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 Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety $377,966.27 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a formula grant supporting behavioral highway safety initiatives aligned with Arizona's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds highway safety programs designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through evidence-based countermeasure strategies. The Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety, operating as GHA and designated as the State Highway Safety Office, administers the grant to implement coordinated safety programming across Arizona, with place of performance in Phoenix, Arizona. The period of performance extends from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029.

Section 402 formula grant funding is apportioned to states and territories using a statutory apportionment formula and requires states to submit an approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan identifying problems, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, alongside an approved Annual Grant Application detailing specific projects. States retain flexibility in determining how to deploy federal funds based on locally identified problems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regional Administrator reviews each state's performance plan and annual application, with NHTSA allotted up to 60 days for approval. This assistance type is a formula grant.

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.