The Motorcycle Riders Foundation is pleased to announce the finalization of the National Highway Traffic Administration's (NHTSA) Motorcycle Safety Grant Program.
This program is the direct result of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, the supporting State Motorcycle Rights Organizations (SMRO's) and all the individual motorcyclists who have lobbied for this program over the past four years.
This program will provide much needed federal dollars from the Highway Trust Fund to the individual State's to help fund motorcycle safety programs. The grant program runs annually through 2009 and sets aside $25 million dollars to be spent at $100,000.00 a year per State.
In order to be eligible for the funds The States must meet one of six criteria and two the second and subsequent years. The criteria are that the applying State must have:
- A motorcycle rider training program
- A motorcycle awareness program
- A reduction in fatalities involving motorcycles
- An effective impaired driving program
- A reduction in fatalities and accidents involving impaired motorcyclists
- Use of fees collected from motorcyclist for motorcycle programs must be used for motorcycle programs
The MRF is also pleased that the final program retains all of the same intents set forth by Congress in the original legislation.
For a complete guide to the program and all of the specifics on how, where and when to apply visit: http://www.mrf.org/pdf/Grantguide.pdf
Ride With The Leaders by joining the MRF at http://www.mrf.org/join.php or call 1-202-546-0983.
(c)All Information contained in this release is copyrighted. Reproduction permitted with attribution. The Motorcycle Riders Foundation, incorporated in 1987, is a membership-based, national motorcyclists' rights organization headquartered in Washington, DC. The first motorcyclists' rights organization to establish a full-time presence in Washington, DC, the Motorcycle Riders Foundation is the only Washington voice devoted exclusively to the street rider. The MRF established MRFPAC in the early 1990s to advocate the election of candidates who would champion the cause of rider safety and rider freedom.
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