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 Louisiana Highway Safety Commission $5,177,481.23 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved highway safety plan. These Section 402 funds support behavioral highway safety purposes and facilitate reduction of traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies identified in Louisiana's triennial and annual grant applications. The award period runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, a division of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and the designated highway safety office for the state, administers the grant and coordinates implementation of evidence-based highway safety initiatives across Louisiana parishes. The Commission sub-awarded a portion of the funding to Main Street Investments, LLC to assist in implementing data-driven policies, programs, and practices to reduce the incidence of impaired driving.

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.