Assistance program
Capital Assistance to States - Intercity Passenger Rail Service
-$558,778 committed in FY2018–FY2024
- Agency
- Federal Railroad Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.317
- What it does
- To provide financial assistance to fund capital improvements (and related planning activities) necessary to support improved or new intercity passenger rail service.
- Who benefits
- To be eligible for this assistance, States must include intercity passenger rail service as an integral part of statewide transportation planning as required under section 135 of title 23, United States Code. To be eligible for capital assistance, the specific project must be on the Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan at the time of the application to qualify. State departments of transportation and other public agencies, although private transportation companies may participate through contractual arrangements with a State department of transportation.
- Who applies
- To be eligible for this assistance, States must include intercity passenger rail service as an integral part of statewide transportation planning as required under section 135 of title 23, United States Code. To be eligible for capital assistance, the specific project must be on the Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan at the time of the application to qualify.
- Authorized by
- The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA)
- Program site
- https://railroads.dot.gov/ ↗
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- Committed through this program
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