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 $150,000 to the Office of Highway Safety, New Hampshire's state highway safety office, on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600). The award supports the Office's delivery of behavioral highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved triennial highway safety plan, including enforcement patrols, DUI checkpoints and sobriety programs, traffic safety advertising campaigns, child passenger safety initiatives, law enforcement training and equipment, and traffic data system improvements. Performance runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Concord, New Hampshire. The formula grant is apportioned under statutory formula to state and territorial highway safety offices to reduce motor vehicle crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through coordinated countermeasure strategies addressing occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, distracted driving enforcement, motorcyclist safety, and non-motorized road user protection. The Office administers these funds in partnership with the New Hampshire Department of Safety, the Attorney General's Office, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and municipal police departments throughout the state.

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.