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

The grant funds countermeasure strategies and projects identified in the North Dakota Highway Safety Plan designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through a coordinated national highway safety program. Funding is apportioned to the state highway safety office based on an approved triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application detailing problem identification, performance measures, and planned projects.

The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. Place of performance is Bismarck, North Dakota. This is a formula grant, with funds apportioned according to statutory formula and obligated in support of highway safety programs based on problems identified by the state. States retain flexibility in administration and latitude in determining projects on which federal monies are spent.

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.