FY26 Transportation Emergency Response Training

The Transportation Emergency Response Training grant is a federal discretionary funding opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Federal Railroad Administration. The opportunity is associated with Assistance Listing 20.329, Railroad Safety, and uses a grant as its funding instrument. The official Grants.gov opportunity number is FR-SEC-26-001. The notice was posted on August 13, 2026. The program is focused on transportation and railroad safety, particularly the preparation of emergency response personnel to respond effectively to incidents involving railroad operations and tank cars. The purpose of the grant is to fund training for emergency responders and related personnel. The source specifically identifies emergency responders, emergency medical technicians, and police and fire personnel as examples of the intended training audience. Training may address tank car nomenclature, railroad operations, and other related matters that are useful in mitigating railroad emergencies. The source does not provide a more detailed list of allowable or prohibited expenditures, indirect cost restrictions, subaward limitations, or other spending rules. Accordingly, no additional allowable-use or restriction requirements should be inferred beyond the stated purpose of supporting transportation emergency response training. Estimated total program funding is 150000 dollars, with one award expected. The stated award ceiling is 150000 dollars. Although Grants.gov displays an award floor of zero dollars, this value is treated as missing under the applicable data-entry rules rather than as a substantive minimum award. No cost sharing or matching is required. The source does not identify a period of performance, a multi-year funding structure, separate funding tiers, or a per-year award limitation. Eligibility is exceptionally restricted. Grants.gov classifies eligible applicants as Others and directs applicants to the additional eligibility information for clarification. That clarification states that the only entity permitted to apply for this grant is the Foundation for Chemistry Research and Initiatives. Therefore, this is not an open competition for all nonprofits, governmental entities, educational institutions, businesses, or other organizations. The source does not state a separate geographic eligibility requirement, so no nationwide, state, territory, county, city, or other geographic service-area designation can be verified from the provided material. The opportunity has a current and original application closing date of August 18, 2026. The notice was posted August 13, 2026, and Grants.gov presents an Apply option, indicating that applications are currently being accepted as of the August 14, 2026 analysis date. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement is identified in the provided source. The source also does not identify specific application questions, required attachments, narrative components, evaluation criteria, scoring factors, or a separate question-and-answer deadline. No recurring schedule or indication that the opportunity will be offered annually, biennially, quarterly, or on another recurring basis is stated. The source does not provide an award announcement date, notification date, project start date, or performance period. The Grants.gov archive date is September 17, 2026, but that date is an archive date rather than an application or award milestone. For technical difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, applicants are directed to the GrantSolutions Help Desk at help@grantsolutions.gov. The listed telephone numbers are 1.866.577.0771 and 202.401.5282, and the stated hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET. No named individual program contact is provided in the supplied source.

Align the proposed training directly with emergency response needs involving tank car nomenclature, railroad operations, and related matters useful to mitigate railroad emergencies.