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 highway safety…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs $6,206,225.45 under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved Highway Safety Plan. The award covers the period through September 30, 2029, and supports behavioral highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies and programming identified in Alabama's triennial and annual grant applications. Place of performance is Montgomery, Alabama. Section 402 funds are apportioned to state highway safety offices using a statutory formula and require states to document problem identification, performance measures, public participation, and countermeasure strategies in triennial plans and annual applications before NHTSA obligates awards. States retain flexibility in determining projects and spending priorities within approved safety plans. This is a formula grant assistance type.

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 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.