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 Mississippi Department of Public Safety $4,100,799.28 on October 1, 2025, under the Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grant (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved highway safety plan.

The funding supports behavioral highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies and projects identified in Mississippi's approved triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety serves as the State Highway Safety Office administering the grant.

The award runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Jackson, Mississippi. Section 402 funds are apportioned to states using a statutory formula and must be used solely for behavioral highway safety purposes. The grant requires the state to detail problem identification, performance measures, countermeasure strategies, public participation and engagement, and planned projects in its applications to NHTSA, which retains authority to review and approve the state's triennial and annual submissions within 60 days. States retain flexibility in determining specific projects 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.