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 $2,923,275 to the Maine Department of Public Safety on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved highway safety plan.

The recipient will deploy Section 402 funds exclusively for behavioral highway safety countermeasures designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. The grant supports projects identified in Maine's triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application, which specify problem areas and evidence-based countermeasure strategies for programming the funds.

Performance period runs through September 30, 2029, with all work performed in Augusta, Maine. The formula grant was apportioned to the state using statutory apportionment methodology, with Maine's allocation approved by the NHTSA Regional Administrator following review of the state's Performance Plan, Triennial Highway Safety Plan, and Annual Grant Application. The program provides the state flexibility in project selection and administration, contingent on compliance with federal eligibility requirements and retention of program records for no fewer than three years from final financial report submission.

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.