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 Texas Department of Transportation $30,369,385.65 under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct behavioral highway safety programs under Texas's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The grant funds highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. TxDOT administers the program as the state highway safety office, distributing Section 402 funds through subawards to eligible recipients across Texas based on problem identification, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies detailed in the state's triennial and annual grant applications.

The award obligates $30,369,385.65 for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Austin, Texas. Formula apportionment determines the funding level; NHTSA Regional Administrators review TxDOT's performance plan, triennial highway safety plan, and annual grant application for eligibility and compliance. TxDOT has discretion in selecting projects within its approved plan, subject to federal oversight and continuous technical assistance from NHTSA and the Federal Highway Administration.

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.