Section 410 Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Countermeasure Incentive Grant
All State Highway Safety Grant Programs
History and Administration
The Section 410 Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasure Incentive Grant Program was initially authorized by the Omnibus Drug Initiative of 1989 and has been reauthorized and amended a number of times since then, including under SAFETEA-LU. The program is administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at the federal level and the State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) at the state level.
Purpose
This program provides incentive grants to states that implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from impaired driving.
Requirements
SAFETEA-LU
A state is eligible for this grant in one of two ways:
- By satisfying the performance criteria of an alcohol-related fatality rate of .05 or below per 100 million vehicle miles of travel (VMT); OR
- By satisfying three of the following programmatic eligibility criteria in FY 2006, four in FY 2007 and five in FY 2008 and FY 2009:
- Checkpoint or saturation patrol program
- Prosecution or adjudication outreach program
- BAC testing program
- High risk driver program
- Program for effective alcohol rehabilitation or DWI courts
- Underage drinking program
- Administrative license revocation law
- Self-sustaining impaired driving program
The state must also satisfy a maintenance of effort requirement.
TEA-21
Under TEA-21, a state was eligible for this grant in one of two ways:
- By demonstrating it had implemented
at least five out of seven of the following:
- An administrative license suspension program
- An underage drinking program
- Sobriety checkpoints or other similar intensive enforcement program
- A graduated licensing law with nighttime driving curfews and other restrictions
- A program to target drivers with high BACs
- A program for young adult drinking drivers between 21-34 years old
- A program for increasing testing of drivers in fatal crashes; OR
- By demonstrating:
- A reduction in the percentage of fatally injured drivers with .10 BAC or greater in each of the last years, and
- The percentage of drivers with .10 BAC or greater was lower than the national average for each of the last three years
Qualifying states were also eligible to receive one or more supplemental grants (not to exceed 10% of total Section 410 funding in each year) for: videotaping of drunk drivers by police; a self-sustaining drunk driving program; laws to reduce driving with a suspended license; use of passive alcohol sensors by police; effective system for tracking DWI's; or other innovative programs.
Funding
SAFETEA-LU authorizes the Section 410 program at the following levels:
- FY 2009: $139 million
- FY 2008: $131 million
- FY 2007: $125 million
- FY 2006: $120 million
- FY 2005: $40 million
The federal share payable is 75%, declining to 25% in the final year of the program. Not more than 15% of the total program must be earmarked for the 10 states with the highest impaired driving fatality rates, and none of these 10 "high risk" state may receive more than 30% of the earmarked funding. These states must must prepare an impaired driving plan that is approved by NHTSA, and half of the funding must be used for sobriety checkpoints or saturation patrols. Funds are allocated on the basis of the Section 402 formula. Unobligated funds may be transferred into the Section 405 or Section 408 programs.
Total dollar amounts allocated for this program under SAFETEA-LU are shown below. Click on a column header to see all federal highway safety funding for that fiscal year.
| State | ||||||
| Ala. | 1,783,252 | 1,877,996 | 3,063,814 | |||
| Alaska | 532,578 | 558,348 | 1,059,561 | 2,384,832 | 972,388 | 964,139 |
| A.S. | ||||||
| Ariz. | 4,400,140 | 4,813,097 | 5,268,302 | 5,042,905 | 2,053,648 | 2,277,707 |
| Ark. | 3,390,955 | 1,399,957 | 1,624,256 | 1,600,272 | 3,580,483 | |
| Calif. | 10,061,948 | 10,585,374 | 12,848,796 | 11,968,164 | 11,800,091 | 11,738,936 |
| Colo. | 1,691,543 | 1,781,364 | 2,196,831 | 2,044,470 | 2,013,430 | 2,083,300 |
| Conn. | 1,037,369 | 1,091,503 | 1,326,980 | 1,235,588 | 1,217,610 | 1,163,906 |
| Del. | 530,578 | 558,348 | 986,797 | 1,981,973 | 964,139 | |
| D.C. | 530,578 | 972,388 | 964,139 | |||
| Fla. | 4,996,558 | 5,262,137 | 6,417,177 | 5,969,133 | 5,878,201 | 6,190,359 |
| Ga. | 2,910,999 | 3,065,461 | 3,761,231 | 3,503,972 | 3,474,193 | 3,642,258 |
| Guam | ||||||
| Hawaii | 530,578 | 558,348 | 2,491,330 | 972,388 | 964,139 | |
| Idaho | 640,837 | 673,465 | 1,059,561 | 986,797 | 972,388 | 964,139 |
| Ill. | 4,171,559 | 4,388,048 | 5,362,835 | 4,991,689 | 4,918,262 | 4,658,973 |
| Indian Ntns. |
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| Ind. | 2,213,451 | 2,331,134 | 2,872,359 | 2,665,984 | 2,625,916 | 2,553,565 |
| Iowa | 1,495,480 | 1,572,020 | 1,955,993 | 1,819,101 | 1,790,240 | 1,728,540 |
| Kan. | 1,566,081 | 1,647,835 | 1,950,474 | 1,876,834 | ||
| Ky. | 1,561,227 | 1,645,481 | 1,887,491 | 1,859,430 | 1,819,079 | |
| La. | 3,998,741 | 4,346,950 | 4,756,041 | 4,549,771 | 3,779,420 | 3,932,932 |
| Maine | 530,578 | 558,348 | 1,059,561 | 972,388 | 964,139 | |
| Md. | 1,600,270 | 1,684,342 | 2,047,197 | 1,907,284 | 1,879,392 | 1,856,297 |
| Mass. | 1,911,049 | 2,010,994 | 2,442,626 | 2,274,370 | 2,241,115 | 2,108,940 |
| Mich. | 3,410,506 | 3,580,033 | 4,380,836 | 4,075,345 | 4,013,700 | 3,697,231 |
| Minn. | 2,138,732 | 2,248,378 | 2,781,925 | 2,632,850 | 2,592,205 | 2,542,105 |
| Miss. | 1,890,134 | 3,385,160 | 2,149,529 | 2,098,144 | 1,515,542 | 1,773,952 |
| Mo. | 2,287,629 | 2,404,916 | 2,965,650 | 2,773,507 | 2,734,741 | 2,674,432 |
| Mont. | 1,725,735 | 1,871,410 | 2,491,330 | 2,384,832 | 1,981,973 | 2,181,636 |
| Neb. | 1,042,962 | 1,095,807 | 1,370,794 | 1,274,013 | 1,255,046 | 1,228,490 |
| Nev. | 1,896,194 | 2,072,154 | 2,491,330 | 986,797 | 972,388 | 1,022,509 |
| N.H. | 530,578 | 558,348 | 1,059,561 | 986,797 | 972,388 | 964,139 |
| N.J. | 2,473,961 | 2,605,406 | 3,160,020 | 2,943,360 | 2,899,522 | 2,757,156 |
| N.M. | 2,257,636 | 2,448,131 | 1,155,235 | 1,109,880 | 1,092,507 | 1,100,126 |
| N.Y. | 5,752,196 | 6,051,622 | 7,353,479 | 6,846,086 | 6,749,265 | 6,298,844 |
| N.C. | 2,784,438 | 2,930,961 | 3,590,798 | 3,347,298 | 3,301,470 | 3,473,644 |
| N.D. | 718,414 | 1,984,509 | 1,059,561 | 2,384,832 | 1,981,973 | 2,181,636 |
| M.P. | ||||||
| Ohio | 3,800,937 | 3,997,545 | 4,885,735 | 4,546,899 | 4,460,713 | 4,169,342 |
| Okla. | 1,627,544 | 1,711,585 | 2,123,905 | 1,973,387 | 1,945,188 | 1,916,558 |
| Ore. | 1,323,935 | 1,382,967 | 1,699,269 | 1,544,323 | 1,516,521 | 1,524,884 |
| Pa. | 4,021,148 | 4,229,093 | 5,165,566 | 4,809,475 | 4,738,020 | 4,488,368 |
| P.R. | 1,717,664 | 1,908,552 | 1,919,168 | 1,874,700 | 1,354,855 | 1,477,610 |
| R.I. | 530,578 | 558,348 | 986,797 | 972,388 | ||
| S.C. | 3775,228 | 4,103,281 | 4,500,545 | 4,303,497 | 3,573,627 | 4,076,969 |
| S.D. | 1,852,794 | 1,250,623 | 1,431,769 | 972,388 | 2,181,636 | |
| Tenn. | 2,071,876 | 2,187,937 | 2,692,847 | 2,502,364 | 2,472,459 | 2,489,968 |
| Texas | 7,448,592 | 7,837,977 | 8,951,187 | 17,973,219 | 15,669,451 | |
| Utah | 862,348 | 912,044 | 1,124,010 | 1,049,242 | 1,036,650 | 1,117,116 |
| Vt. | 530,578 | 558,348 | 1,059,561 | 986,797 | 972,388 | 964,139 |
| V.I. | ||||||
| Va. | 2,330,393 | 2,453,524 | 2,997,921 | 2,792,474 | 2,759,735 | 2,806,776 |
| Wash. | 2,077,186 | 2,198,328 | 2,692,314 | 2,506,329 | 2,468,611 | 2,521,137 |
| W.Va. | 713,655 | 750,251 | 1,059,561 | 2,384,832 | 1,981,973 | 2,181,636 |
| Wis | 2,141,502 | 2,253,864 | 2,779,631 | 2,587,064 | 2,547,817 | 2,471,561 |
| Wy. | 530,578 | 558,348 | 1,431,769 | 1,009,584 | ||
| Total $ | 118,350,000 | 124,500,000 | 130,500,000 | 138,500,000 | 138,793,988 | 138,949,994 |
| Total States | 50 + D.C., PR | 50 + PR | 43 + D.C. | 46 + PR | 48 + D.C., PR | 47 + DC, PR |