Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
Department Of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core Federal-aid program with the purpose to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State-owned roads and roads on tribal land. This Assistance Listing 20.272 created in August 2025 was included in the previous ALN 20.205, please refer to former ALN 20.205 for FY24 and FY25 financial obligations. The new Assistance Listing 20.272 will be utilized by DOT at the start of FY 20
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Helps state and local governments improve highway safety to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries. Provides funding for safety projects on all public roads, including rural and tribal areas.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Provides financial and technical assistance, guidance, and a regulatory framework to State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to establish and meet safety performance targets, thereby improving highway safety and reducing fatalities and serious injuries on public roads.
Who Is Eligible?
Industries: public administration, transportation
Region: US States
Other Criteria: State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), responsible for establishing and reporting safety targets to carry out the HSIP, focused on improving highway safety and reducing fatalities and serious injuries on public roads
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Develop a Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
- Identify key safety needs
- Submit HSIP application to FHWA
- 🌐Application Portal
- https://highways.dot.gov/safety/hsip
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 🔄Intake Type
- rolling
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424A (Budget Information - Non-Construction)
- SF-424B (Assurances)
- Project Narrative
- Budget Narrative
- indirect cost rate agreement
- IRB approval letter
- environmental review
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- costs associated with improving highway safety
- funding for safety improvement projects
- data-driven safety initiatives
- 🚫Ineligible Expenses
- costs not related to highway safety improvements
- administrative costs not directly tied to projects
- 📏Expense Caps
- Administrative costs capped at 15%
- 💳Payment Model
- reimbursement
- ⏪Retroactive Expenses Eligible
- No
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
- 🔀Matching Required
- No
- 📊Matching Ratio
- 0%
- 📚Stacking Rules
- No restrictions on combining with other funding sources mentioned.
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- annual
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- performance progress report
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- OMB Uniform Guidance Single Audit if the recipient expends $750,000 or more in federal awards
- 📢Branding Requirements
- Acknowledgment of federal funding is required
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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This program offers funding up to $245,000,000 (minimum $245,000,000).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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