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 Georgia Department of Public Safety $11.332 million on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety grant program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs aligned with Georgia's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds behavioral highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage on Georgia roadways. The Georgia Department of Public Safety, the state's designated Highway Safety Office, administers the grant based on an approved triennial plan that identifies problem areas, establishes performance measures, and selects countermeasure strategies for programming the funds. Award activities are performed in Atlanta, Georgia, with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. Section 402 funding is apportioned to states using a statutory formula and requires recipients to obligate funds only for behavioral highway safety purposes. States retain discretion in determining which projects receive federal support within their approved highway safety plans, subject to NHTSA Regional Administrator review of performance plans and annual grant applications.

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.