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 Public Safety South Carolina Department $5.809 million on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600), Section 402 funding. The grant funds behavioral highway safety programs conducted under South Carolina's approved Highway Safety Plan, supporting countermeasure strategies and planned projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities. The recipient, doing business as the Office of Justice Programs and headquartered in Blythewood, South Carolina, serves as the state's designated administrator for federal highway safety grants. The assistance type is a formula grant, with funds apportioned to South Carolina under statutory formula and obligated based on the state's approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan and Annual Grant Application. Performance runs through September 30, 2029. The Office of Justice Programs functions as a pass-through entity, distributing highway safety funds to local law enforcement agencies, county governments, and nonprofit organizations throughout South Carolina to implement impaired driving countermeasures, occupant protection initiatives, nonmotorized safety enforcement, traffic records improvements, and driver education programs.

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.