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 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety $400,000 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), a formula grant for behavioral highway safety programs executed under the territory's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The award funds the delivery of highway safety countermeasure strategies and projects designed to reduce motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities across the Northern Mariana Islands. DPS, as the territorial highway safety office, administers the grant through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Saipan, CNMI.

Section 402 funding is apportioned to states and territories using a statutory formula and requires an approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan documenting problem identification, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies. DPS develops annual grant applications detailing specific projects aligned with these strategies. The Federal-State partnership grants territories latitude in determining how federal funds are deployed against identified highway safety problems, with NHTSA Regional Administrators reviewing compliance and performance.

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.