---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 6109"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "6109"
heading: "Public education and awareness"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/6109"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — General and Intermodal Programs"
  - "Chapter 61 — One-Call Notification Programs"
---

# §6109. Public education and awareness

- (a) **Grant Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/49/5102.md?p=11) shall make a grant to an appropriate entity for promoting public education and awareness with respect to the 811 national excavation damage prevention phone number.
- (b) **Authorization of Appropriations.—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/49/5102.md?p=11) $1,000,000 for the period beginning October 1, 2006, and ending September 30, 2008, to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–468, § 3(a), Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3489.)