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 Montana Department of Transportation $2,923,275 under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct highway safety programs under Montana's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The Section 402 formula grant funds behavioral highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. Montana's award was apportioned using the statutory formula and obligates funding for the performance period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. Work is performed in Helena, Montana, where the State Highway Safety Office administers the grant.

Under the program structure, Montana identifies highway safety problems, sets performance measures, and proposes countermeasure strategies in its triennial and annual grant applications. The state has flexibility in project selection and fund allocation within behavioral safety parameters. NHTSA's Regional Administrator reviewed Montana's Triennial Highway Safety Plan and Annual Grant Application for compliance and approved the award. Records must be retained for no less than three years from the final financial report submission date.

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.