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 Department of Public Safety State Utah $3,699,060.44 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved Highway Safety Plan. The recipient, headquartered in Taylorsville, Utah, delivers behavioral highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through identified countermeasure strategies. The award funds activities and programs implemented across Utah through the state highway safety office, with obligated funds supporting projects selected under the state's triennial and annual highway safety planning process. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. Section 402 formula grant funding is apportioned by statutory formula to state and territorial highway safety offices and supports coordinated national highway safety programming. The state retains flexibility in determining specific projects and countermeasure strategies within behavioral highway safety purposes, subject to NHTSA approval of the triennial plan 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.