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 North Dakota Department of Transportation $150,000 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a formula grant to conduct highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds behavioral highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage across North Dakota. Award activities are executed statewide with administrative oversight in Bismarck, North Dakota. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029.

Section 402 funding is apportioned to states using statutory formula and requires an approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan identifying problems, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, along with an approved Annual Grant Application detailing specific projects. NHTSA Regional Administrators review performance plans, triennial plans, and annual applications for compliance and eligibility.

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.