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 Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles $437,798.33 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a formula grant supporting behavioral highway safety countermeasures aligned with Virginia's approved triennial and annual highway safety plans. The award funds highway safety programs designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through identified countermeasure strategies. Performance of this award runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Richmond, Virginia. The Virginia DMV's Grants Management Division administers the award, leveraging formula-apportioned federal funds to implement comprehensive statewide highway safety initiatives including law enforcement training, public education campaigns, and data system enhancements. Virginia has flexibility in determining specific projects and countermeasures within the parameters of its approved safety plan, subject to NHTSA review and approval of annual grant 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.