Section 402 state and community highway safety grant (23 C.F.R. Subpart b to part 1300; 23 U.S.C. & 402) - grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved triennial highway…

This $337,553.36 Formula Grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) provides funding to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to conduct highway safety programs as part of the state's approved triennial Highway Safety Plan. The grant funds will facilitate a coordinated national effort to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage in Colorado through behavioral safety initiatives. CDOT will use the award to implement various programs and strategies identified in its plan, which may include projects such as occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, traffic records improvement, and non-motorized safety enhancements. The grant has a period of performance from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, and CDOT may sub-award portions of the funding to local government partners and organizations to deliver targeted interventions across the state.

Section 402 state and community highway safety grant (23 C.F.R. Subpart b to part 1300; 23 U.S.C. & 402) - grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved triennial highway safety plan. Section 402 funding facilitates a coordinated national highway safety program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. A state may use these grant funds only for behavioral highway safety purposes. These funds are apportioned using statutory apportionment formula. These funds are provided to the state and territorial highway safety offices based on an approved triennial highway safety plan that details problem identification, public participation and engagement, performance measures, countermeasure strategies for programming funds and an approved annual grant application that details planned projects using identified countermeasure strategies for programming funds to help reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.