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 $156,445.71 under the Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grant (CFDA 20.600) to Administracion De Compensaciones POR Accidentes De Automoviles, operating as a division of the Puerto Rico Traffic Safety Commission and doing business as CST, on October 1, 2025. The award funds highway safety programs aligned with Puerto Rico's approved triennial Highway Safety Plan, supporting behavioral countermeasures to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage across the Commonwealth. The organization uses Section 402 funds only for behavioral highway safety purposes, implementing countermeasure strategies identified in its approved annual grant application. Performance extends through September 30, 2029, with work performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Formula apportionment determines the funding amount based on statutory methodology applied to Puerto Rico as a territory.

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.