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 Nevada Department of Public Safety $180,793.33 on October 1, 2025, under the Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grant (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved highway safety plan. The award period runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Carson City, Nevada.

The State Fire Marshal Division, which operates as Nevada's designated State Highway Safety Office, uses Section 402 funds exclusively for behavioral highway safety purposes to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. Grant activities are guided by the state's triennial highway safety plan identifying problem areas and approved annual grant applications detailing countermeasure strategies and specific projects. The State Fire Marshal Division administers the award and coordinates implementation across state and local partners, including the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, local law enforcement agencies, county governments, and educational institutions implementing occupant protection initiatives, impaired driving countermeasures, distracted driving awareness, nonmotorized safety programs, and traffic records system improvements statewide.

Section 402 funding operates as a formula grant apportioned to states under statutory formulas, with eligibility and compliance determinations made by NHTSA Regional Administrators. States retain flexibility in administering their highway safety programs and determining specific projects within federal parameters, subject to NHTSA review and approval of performance plans and annual applications.

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.