The mission of NHTSA is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity. Through enforcing vehicle performance standards and partnerships with state and local governments, NHTSA reduces deaths, injuries, and economic losses from motor vehicle crashes. NHTSA provides grants to states so states can conduct effective highway safety programs. NHTSA's Office of Regional Operations and Program Delivery (ROPD) administers over $500 million in grant programs annually to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Territories, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Under Section 405, NHTSA awards grants for occupant protection, State traffic safety information systems, impaired driving countermeasures, distracted driving, motorcyclist safety, State graduated driver licensing laws, and non-motorized safety. Also included is a revised racial profiling grant program (Section 1906). Regional offices help States use data to identify their highway safety problems, evaluate safety programs and activities, and provide technical assistance and training to State program managers. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, includes funding for traffic safety grants. On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or “FAST Act.” It was the first law enacted in over 10 years that provided long-term funding certainty for surface transportation, meaning States and local governments can move forward with critical transportation projects, like new highways and transit lines, with the confidence that they will have a federal partner over the long term. The FAST Act authorized $2.7 billion in funding for the Section 402 Highway Safety Programs and Section 405 National Priority Safety Programs for fiscal years 2016 through 2020. MAP-21 provides $1.3 billion for highway safety grant programs. It was enacted on July 6, 2012, and restructured existing grant programs administered by NHTSA. MAP-21 specifies a single application deadline for all highway safety grants and requires that all states have a performance-based highway safety program. Resources Guide | NHTSA: NHTSA is divided into ten geographic regions. These NHTSA Regional Offices provide great support to law enforcement for your traffic safety programs. Funding Opportunities: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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About NHTSA NHTSA maintains many useful resources as it relates to impaired driving to include the latest nationwide and individual state’s traffic crash statistics. The link below will help you access this information.
Drunk Driving | Statistics and Resources | NHTSA
MADD and NHTSA MADD maintains a relationship with NHTSA to help promote traffic safety across the nation. Through an umbrella grant funding agreement provided by NHTSA, MADD has submitted proposals for Cooperative Agreement Projects to provide training and educational and awareness programs to support law enforcement in your efforts to fight impaired driving. More information about MADD’s support of law enforcement can be found on MADD’s website at this link: Law Enforcement Support - MADD.
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