Amendment to the Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs
Key claim: For fiscal year 2027, states will not have to set the same highway-safety performance targets in their NHTSA grant plans as they use in FHWA’s Highway Safety Improvement Program.
Abstract
(Rule · Transportation Department, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) This action amends the uniform procedures implementing the State Highway Safety Grant Program to waive, for fiscal year (FY) 2027, the requirement that targets for the common performance measures be identical to targets in the Federal Highway Administration State Highway Safety Improvement Program.
Why this matters
State highway safety offices normally must align the performance targets in their NHTSA grant applications with the targets their DOT counterparts submit under FHWA’s Highway Safety Improvement Program, forcing interagency coordination on fatality and serious-injury metrics. The FY2027 waiver gives states one cycle of flexibility to set NHTSA-specific targets without that lockstep, which may affect how progress toward safety goals is measured and reported for that year.