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 Wyoming Department of Transportation $150,000 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) to conduct highway safety programs under Wyoming's approved highway safety plan. The grant funds behavioral highway safety purposes and supports a coordinated national program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through countermeasure strategies identified in the state's triennial plan and annual grant application. The award is obligated at $150,000 with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, and performance takes place in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Section 402 funds are apportioned to states using statutory formula and require submission of an approved triennial highway safety plan detailing problem identification, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies, along with an annual grant application outlining specific projects designed to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.

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.