Through this grant opportunity, solicits competitive applications from eligible organizations for assistance for local emergency response training (alert) grant funds

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) under the Interagency Hazardous Materials Public Sector Training and Planning Grants program (CFDA 20.703) will fund enhanced training and safety initiatives for local emergency responders. The key deliverables include improved first responder training, with a focus on safety when transporting hazardous materials like crude oil, ethanol, and other flammable liquids. The award recipient, the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), will leverage its expertise and nationwide network to provide training and education programs that will benefit emergency responders in the grantee's local area, and potentially have wider nationwide impact through web-based training. No subrecipient activities were identified in the grant details provided.

Properly planned and maintained training programs are essential to ensuring that emergency responders who receive training under the grant will have the ability to protect nearby persons, property, and the environment from the effects of accidents or incidents involving the transportation of hazardous material in accordance with existing regulations or national fire protection standards for competence of responders to accidents and incidents involving hazardous materials. Deliverables/expected outcomes: improved 1ST responder training, and in particular enhanced safety in transportation of crude oil, ethanol, and other flammable liquids. Intended beneficiary: grantee local area; web-based training may have nationwide benefits. Subrecipient activities: no known subrecipients.