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 Vermont Agency of Transportation $150,000 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with Vermont's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds activities to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies identified in the State's Triennial Highway Safety Plan and Annual Grant Application. Section 402 formula grant funds support only behavioral highway safety purposes and are apportioned by statutory formula to state highway safety offices based on approved triennial and annual grant applications detailing problem identification, performance measures, and planned projects.

The award period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with performance at the Vermont Agency of Transportation in Barre, Vermont. Vermont receives formula funding allocation as a state highway safety office and administers the program in partnership with the NHTSA Regional Administrator, who reviews the State's performance plan, triennial highway safety plan, and annual grant applications for eligibility and compliance. The State retains discretion over project selection within approved countermeasure strategies.

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.