety technology in partnership with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), increased CMV enforcement in high crash corridors | Texas Department of Public Safety | $1,440,000 | Develop a tablet-compatible version of existing data collection platforms. | Washington State Patrol | $404,228 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | West Virginia Public Service Commission | $198,400 | Motor coach inspections, increased CMV enforcement on both rural roads and targeted sections of interstate |
State subtotal: | $10,398,510 | | | Local Jurisdictions | Nevada: Henderson Police Department | $116,057 | High visibility CMV safety enforcement in work zones | Nevada: Reno Police Department | $194,014 | High visibility CMV enforcement, work zone safety and officer training | Texas: Austin Police Department | $1,173,677 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | Texas: Fort Worth Police Department | $287,426 | Continue its CMV and motor coach safety enforcement program | Texas: Grand Prairie Police Department | $184,761 | Targeted enforcement, outreach to teens on the dangers of distracted driving | Texas: Houston Police Department | $587,510 | CMV, motor coach and hazardous materials enforcement with emphasis on distracted driving | Texas: San Antonio Police Department | $740,372 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) enforcement & education | Utah: Salt Lake City Police Department | $177,655 | Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) evaluation | Local jurisdiction subtotal: | $3,461,472 | | | Other Entities | Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance | $760,306 | The Guardian Magazine; Operation Air Brake program education, outreach, awareness training and analysis; Operation Safe Driver program education, outreach, awareness training and analysis | DRIVE SMART Virginia | $379,712 | Provide safety awareness public education and outreach to teen drivers on the dangers of distracted driving | Other entity subtotal: | $1,140,018 | |
TOTAL | $15,000,000 | |
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