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 West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles $2,923,275 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 aligned with the state's approved highway safety plan.

The award funds behavioral highway safety countermeasures and activities designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through a coordinated national highway safety program. The Department of Motor Vehicles will execute the grant over the period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Charleston, West Virginia.

Section 402 funds are apportioned to states using statutory formula and require submission of an approved triennial highway safety plan detailing problem identification, public participation, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, along with an approved annual grant application specifying planned projects. States retain flexibility in determining which projects to fund with federal monies, subject to NHTSA regional administrator review and approval of the performance plan, triennial plan, and annual application.

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.