# 2024-31630: DOT Offers $50K Prize for Best Human Trafficking Fighting Idea

2024-31630, Solicitation for Annual Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-06, effective 2025-01-06; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31630
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31630
- Title: Solicitation for Annual Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-06
- Effective: 2025-01-06
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

DOT Offers $50K Prize for Best Human Trafficking Fighting Idea

## Summary

The Department of Transportation is calling on people and groups to create smart, new ways to fight human trafficking in transportation. Winners can score up to $50,000 for the most powerful idea or tool that helps stop this crime. You’ve got from January 6 to March 7, 2025, to enter and make a real difference!

## Abstract

The annual Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award (the award) is a component of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Transportation Leaders Against Human Trafficking initiative that seeks to raise awareness among transportation stakeholders about human trafficking and increase training and prevention to combat the crime. The award serves as a platform for transportation stakeholders to creatively develop impactful and innovative counter-trafficking tools, initiatives, campaigns, and technologies that can be shared with the broader community to help stop human trafficking. The award is open to individuals and entities, including non-governmental organizations, transportation industry associations, research institutions, and State and local government organizations. Entrants compete for a cash award of up to $50,000 to be awarded to the individual(s) or entity selected for creating the most impactful counter-trafficking initiative or technology.

## Effects PRIA read

- Up to $50,000 First-Place Prize: benefit, high. If you enter the DOT competition and win first place, you can receive up to $50,000 in cash. The notice says up to three winners are expected, and the first-place winner receives the cash prize.
- U.S.-Only Eligibility Requirement: cost, medium. To be eligible, private entities must be incorporated in and maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and individuals must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The notice also says there is no charge to enter.
- No Federal Funds for Submission Development: cost, medium. Federal grant recipients and Federal contractors may not use Federal funds to develop submissions or to fund efforts in support of a submission. Applicants must therefore use non-Federal funds if they participate.
- Entrants Assume Liability and Indemnify DOT: cost, high. By entering, entrants must indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Federal Government from third-party claims and are financially responsible for third-party claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses related to their submission. Entrants also waive claims against the Government except for…
- DOT Gets Royalty-Free Use of Entries: cost, medium. If selected, entrants must provide a written consent granting DOT (and partners) a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to display and use the entry for promotional purposes, and DOT may use entrants' names and likenesses in perpetuity without further payment.
- Possible DOT-Paid Invitational Travel: benefit, low. DOT may, at its discretion, pay invitational travel expenses to Washington, DC for up to two individuals or representatives of the first-place winner and runners up if they are invited to present their proposals.
- No Entry Fee; Submission Process and Dates: benefit, low. There is no charge to enter the competition. Submissions must be sent via the specified Microsoft Forms link and are accepted from January 6, 2025 until 11:59 p.m. PST/2:59 a.m. EST on March 7, 2025.

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## Sources
- [2024-31630 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/06/2024-31630/solicitation-for-annual-combating-human-trafficking-in-transportation-impact-award)
- [2024-31630 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-31630.pdf)

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- [Next: 2024-31632, Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31632)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31630 (as of 2026-06-08).