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's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has awarded a $400,000 Formula Grant under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). This 4-year grant, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027, will support the BIA in conducting highway safety programs on Native lands in accordance with the agency's approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan.

The funding will facilitate a coordinated national effort to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through behavioral safety initiatives. Allowable activities include education, enforcement, and emergency medical services focused on occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, and other traffic safety priorities. BIA will leverage this Formula Grant to implement projects and programs tailored to the specific needs and challenges of tribal communities.

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.