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 Iowa Department of Public Safety $261,882.55 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a formula grant funding highway safety programs in accordance with the state's approved Highway Safety Plan. The award obligates funds through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Des Moines, Iowa. Section 402 funding supports behavioral highway safety countermeasures designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through projects identified in Iowa's Triennial Highway Safety Plan and Annual Grant Application. The Iowa Department of Public Safety administers this formula allocation as the state highway safety office, with flexibility to direct funds toward state-identified safety priorities and countermeasure strategies within the behavioral highway safety scope.

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.