Assistance program
State Damage Prevention Program Grants
$12.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 20.720
- What it does
- The PHMSA State Damage Prevention Program fosters improved damage prevention programs by supporting projects such as enforcement of state excavation damage prevention laws, stakeholder education about digging safely, technologies to improve efficiencies, and other related excavation safety initiatives.
- Who benefits
- State Government, U.S. Territory and possessions would receive the ultimate benefit from this program.
- Who applies
- State (including U.S. Territory or possessions) authority designated by the Governor is eligible to apply for a grant as long an agency within the State (including U.S. Territory or possessions) has an annual Section 60105 (49 U.S.C.) certification or Section 60106 (49 U.S.C.) agreement in effect with PHMSA. If a State (including U.S. Territory or possessions) does not have a certification or agreement with PHMSA, then no State (including U.S. Territory or possessions) authority can receive a grant.
- Authorized by
- Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006
- Public Law 112-90
- Public Law 114-183
- Public Law 107-355; 49 U.S.C. § 60130
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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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments