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PHMSA Pipeline Safety Program One Call Grant

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

20.721

Program objective

To provide funding to State agencies in promoting damage prevention, including changes with their State underground damage prevention laws, related compliance activities, training and public education.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    PHMSA received 27 applications for the “PHMSA Pipeline Safety Program One Call Grant’ for CY 2016 totaling $1.22 million dollars PHMSA received 27 applications for the “PHMSA Pipeline Safety Program One Call Grant’ for CY 2016 totaling $1,018,271.

  2. 2017

    PHMSA received 26 applications for the “PHMSA Pipeline Safety Program One Call Grant” for calendar year 2017 totaling $1,292,778.

  3. 2018

    For FY18 the program provided $915,000 in funding for personnel costs related to One Call enforcement and $89,000 in funding for 811 education projects.

  4. 2019

    Excavation Damage per 1000 excavation tickets have downward trend.
    2017 – 2.75 per thousand 2018 – 2.67 per thousand 2019 – 2.55 per thousand

  5. 2020

    Excavation Damage per 1000 excavation tickets have downward trend.
    2017 – 2.75 per thousand 2018 – 2.67 per thousand 2019 – 2.55 per thousand 2020 - 2.50 per thousand

  6. 2021

    These awards support the PHMSA safety mission of protecting people and the environment by helping prevent excavation damage, which is a leading cause of pipeline incidents, and reducing the environmental consequences of methane emissions associated with these incidents.

  7. 2022

    The Pipeline Safety One-Call Grants are designed to improve various aspects of states’ excavation damage prevention programs, including One-Call notification systems, notification service quality, One-Call record retention, state investigations of excavation damage to pipelines, enforcement against violators of state law, underground facility-locating capabilities, training of involved personnel, and public outreach and education. PHMSA received 27 eligible applications requesting a total of $1,429,475 for 36 projects. Several of these applications requested funding for more than one project. The available One-Call Grant funding for FY 2022 is $1,108,713. To utilize all available funding and ensure consistent treatment of all projects recommended for award, PHMSA recommends funding be distributed pro rata: that each project rated “Highly Recommended” be funded at approximately 78 percent of the requested amount and each project rated “Acceptable” be funded at approximately 58 percent of the requested amount.

  8. 2023

    One Call Program grants may be used to support initiatives to further promote efforts specifically for damage prevention, including one-call legislation, related compliance activities, training and public education. These may include for example, areas such as: Compliance - compliance monitoring and enforcement, legal assistance with enforcement actions, development of compliance statistics, procurement of computers and other equipment to support ongoing enforcement programs. Performance - development of one-call center statistics, one-call membership initiatives, procurement of one-call center computers and other equipment. Communication and training - communication improvements, development and/or conduct of state-provided training programs, development and/or distribution of promotional items or materials, informational mailings, and advertisements, damage prevention awareness campaigns, and public service announcements.

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.

Pipeline Safety Regulations, 49 CFR 190, 191, 192, 193, 195, 198 and 199. Individual copies available from the Transportation Safety Institute, PHMSA Training and Qualification, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73125. "Guidelines for States Participating in the Pipeline Safety Program." Also available on-line at http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title49/49tab_02.tpl

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