Highway Safety Grants Program
Resources Guide
Resources
This site provides information to assist State and Federal professionals to manage highway safety grant programs administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Included are:
- United States Codes, Code of Federal Regulations, and Office of Management and Budget Circulars
- NHTSA Grant Funding Guidance
- Section 402 grant guidance
- Glossary
- Questions and answers on selected traffic safety topics
- For user convenience, referenced Federal regulations are linked to source documents
Topical Searches
- Submission with Highway Safety Plan (23 CFR Part 1300 Appendix A)
- Use of equipment (23 CFR § 1300.31(b))
- Management and disposition (23 CFR § 1300.31(c))
- Major purchases and disposition (23 CFR § 1300.31(d))
- Federally owned equipment (23 CFR § 1300.31(f))
- State management of equipment (2 CFR § 200.313)
- General Cost of Government (2 CFR § 200.444)
- Highway safety plan annual report (23 CFR § 1300.35)
- Disposition of Unexpended Balances (23 CFR § 1300.41(b))
- Expiration of Highway Safety Plan (23 CFR § 1300.40(a))
- Extension of Highway Safety Plan (23 CFR § 1300.40(c))
- Final Voucher (23 CFR § 1300.40(b))
- Highway safety planning process (23 CFR § 1300.11(a))
- Performance report (23 CFR § 1300.11(b))
- Performance plan (23 CFR § 1300.11(c))
- Highway safety program area problem identification, countermeasure strategies, projects and funding (23 CFR § 1300.11(d))
- Teen traffic safety program (23 CFR § 1300.11(e))
- Certifications and assurances (23 CFR § 1300.11(f))
- Section 405 grant and racial profiling data collection grant application (23 CFR § 1300.11(g))
- Sub-Grantee (2 CFR Part 200, Appendix VII.D.b)
- State Interagency (2 CFR § 200.417)
- Non-Profits (2 CFR § 200.414(f))
- Non-Profits (2 CFR Part 200, Appendix IV)
- Institute of Higher Education (2 CFR Part 200, Appendix III)
- Indian Tribes (2 CFR Part 200, Appendix VII)
- Questions and Answers
- Certification and Assurances (23 CFR § 1300, Appendix A)
- Submission with Highway Safety Plan (23 CFR § 1300.11(d)(2))
- Occupant Protection Grants (23 CFR § 1300.21(d)(5))
- Traffic Safety Information System Improvement Grants (23 CFR § 1300.22(c))
- Impaired Driving Countermeasures (23 CFR § 1300.23(d)(2))
- State Monitoring Requirements (2 CFR § 200.328)
- General Information (23 CFR § 1300.20)
- Occupant Protection Grants (23 CFR § 1300.21)
- State Traffic Safety Information System Grants (23 CFR § 1300.22)
- Impaired Driving Countermeasures Grants (23 CFR § 1300.23)
- Distracted Driving Grants (23 CFR § 1300.24)
- Motorcyclist Safety Grants (23 CFR § 1300.25)
- State Graduated Driver Licensing Incentive Grants (23 CFR § 1300.26)
- Nonmotorized Safety Grants (23 CFR § 1300.27)
- Racial Profiling Data Collection Grants (23 CFR § 1300.28)
- Policy, terms and procedures (23 CFR § 1300, Appendix D)
- Policy, terms and determining local share (23 CFR § 1300, Appendix C)
- Definition of program income (2 CFR § 200.80)
- Program Income (2 CFR § 200.307)
- Sanctions – Reduction of Apportionment (23 CFR § 1300.51)
- General requirements (23 CFR § 1300.4(a))
- Authority of State Highway Safety Agency (23 CFR § 1300.4(b))
- Function of State Highway Safety Agency (23 CFR § 1300.4(c))
- Post-Grant Adjustments (23 CFR § 1300.42)
- Coordination with Highway Safety Plan (23 CFR § 1300.11(a)(6))
- Strategic Highway Safety Plan at FHWA.gov
- Time and Attendance (23 CFR § 1300, Appendix D)
- Voucher general, content of voucher, project agreements, submission requirements and reimbursement (23 CFR § 1300.33)
- Planning and Administration Costs (23 CFR 1300.13)
- Prohibition on Use of Grant Funds to Check for Helmet Usage (23 CFR 1300.13)
- Prohibition on Use of Grant Funds for Automated Traffic Enforcement Systems (23 CFR 1300.13)
- Biennial Survey of State Automated Traffic Enforcement Systems (23 CFR 1300.13)
Resources
NHTSA Guidance
- Non-Federal Share (Match) Guidance (PDF, 225 KB)
- Fast Act Maintenance of Effort Guidance (PDF, 276 KB)
- Paying for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors’ Activities Guidance (PDF, 336 KB)
- Final External 405c Program Clarification, 1-29-2019 (PDF, 223 KB)
- Use of NHTSA Highway Safety Grant Funds for Certain Purchases
- Buy America Act Guidance (revised 11-20-2015)
- NHTSA HSP Amendment Review Implementation (PDF, 600 KB)
- NHTSA HSP Amendment Process Upload Options (Word, 30 KB)
- Funding Motorcycle Helmet Surveys (PDF, 80 KB)
Federal Regulations For All Grant Programs
- Section 402 Legislation 23USC-Section 402 Highway Safety Programs
- Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Programs 23 CFR Part 1300
- State Highway Safety Agency Authority and Functions 23 CFR 1300.4
- State Matching of Planning and Administration Costs 23 CFR Part 1300 Appendix D
- Matching Rates for State and Community Highway Safety Programs - NHTSA Order 462-6C
- Sanctions - 23 CFR Part 1300.51
- Political Subdivision Participating in State Highway Safety Programs 23 CFR Part 1300 Appendix C