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 Georgia Department of Public Safety $581,481.66 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a Section 402 formula grant for behavioral highway safety programs. The Georgia Department of Public Safety, serving as the state's designated Highway Safety Office, will conduct highway safety initiatives under Georgia's approved Highway Safety Plan through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Atlanta, Georgia. The grant funds coordinated traffic safety countermeasures designed to reduce motor vehicle crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. The recipient will implement projects identified through its Triennial Highway Safety Plan and Annual Grant Application, exercising state discretion in determining specific projects and countermeasure strategies aligned with problem identification and performance measures. Section 402 funding is apportioned to states, territories, and federally recognized tribes using statutory formulas and requires NHTSA approval of the state's triennial and annual application documents.

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.