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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Grant Program

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries. This program awards grants to States to to enforce regulations, conduct roadside inspections, review motor carriers' compliance and prevent unsafe motor carrier practices.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • States agree to specific safety performance objectives, measures, and strategies that link to agency goals but independent reviews have found that oversight of grantees needs improvement to ensure that States are making progress toward their performance goals.
  • The effectiveness of essential program compliance/enforcement interventions is evaluated on an annual basis to inform strategy development and resource allocation decisions.
  • MCSAP does not currently have a cost-based efficiency measure for tracking improvements to program efficiency.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Creating a MCSAP annual performance evaluation process that includes setting goals for and tracking the accomplishments of states, Divisions, and Service Centers.
  • Enhancing grant management oversight to include new delegations of authority, conducting regular financial reviews and improving overall processes across all aspects of grant development.
  • Developing an efficiency measure that tracks improvements in program efficiency.

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