Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements — CFDA 20.325

CRISI 20.325: 141 awards under $943.9M

Assistance listing 20.325 is titled CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $943,906,567.24. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $943.9M as signals already installed mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

141 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $943,906,567.24 by 141 produces a mean near $6.69 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical rail project bid. Keep 20.325 separate from other rail-assistance listings; combining CFDA codes would invent a total this packet does not contain.

107 recipients across 41 states

CFDA 20.325 lists 107 recipients and 41 states against 141 awards. Recipient count is not unique railroad employees. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. The 41-state span is coded place-of-performance on this listing only, not a map of every corridor and not a figure from any other CFDA code.

141 awards against 107 recipients averages about 1.3 award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 141 tally without moving $943,906,567.24 much. The 20.325 hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another, and so 20.325 is not collapsed into 20.337.

Obligations versus rail outlays on 20.325

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $943,906,567.24 figure for CFDA 20.325 can include multi-year construction commitments that will disburse later. An FRA grant announcement and a Treasury outlay series are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept or the other CRISI code. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 20.325 program page. Do not stretch 141 awards or 41 states to cover every federal dollar that touches rail.

What the 20.325 tables omit

The CRISI 20.325 hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a grade-crossing inventory, not a derailment file, and not another CFDA code’s dollar book. Series that never appear as assistance awards on 20.325 will not show up in the $943,906,567.24. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 141 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 41 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while track work sits in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 20.325

A complete citation is $943,906,567.24 in obligations for CFDA 20.325, covering 141 awards, 107 recipients, and 41 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations and name the code 20.325. If the question is award volume, lead with 141 awards and 41 states, then the $943.9M total.

Start with the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a bid instruction.

A worked reading of the 20.325 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $943,906,567.24, 141 awards, 107 recipients, and 41 states under CFDA 20.325. The mean near $6.69 million is a quotient from this listing’s award count, not a typical rail letting. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many small actions, 141 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few giant commitments post, $943.9M can jump without a matching jump in 107 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits passenger from freight. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 20.325 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files, separate from CFDA 20.337. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 141 awards and 41 states next to the dollars so this code’s wider geography is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under CRISI CFDA 20.325?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $943,906,567.24 in obligations for CFDA 20.325, Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total. The same extract lists 141 awards, 107 recipients, and 41 states.

How does CFDA 20.325 differ from CFDA 20.337?

This page cites only CFDA 20.325: $943,906,567.24, 141 awards, 107 recipients, and 41 states. CFDA 20.337 is a separate assistance listing with its own packet. Combining the two codes would invent a total this packet does not contain. Cite 20.325 on its own from USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Does the $943.9M total include rail work already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $943,906,567.24 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 141-award count is a record tally, not a count of track miles. Cite CFDA 20.325 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 20.325?

The extract codes 41 states for this CRISI listing. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a national rail map. Those rows still sit under the $943,906,567.24 obligation total and the 107-recipient count.