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 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation $13,013,927.44 under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct highway safety programs aligned with Pennsylvania's approved highway safety plan.

The funding supports behavioral highway safety countermeasures designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through projects identified in the state's triennial and annual grant applications. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, a division of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, serves as the prime recipient and administers the award with administrative and operational oversight in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2029.

The award carries a sub-award to the municipality of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, effective April 23, 2026, which receives federal funds to conduct highway safety enforcement activities.

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.