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 State of Nebraska $3,687,960.63 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), Section 402 authority, to conduct behavioral highway safety programs under the state's approved highway safety plan.

The award funds countermeasure strategies and projects identified in Nebraska's approved triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application, designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through a coordinated approach to behavioral safety. The funding period runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Section 402 grants are apportioned by statutory formula to state and territorial highway safety offices. Nebraska has latitude in determining which projects receive federal support within the behavioral highway safety scope. NHTSA retains review authority over the state's performance plan and annual grant applications, with records retention required for at least 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.