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 Kansas Department of Transportation $5,439,983.33 under the State and Community Highway Safety Grant program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with Kansas's approved highway safety plan.

The award funds countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through a coordinated state highway safety program. Kansas will program these funds based on problem identification, performance measures, and strategies detailed in its triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application. The funding supports behavioral highway safety purposes only and is apportioned using statutory formula.

The award period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Topeka, Kansas. The assistance type is a formula grant. NHTSA's Regional Administrator reviewed Kansas's performance plan, triennial plan, and annual grant application for eligibility and compliance; NHTSA retains up to sixty days for approval of triennial plans and annual applications. States retain latitude in project selection and program administration within the federal-state partnership 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.