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 State of Delaware Department of Safety & Homeland Security $2,923,275 under the State and Community Highway Safety grant program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025. This Section 402 formula grant funds behavioral highway safety programs and countermeasure strategies designed to reduce motor vehicle crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage across the state. The recipient administers the grant under Delaware's approved triennial Highway Safety Plan and annual grant application, which identify problem areas and detail specific projects using evidence-based countermeasure strategies. The award obligates $2,923,275 and covers the period from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Leipsic, Delaware. Delaware's Highway Safety Office uses formula-apportioned funds to implement behavioral safety initiatives consistent with the state's highway safety priorities and in coordination with the federally facilitated national highway safety program framework.

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.