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 Indian Nations Council of Governments $7.795 million under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct behavioral highway safety programs across the region under an approved highway safety plan. The award funds regional highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies and performance measures aligned with the recipient's triennial and annual grant applications. The grant obligates $7.795 million and runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Indian Nations Council of Governments, operating as Incog, is a regional council of governments serving five counties in northeast Oklahoma (Rogers, Wagoner, Tulsa, Osage, and Creek). Section 402 funds are apportioned by statutory formula to state and territorial highway safety offices and, in this case, to the regional recipient based on an approved triennial highway safety plan detailing problem identification, public participation, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies for programming funds to help reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.

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.