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Safe Streets and Roads for All
A USDOT competitive grant created to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries, awarded directly to local, regional, and Tribal governments. VerisGov maps the structure and keeps the moving parts current.
At a glance
- Program
- Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A), a roadway safety competitive grant program.
- Administering agency
- U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT).
- Statutory authority
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 24112. The IIJA provided $5 billion over five years.
- Funding mechanism
- Competitive discretionary grant awarded through a Notice of Funding Opportunity, in two categories: planning and demonstration grants, and implementation grants.
- Money flow
- USDOT awards grants directly to regional, local, and Tribal governments, bypassing state DOTs; grants generally require a non-federal match.
- Who has a stake
- Metropolitan planning organizations, counties, cities and towns, federally recognized Tribal governments, and the safety planning and engineering firms that support action plans.
What it is
Safe Streets and Roads for All is a competitive discretionary grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries. Its defining feature is that it funds the local level directly: regional, local, and Tribal governments are the eligible applicants, rather than money passing through state departments of transportation first. The program is built around the Safe System approach and the goal of zero roadway deaths.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act created the program and provided $5 billion for it over five years. As a discretionary program, USDOT publishes a Notice of Funding Opportunity, applicants submit proposals, and the Department selects awards. Funding is structured around two grant types: planning and demonstration grants that help a community develop or supplement a comprehensive safety action plan, and implementation grants that fund the projects and strategies identified in an existing action plan.
This two-stage design means a community typically establishes a safety action plan first, then returns for implementation funding to carry it out. Eligible applicants are metropolitan planning organizations, counties, cities and other units of local government, federally recognized Tribal governments, and multijurisdictional groups of these entities, which makes the program one of the most directly accessible federal safety funding sources for local agencies.
Key facts
- Program Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A), a roadway safety competitive grant program.
- Administering agency U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT).
- Statutory authority Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 24112. The IIJA provided $5 billion over five years.
- Funding mechanism Competitive discretionary grant awarded through a Notice of Funding Opportunity, in two categories: planning and demonstration grants, and implementation grants.
- Money flow USDOT awards grants directly to regional, local, and Tribal governments, bypassing state DOTs; grants generally require a non-federal match.
- Who has a stake Metropolitan planning organizations, counties, cities and towns, federally recognized Tribal governments, and the safety planning and engineering firms that support action plans.
What it funds
- Comprehensive safety action plans built on the Safe System approach
- Supplemental safety planning and roadway safety analysis
- Demonstration activities and temporary or quick-build safety projects
- Implementation of infrastructure and strategies identified in an existing action plan
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- Current and upcoming Notice of Funding Opportunity and application deadlines
- Whether an action plan is a prerequisite for implementation funding in the current round
- Federal share and matching requirements for each grant type
- Annual funding amounts and total awards made to date
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- U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
- Local, regional, and Tribal applicants
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Who can apply for SS4A grants?
Regional, local, and Tribal governments: metropolitan planning organizations, counties, cities and other local governments, federally recognized Tribes, and multijurisdictional groups. State DOTs are not the direct applicants.
What are the two types of SS4A grants?
Planning and demonstration grants, which fund developing or supplementing a comprehensive safety action plan and related demonstration activities, and implementation grants, which fund the projects and strategies in an existing action plan.
Do I need a safety action plan first?
Implementation grants are designed to carry out a project consistent with an existing comprehensive safety action plan, so communities generally establish a plan, often with planning grant support, before seeking implementation funding.
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