FY 2025 Community Safety Grant (CSG) | 693JK325NF0012

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The FY 2025 Community Safety Grant (CSG) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity offered by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The program is aimed at strengthening community readiness for hazardous materials (hazmat) accidents and incidents by funding organizations that help improve preparedness and response capabilities. In practical terms, the grant supports efforts that make communities better able to prevent, manage, and recover from transportation-related hazmat events, with an emphasis on improving public safety outcomes tied to hazardous materials handling and movement.

The core purpose of the CSG is to fund activities that enhance the ability of communities to prepare for and respond to hazmat incidents. A key example specifically highlighted in the opportunity description is training for state and local enforcement personnel who are responsible for enforcing requirements related to the safe transportation of hazardous materials. This suggests a strong focus on compliance-oriented training and operational readiness, including building the knowledge and skills of frontline personnel who may inspect, regulate, or otherwise oversee hazmat transportation and safety requirements. While the opportunity is framed around nonprofit missions, the stated outcomes indicate broader community-level benefits, meaning projects should be designed to translate organizational expertise into measurable improvements in readiness and response.

The expected deliverable or outcome is improved accident readiness in communities. That outcome can reasonably include better-trained enforcement and response personnel, improved coordination practices, stronger awareness of hazmat transportation rules, and increased preparedness to handle incidents effectively. The notice also indicates that the intended beneficiaries may include constituencies nationwide, particularly where the nonprofit grantee has a national footprint or serves a broad membership base. In other words, while projects may be implemented locally or regionally, PHMSA anticipates that the knowledge, training materials, or capacity-building benefits could extend beyond a single jurisdiction depending on the applicant organization and how it disseminates results.

Eligibility is fairly broad across nonprofit and higher education categories. Eligible applicants include nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (also other than institutions of higher education), public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and private institutions of higher education. The funding instrument is a grant, and the activity categories associated with the opportunity include Transportation as well as Employment, Labor and Training, which aligns with the program emphasis on training and workforce capability improvements connected to hazmat safety and enforcement.

From a funding standpoint, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $100,000, with an expectation of approximately 7 awards. The opportunity is identified by Funding Opportunity Number 693JK325NF0012 and is associated with CFDA number 20.703. The posting indicates a creation date of January 15, 2025, and an original application closing date of January 23, 2025, which implies a short turnaround window between posting and deadline. Finally, the notice states there are no known subrecipient activities, suggesting PHMSA does not anticipate a pass-through structure for this program and expects the primary awardee to carry out the work directly rather than distributing grant funds to subrecipients.

• The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admin in the employment, labor and training, transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2025 Community Safety Grant (CSG)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.703.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-15.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-23. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $100,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 7 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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