This program provides funding for capital projects within the United States to repair, replace, or rehabilitate qualified railroad assets to reduce the state of good repair backlog and improve intercity passenger rail performance.
Eligible projects repair, replace, or rehabilitate qualified railroad assets and improve intercity passenger rail performance. Eligible capital projects include those that:
- Replace existing assets in-kind;
- Replace existing assets with assets that increase capacity or provide a higher level of service;
- Ensure that service can be maintained while existing assets are brought to a state of good repair; and
- Bring existing assets to a state of good repair.
Eligible Recipients:
- A State (including the District of Columbia)
- A group of States
- An Interstate Compact
- A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States
- A political subdivision of a State
- Amtrak, acting on its own behalf or under a cooperative agreement with one or more States
- Any combination of the entities described above
Read the Notice of Funding Opportunity here.
Contact: Mr. Bryan Rodda, Office of Policy and Planning, Federal Railroad Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Room W38-203, Washington, DC 20590; email: Bryan.Rodda@dot.gov; phone: 202-493-0443.