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 $3,048,892.22 to Administracion De Compensaciones POR Accidentes De Automoviles (operating as the Puerto Rico Traffic Safety Commission's division CST) on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a Section 402 formula grant to conduct highway safety programs under Puerto Rico's approved highway safety plan.

The grant funds behavioral highway safety countermeasures designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through the recipient's implementation of projects aligned with identified countermeasure strategies. The funding supports a coordinated national highway safety program administered through state and territorial highway safety offices based on approved triennial highway safety plans and annual grant applications detailing problem identification, public participation, performance measures, and planned projects.

Performance occurs in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. The grant is distributed using a statutory apportionment formula available to the 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, and federally recognized tribes. States retain flexibility in administering their own highway safety programs and determining specific projects funded with federal monies, subject to NHTSA Regional Administrator review of performance plans, triennial highway safety plans, and annual grant 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.