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High-Priority Program: Commercial Motor Vehicle (HP-CMV) - FY 2025

Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation
CFDA: 20.237
Federal FON: FM-MHP-25-001
Office: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Grants Management Office (GMO)
Multipart Grant: No
Next Due: 03/07/2025 (Application)
Solicitation Date: 01/08/2025
   
Match Required: No
Actual Funds: $46,600,000 (Estimated)
Award Range: $2,000,000 (Max)
Number of Awards: 30 (Estimated)
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to support innovative and impactful projects that advance the funding agency's mission to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. Funding is available for the support of safety and compliance projects that improve safety and compliance with the funding agency's regulations at the state, local government, and national levels.

The objectives of this program are to:

  • Support, enrich, and evaluate CMV safety programs
  • Target unsafe driving of CMVs and non-CMVs in areas identified as high-risk crash corridors
  • Promote the safe and secure movement of hazardous materials
  • Improve safety of transportation of goods and passengers in foreign commerce
  • Demonstrate new technologies to improve CMV safety
  • Support participation in the Performance Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) program
  • Support safety data improvement projects
  • Increase public awareness and education on CMV safety
  • Otherwise improve CMV safety

Applicants are encouraged to describe how their proposed project addresses one or several of the following national priorities:

  • Enforcement and compliance with safety regulations; the following activities and programmatic areas will be prioritized:
    • Traffic enforcement (TE) in high-crash areas
    • CMV safety on rural roads
    • Passenger safety initiatives
    • Human trafficking
    • Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse (DACH) violations
    • Drug Interdiction Assistance Program (DIAP) training
    • Increased state investigations
  • Technologies to improve CMV safety through enforcement
  • Lead Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) state agencies' compatibility
  • Public awareness and education
  • Skill performance evaluation
  • PRISM
  • State safety data quality (SSDQ)

Eligible costs may include those in the following budget categories:

  • Personnel
  • Fringe benefits
  • Travel
  • Equipment
  • Supplies
  • Contractual
  • Other costs that do not fit within any of the other object class categories
  • Indirect costs

Optional webinars are scheduled for this program. Refer to the Application section for details.

Last Updated: January 09, 2025

Eligibility Notes:

Eligible applicants are:

  • State government agencies, including those of the District of Columbia and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Local governments, including counties, cities, townships, and special districts
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
  • Institutions of higher education
  • 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations

Only state agencies, including those of the District of Columbia and the territories, are eligible for funding related to the Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) national priority.

The funding agency strongly encourages the participation of local law enforcement agencies, local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, political jurisdictions, and other eligible entities in CMV safety projects either directly as applicants or in partnership with lead agencies of the funding agency's Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP), known in eCivis Grants Network as US1833. Non-law enforcement applicants must certify compliance with the conditions detailed on pages 19-20 of the NOFA file.

No more than four projects may be included in an application.

Applications will only be accepted for new awards. Applications for renewal or supplementation of existing awards are not eligible.

For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.

Previous award recipients include:

  • California Highway Patrol (CA)
  • City of Dallas (TX)
  • Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (D.C.)
  • Hawai'i Department of Transportation (HI)
  • Kansas State University (KS)

Refer to the Award file for additional information on previous award recipients.

Eligible Applicants:
Local Government
Academic Institutions
Consortia
Native American Tribe
Non Profits
State Government
Application Notes:

Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on March 7, 2025.

Prior to submitting an application, new applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the funding agency's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to discuss the Title VI Plan requirements to avoid delays in the approval process. To begin this coordination, applicants must contact [email protected].

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

Applications must include:

  • SF 424
  • SF 424A
  • SF 424B
  • Grants.gov lobbying form
  • SF LLL (if applicable)
  • Key contacts form
  • Attachment form
  • Indirect cost rate agreement (if applicable)
  • Project narrative (35 pages max)
  • Budget narrative
  • Title VI Program Assurance
  • Title VI Program Compliance Plan

Applications must be formatted on standard-sized pages with no smaller than one-inch margins on all sides and must use 12-point Times New Roman font for all text, including tables and graphs. Applications must be submitted in a format readable by Microsoft Word or Excel, or in text-searchable .pdf format, as applicable.

The following are required in order to submit an application:

  • Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
  • SAM (System for Award Management) registration
  • SPOC (state Single Point of Contact) notification

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam. Applicants in states participating in the SPOC program must contact the relevant SPOC listed in the SPOC file before applying.

Optional webinars will be held for this program as follows:

December 18, 2024
1:00 p.m. ET
Registration: usdot.zoomgov.com

January 22, 2025
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Registration: usdot.zoomgov.com

Applications will be evaluated according to the following merit evaluation criteria:

  • Technical merit criteria
  • Budget cost analysis criteria
  • Program-specific criteria
  • Past performance criteria
  • Other review information

Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.

Match Required: No
Actual Funds: $46,600,000 (Estimated)
Award Range: $2,000,000 (Max)
Number of Awards: 30 (Estimated)
Match Notes:

Matching funds are not required for this program.

Funding Notes:

Approximately $46.6 million is expected to be available to support approximately 30 grants or cooperative agreements of up to $2 million each through this program.

Funds will be provided on a reimbursement basis.

The project period will be the federal fiscal year in which the award is made plus two additional fiscal years.

Funds may not be used for:

  • Costs incurred outside the project period
  • Salary-related bonus payments

For FY 2024, a total of $54,126,352 was distributed via 58 awards ranging from $54,226 to $2 million through this program. For FY 2022, a total of $42,944,692 was recommended to be distributed. Refer to the Award file for details.

Contacts:

Programmatic Application Concerns Contact:

Brendan Shaughnessy
(202) 653-8207
FMCSAHPGRANTS@dot.gov

Financial Application Concerns Contact:

Tiffany Boyd
(202) 948-8780
Tiffany.Boyd@dot.gov

Agency Address
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Grants Management Office; MC-BG
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, West Building
Washington, D.C. 20590

Contact Notes:

Questions should be directed to the appropriate program contact.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.

Files:
Award File: US16529_Award_FY2025.pdf (1.2 Mb)
NOFA File: US16529_NOFA_FY2025.pdf (618.8 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US16529_BudgetNarrativeTemplate_FY2025.docx (49.8 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US16529_ProgramAssurance_FY2025.pdf (261.5 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US16529_CompliancePlanChecklist_FY2025.pdf (239.7 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US16529_Webinar_FY2025.pdf (201.8 Kb)
Federal Forms:
SPOC (67.7 Kb)
File Notes:

The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The BudgetNarrativeTemplate file contains a template applicants are strongly encouraged to use to aid with developing a responsive budget narrative. The ProgramAssurance file contains the Title VI Program Assurance template required for submission. The CompliancePlanChecklist file contains the checklist applicants must use to format their Title VI Program Compliance Plan. The Webinar file contains information regarding webinars scheduled for this program. The Award file contains information on previous award recipients though this program and the High Priority Program: Innovative Technology Deployment (HP-ITD) program, known in eCivis Grants Network as US6259. The SPOC file contains information on the state Single Point of Contact program.

January 9, 2025
Full solicitation information for this program has been released and attached as the NOFA file. All sections have been updated accordingly.

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