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 Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia $150,000 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a Formula Grant to conduct highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved highway safety plan.

The award funds behavioral highway safety countermeasures designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through the state's coordinated highway safety initiatives. The Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia, the state highway safety office, receives the funding to implement projects identified in its triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application, selecting countermeasure strategies that address problems the state has identified.

Performance period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Charleston, West Virginia. Section 402 funding is apportioned to states using a statutory formula and requires compliance with an approved triennial highway safety plan that includes problem identification, public participation, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies. States retain latitude in determining which projects to fund within behavioral highway safety priorities.

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.