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Description of the 402 Program and the Alaska Highway Safety Section 402 Highway Safety Funds Highway Safety Funds are used to support State and community programs to reduce deaths and injuries on the highways. Section 402(b) sets forth the minimum requirements with which each State's highway safety program must comply Section 402(b) sets forth the minimum requirements with which each State's highway safety program must comply. For example, the Secretary may not approve a program unless it provides that the Governor of the State is responsible for its administration through a State highway safety agency which has adequate powers and is suitably equipped and organized to carry out the program to the satisfaction of the Secretary. Additionally, the program must authorize political subdivisions of the State to carry out local highway safety programs and provide a certain minimum level of funding for these local programs each fiscal year. The enforcement of these and other continuing requirements is entrusted to the Secretary and, by delegation, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) (the agencies). When it was originally enacted in 1966, the Highway Safety Act required the agencies to establish uniform standards for State highway safety programs to assist States and local communities in implementing their highway safety programs. Eighteen such standards were established and, until 1976, the Section 402 program was directed principally toward achieving State and local compliance with these standards. Over time, State highway safety programs matured and, in 1976, the Highway Safety Act was amended to provide for more flexible implementation of the program. States were no longer required to comply with every uniform standard or with each element of every uniform standard. As a result, the standards became more like guidelines for use by the States, and management of the program shifted from enforcing sta |