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 State of Nebraska Nebraska Library Commission Division has received a $189,604.66 federal formula grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the State and Community Highway Safety (CFDA 20.600) program. This multi-year grant, with a performance period of October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027, will fund the state's approved highway safety plan and support behavioral safety initiatives to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage in Nebraska. The grant funds can be used for a variety of traffic safety countermeasure strategies, including occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, and traffic records improvements. As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission Division will likely sub-award portions of the grant to local partners and organizations for targeted safety projects and programs in communities 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.