U.S. Transportation Secretary Mineta Announces $8.53 Million In Grants to States, Territories to Improve Traffic Records

Topics:  Norman Y. Mineta

NHTSA
February 20, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, February 20, 2001
Contact: Faithia Robertson
Tel. No: 202-366-9550
NHTSA 12-01

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced that 41 States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands will receive grants totaling $8.53 million for improving data and traffic records systems.

All except the Virgin Islands will be receiving $191,450 implementation grants for fiscal 2001. They are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, American Samoa, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Northern Mariana Islands, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

To qualify for implementation grants, applicants are required to have a strategic plan for making improvements to their traffic records systems. They are also required to have traffic records coordinating committees in place to implement the strategic plan.

The Virgin Islands will be receiving a $106,200 initiation grant. It is in the process of developing a strategic plan for making traffic records system improvements but has not yet completed the plan.

All fifty states, four territories, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Bureau of Indian Affairs were eligible to apply for the grants.

This grant program was created as section 411 of title 23, United States Code, by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.