Assistance program
Interstate Rail Compacts
$900,000 committed in FY2024–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Railroad Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 20.328
- What it does
- The purpose of the IRC program is to provide a Federal funding opportunity to entities implementing interstate rail compacts. Congress authorized the IRC grant program for the Secretary to invest in a wide range of projects within the United States to promote passenger rail service, including activities related to the financing of such service, and to encourage multi-state grant applications.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Entities implementing interstate rail compacts means an existing entity, such as a commission, that has been established by member states to implement the Interstate Rail Compact. Applications must identify an eligible applicant as the lead applicant. The lead applicant serves as the primary point of contact for the application, and if selected, as the grantee. Eligible applicants may reference entities that are not eligible applicants in an application as a project partner.
- Authorized by
- 49 U.S.C. § 22910
- Program site
- https://railroads.dot.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments