Program Summary and Objectives

• Federal Agency:  agency: department of transportation
  office: federal motor carrier safety administration (fmcsa)
• Program Website: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov.
• Authorization: Social Security online verification; covert and overt monitoring operations for third party testers and State examiners; automated knowledge tests; conviction automation projects; examiner and third party tester education and training ., Public Law 102-240; The Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2006, Public Law 109-59; the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century of 1998, Public Law 105-178.
• Headquarters: Office of Safety Administration 1200 New Jersey Ave, S.E., Washington, District of Columbia 20590 Phone: 202-366-9699

To identify motor carriers responsible for the safety of commercial motor vehicles and monitor the safety fitness of those motor carriers by linking the vehicle registration process to safety performance monitoring and enforcement. Furthermore, causing the carrier to improve their safety performance through an improvement process, and where necessary, the application of registration sanctions.

Examples of Projects Funded

Not Applicable.

Program Accomplishments

Fiscal Year 2008: 47 States plus the District of Columbia have signed grant agreements with the FMCSA to implement the PRISM program, including: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, NH, NJ, NC, NE, NH, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY. On average it takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 years for a State to acquire the necessary hardware and software required to build, populate, and maintain the necessary DMV PRISM data files to fully realize the potential of PRISM. Twenty-nine States are presently PRISM capable, with four states in the process of implementation and nine states and DC committed to implement the program at their discretion sometime in the future. PRISM states that actively exercise the ... »read moreir authority to deny, revoke, and or suspend a carriers registration include: AL, AR, CT, GA, IA, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NC, NE, NH, NM, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, and WV. Fiscal Year 2009: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2010: No Current Data Available

Program Obligations
(as compiled by Subsidyscope)

Direct Expenditures Over Time