U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill announced today that the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s State and Community Highway Safety Grant program will provide $2,903,105 in federal formula grant funding to the Missouri State Government to extend state highway safety program funding.
According to the DOT, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program supports state highway safety programs that are designed to reduce traffic crashes and resulting deaths, injuries, and property damage. This money may only be used for highway safety purposes and 40 percent must be used to deal with local traffic safety issues.
McCaskill believes that federal grants and loans are a positive alternative to earmarks, which in the past have frequently had too little accountability. Competitive merit and need based federal grants and low-interest government loans bring federal assistance to Missouri in an honest and fiscally responsible manner.
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