Assistance program
Technical Assistance Grants
$13.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 20.710
- What it does
- Advancement of pipeline safety through the funding of local communities and organizations for technical assistance related to pipeline safety issues. Technical assistance is defined as engineering, research, and other scientific analysis of pipeline safety issues, including the promotion of public participation on technical pipeline safety issues.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include cities, towns, villages, counties, parishes, townships, and similar governmental subdivisions, or consortiums of such subdivisions; Indian Tribes; and groups of individuals (not including for-profit entities) with proposed projects relating to the safety of pipeline facilities in local communities, other than facilities regulated under Public Law 93-153 (43 U.S.C. § 1651 et seq.). States, universities, and for-profit entities are not eligible for the TAG program.
- Authorized by
- Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act of 2006
- Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011
- Protecting Our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016
- Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002
- Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2020.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments