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 Executive Office of the State of Oklahoma $5,723,551.17 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600), to conduct highway safety programs aligned with Oklahoma's approved highway safety plan.

The recipient will use Section 402 funds exclusively for behavioral highway safety countermeasures designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. Eligible activities include projects addressing problems identified in Oklahoma's triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application, with countermeasure strategies documented in the state's performance plan. The assistance type is a formula grant apportioned under statutory formula.

The award obligates $5,723,551.17 with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, and is administered from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Executive Office of the State of Oklahoma, operating through its Office of the Governor, serves as the state highway safety office responsible for coordinating the grant's implementation. Under the federal-state partnership model, Oklahoma retains discretion in project selection and program administration, subject to NHTSA regional administrator review and approval of the state's triennial and annual grant application documents.

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.