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 State Police Michigan (Michigan State Police) received a $549,739.36 Formula Grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600). This grant provides funding to conduct highway safety programs under Michigan's approved triennial Highway Safety Plan. The grant supports a coordinated national effort to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through behavioral safety initiatives, such as occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, and traffic records improvements. These funds are apportioned using a statutory formula and are provided to state and territorial highway safety offices to implement approved safety plans, often with sub-awards to local partners for specific projects and programs.

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.