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 $169,032.13 Formula Grant award is provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to the New Mexico Department of Transportation's (NMDOT) Transit and Rail Division. The funding will support NMDOT in implementing its approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan, which coordinates state and local initiatives aimed at reducing traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage across New Mexico.

As the designated state transportation agency, NMDOT will use the grant funds to conduct various behavioral safety programs, including efforts related to occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, traffic records improvements, emergency medical services, and non-motorized safety enhancements. NMDOT will also sub-award portions of the funding to regional planning organizations, metropolitan planning organizations, and transit districts to deliver transportation infrastructure improvements, public transit services, and targeted safety interventions at the local level.

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.