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 Department of Public Safety, Executive Office of Public Safety Division (Massachusetts), $328,012.67 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a Section 402 formula grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds behavioral highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies identified in Massachusetts's triennial and annual grant applications. Work is performed in Boston, Massachusetts, with a period of performance through September 30, 2029. The formula grant apportionment reflects statutory allocation methodology and is contingent on the state's approved problem identification, performance measures, and planned projects aligned with identified countermeasure strategies.

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.