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 New Mexico Department of Transportation $3,294,957.86 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved highway safety plan.

The award funds countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage across New Mexico. The funding is apportioned to the state highway safety office based on a triennial highway safety plan detailing problem identification, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, with specific projects detailed in the approved annual grant application.

The recipient, the New Mexico Department of Transportation Transit and Rail Division, administers the award from Santa Fe, New Mexico. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. NMDOT serves as the designated state transportation authority responsible for administering federal highway safety funding and operates as a mandatory pass-through entity for sub-awards to regional transit districts, local planning authorities, and county and municipal entities undertaking transportation projects within their jurisdictions.

The State and Community Highway Safety program is available to the 50 states, territories, and federally recognized tribes, with funds distributed by statutory apportionment formula. States retain flexibility in determining projects and fund allocation within their approved highway safety plans, subject to NHTSA review and approval of triennial plans and annual applications.

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.