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 Wisconsin Department of Transportation $372,687.19 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs under Wisconsin's approved highway safety plan. The award, designated as Formula Grant 69A3752630SUP4020WI0, funds behavioral highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. The period of performance runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Madison, Wisconsin. Section 402 funds are apportioned to states using statutory formula and require an approved triennial highway safety plan identifying problems, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, along with an annual grant application detailing specific projects. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, a child entity of the State of Wisconsin, serves as the prime recipient and administers the grant to implement highway safety initiatives statewide.

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.