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 $974,425 to the Department of Public Safety of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on October 1, 2025, under the Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grant program (CFDA 20.600).

The recipient will conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with the territory's approved triennial highway safety plan. Section 402 funding supports a coordinated national highway safety program designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies addressing identified behavioral safety problems. The Department of Public Safety, as the territorial highway safety office, programs funds toward planned projects that advance performance measures and reduce motor vehicle crash fatalities and injuries.

The award obligates $974,425 and runs through September 30, 2029. Work is performed in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Formula apportionment determines the funding amount based on statutory criteria; the recipient's annual grant application details the specific projects and countermeasures it will implement using these federal dollars.

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.