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…

The Department of Transportation Maryland Office of Planning and Finance Division received a $288,395.87 Formula Grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600). This multi-year grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, supports the implementation of the state's approved highway safety plan through September 30, 2027. The funding facilitates a coordinated national program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage in Maryland through various behavioral safety initiatives. Key activities funded include law enforcement training, public education campaigns, traffic records improvements, and staffing for the Maryland Highway Safety Office. The Department of Transportation Maryland frequently partners with other state agencies, local governments, universities, and nonprofits as sub-recipients to execute specific highway safety projects and activities.

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.