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NHTSA Section 403 Discretionary Grants and Cooperative Agreements
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Provide technical and financial assistance to State and local government agencies, for-profit and non-profit organizations, educational institutions, hospitals, and other persons (as defined in Title 1 USC Chapter (1)) in support of highway safety research and development, special studies, educational and public awareness projects related to or involving: 1). Activities, including demonstration projects to study vehicle, highway, driver, passenger, motorcyclist, bicyclist, and pedestrian characteristics; 2). Emergency medical services communications and transportation of the injured; 3). Human behavioral factors such as driver education, impaired driving, and distracted driving; 4). Evaluation of the effectiveness of countermeasures to increase highway and traffic safety, including occupant protection and alcohol- and drug-impaired driving technologies and initiatives; 5). Development of technologies to detect drug impaired drivers; 6). Research, evaluation, and identification of best practices related to driver education programs (including driver education curricula, instructor training and certification, program administration, and delivery mechanisms) and recommendations for harmonizing driver education and multistage graduated licensing systems; 7). Effect of State laws on any aspects, activities, or programs described above.
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Not available and complete. During Fiscal Year 2016, A total of 15 discretionary cooperative agreements were awarded from 19 applications received. Accomplishments included: Provided assistance to the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) to train 174 participants on how to establish new DWI Courts, provided assistance to support refresher training for 187 participants, provided assistance to support 76 participants in receiving regional DWI Court trainings, conducted quarterly webinars, support 4 Academy Courts in educating judges on DWI Courts, and presented at dozens of conferences, and state meetings.
Provided assistance to the National Traffic Law Center to conducted over 75 training courses for prosecutors, provided direct technical assistance to 558 prosecutors, provided website for DWI prosecutors that had 513,490 web hits, 500,000 of those accessed.
Assisted the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) EMS for Children Program. The program supports a 16-month Cooperative Agreement with the National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials (NASEMSO) to help build and promote the national EMS system. The Grantee provides national leadership to help define and drive the future of EMS; develops resources for State EMS offices; and, gives technical assistance to help States improve regional and local EMS services. NHTSA awarded cooperative agreements to the Florida Department of Transportation, and the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office to support Focus cities in their States with implementing education and enforcement components of their local Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Action Plan. Each State will identify State management processes and approaches that provide ongoing support for local communities to strategically address pedestrian and bicyclist safety with education and enforcement efforts.
Assisted the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) - with the promotion of priority highway safety programs, e.g. Click It Or Ticket and Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over; publication of articles in Police Chief Magazine to advance traffic safety, coordination with external organizations, e.g. American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) on aligned highway safety concerns, development of an updated Highway Safety Desk Book to provide law enforcement leaders with comprehensive information and strategies for responding to highway safety issues, hosting of conferences and meeting with a focus on highway safety and drug impaired driving interdiction.
In 2017, NHTSA assisted the Grantee with the development of “Youth Safety U.” This is a unique central online location where teens, educators, and parents can go to find resources and replicable evaluated programs to prevent underage drinking and driving in their communities.
States used these funds to conduct programmatic assessments. Assessments, based on programmatic guidelines, are conducted by a group of peers to assess their strengths, weaknesses, and to provide recommendations for enhancements. States also used funds to provide grants to sub-recipients to assist with the conduct of project proposals, conduct enforcement activities, and to collect and review crash data in order to conduct enforcement in areas where additional efforts are needed based on problem identification
CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION - The objective of this project is to create a workforce development program that will provide cybersecurity training needed to perform at functional levels within the automotive and heavy transportation industry. Graduates will be able to engage the Recipient’s members through participation in risk mitigation and response training and provide needed details to the Recipient and industry at large to rapidly provide needed intelligence regarding existing and emergent threats so the industry can respond and even proactively address cybersecurity issues.
DRIVER ALCOHOL DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SAFETY PROGRAM - The goal of the DADSS program is to research and develop alcohol detection technologies that are less intrusive than currently available ignition interlocks. Technologies that are integrated into vehicles may hold the greatest promise for widespread deployment. This program is focused on the research, development and testing of non-invasive breath and touch-based alcohol detection devices and subsequent hardware that shall result in one or more commercially viable devices that can be installed in vehicles.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
