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 State of Delaware Department of Safety & Homeland Security $150,000 under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) on October 1, 2025, to conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with Delaware's approved triennial Highway Safety Plan. The award supports a coordinated state highway safety program designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through identified countermeasure strategies and planned projects. The period of performance runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Leipsic, Delaware. Section 402 funding is apportioned to states using a statutory formula and requires submission of an approved triennial Highway Safety Plan detailing problem identification, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, along with annual grant applications specifying planned projects. States retain flexibility in determining which projects to fund within the approved plan framework.

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.