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 Maryland Department of Transportation $5,622,310.88 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a Section 402 formula grant to conduct behavioral highway safety programs under Maryland's approved highway safety plan through September 30, 2029.

The award funds countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. Maryland's approved triennial highway safety plan identifies problem areas and details performance measures and countermeasure strategies; the state's annual grant application specifies planned projects using those strategies. The Maryland Highway Safety Office administers the program from Glen Burnie, Maryland, with latitude to determine projects funded through this federal award based on problems identified by the state. Section 402 funding is apportioned to states and territories using a statutory apportionment formula and requires no state match.

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.