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 U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded a $298,161.91 Formula Grant under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to the Public Safety South Carolina Department, doing business as the Office of Justice Programs. This multi-year grant, with a period of performance from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, supports the implementation of the state's approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan. The grant funding enables South Carolina to conduct a coordinated set of behavioral highway safety programs and initiatives focused on reducing traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage across the state. The Office of Justice Programs, as the designated State Administering Agency, will manage the grant and sub-award portions to state agencies, counties, municipalities, and nonprofits for targeted traffic 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.