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 Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs $318,455.77 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs aligned with Alabama's approved Highway Safety Plan. The award funds behavioral highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Alabama's Highway Safety Plan identifies specific problems, establishes performance measures, and details countermeasure strategies for deploying these Section 402 funds across the state. The grant period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Montgomery, Alabama. Formula grant awards under this program are apportioned to states using statutory formulas and do not require competitive application; Alabama receives these funds annually based on its triennial and annual grant applications submitted to NHTSA for review and approval.

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.