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 New Mexico Department of Transportation $169,071.90 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a formula grant supporting behavioral highway safety programs under the state's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds the state highway safety office to conduct highway safety programs designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through identified countermeasure strategies. The funding supports activities outlined in New Mexico's approved triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application, which detail problem identification, performance measures, and specific projects employing countermeasure strategies to mitigate motor vehicle crash fatalities and injuries.

The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The state highway safety office administers these funds with flexibility to direct resources toward projects aligned with identified state safety problems, operating as part of a federal-state partnership. NHTSA retains discretionary approval authority over the state's triennial and annual grant applications within a 60-day review window.

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.