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 $7,365,995.71 to the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600, Section 402) to conduct highway safety programs aligned with Arizona's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds behavioral highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through evidence-based countermeasure strategies identified in the state's triennial planning process. The Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety, serving as the state highway safety office, administers the grant and coordinates implementation of safety programs across Arizona. The funding supports activities including enforcement mobilizations, public awareness campaigns, law enforcement training, occupant protection initiatives, impaired driving prevention efforts, motorcyclist safety programs, nonmotorized user safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, and distracted driving awareness. The office also conducts traffic records coordination and maintains traffic stop data collection.

The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Phoenix, Arizona. This is a formula grant apportioned to Arizona under statutory formula based on the state's approved annual grant application detailing planned projects and countermeasures funded through the allocation.

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.