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 Maine Department of Public Safety $150,000 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct behavioral highway safety programs consistent with Maine's approved highway safety plan through September 30, 2029.

The funding supports the state highway safety office's implementation of countermeasure strategies addressing traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities. The Maine Department of Public Safety, headquartered in Augusta, Maine, administers Section 402 grant funds to reduce motor vehicle crash outcomes through evidence-based behavioral interventions. The state's approved triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application detail problem identification, performance measures, and specific projects funded under this allocation.

As a formula grant, the award amount was determined by statutory apportionment rather than competitive selection. The assistance type is Formula Grant, and place of performance is Augusta, Maine.

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.