Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail — CFDA 20.326

Eighty-five awards hold $6.30 billion

USAspending.gov records $6,296,719,941.33 in obligations under CFDA 20.326. Eighty-five awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $74.1 million per award — consistent with large capital partnership actions rather than thousands of small formula rows. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical station-project budget.

The assistance-listing title is FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL. CFDA 20.326 is the identifier. Other rail or highway listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $6.30 billion. Mixing those codes would invent a combined passenger-rail total this packet does not contain.

USAspending.gov records the $6,296,719,941.33 obligation stock for CFDA 20.326 together with 85 awards, 45 recipients, and 20 states. Keep the partnership listing on 20.326 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Forty-five recipients and a 20-state map

Forty-five recipients share 85 awards, or about 1.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $6.30 billion evenly would assign about $140 million per recipient. States, railroads, and related sponsors are the organizational units this kind of listing usually names; the packet does not list the 45. Recipient count is the better organizational headcount than award count.

Twenty states in the geographic count is the distinctive fact on this extract. Place-of-performance on 20 cells is not a statement that partnership activity cannot touch other jurisdictions through those recipients, but it is a much narrower code set than the 50-plus counts on nationwide formula files. Dollar amounts by place are on the program table.

Award count is not a route-mile count

Among transportation listings, 20.326 is sparse: 85 rows against $6.30 billion. Capital partnership awards often post as few large actions. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of corridors built.” Recipients (45) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (85) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report track miles, ridership, or completion dates. Citing 85 as stations or trainsets would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus rail-construction cash

The $6.30 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against partnership awards — are not in the packet. A sponsor can show a large obligation stock while construction draws follow a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 20.326 to size this intercity-rail partnership listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a ridership report or a construction schedule. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 20.326.

What the 20.326 tables omit

The Federal-State Partnership hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a timetable, not a station inventory, and not an environmental-review docket. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $6,296,719,941.33. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 85 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 20 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those 20 cells as the only places dollars can flow. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on track or rolling stock.

Where the partnership table lives

The Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 20.326 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other transportation listings. For 20.326 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 20.326’s 85 awards spread $6,296,719,941.33 across 45 recipients and 20 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. Twenty coded jurisdictions is the geography story; about $74.1 million per award is the concentration story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 20.326 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census.

Questions

How much is obligated for the intercity passenger rail partnership?

USAspending.gov records $6,296,719,941.33 in obligations for CFDA 20.326. SpendingVault indexes 85 awards, 45 recipients, and 20 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a route-mile count. CFDA 20.326’s $6.30 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why does CFDA 20.326 show only 20 states?

The extract codes 20 states on place-of-performance for 85 awards and 45 recipients. That is a stored geographic count, not a policy statement that other jurisdictions are ineligible. Partnership dollars can still concentrate on a few corridors. Place amounts are on the program page.

How many recipients appear on CFDA 20.326?

The extract lists 45 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 20.326. A simple average is about $74.1 million per award. The packet does not name the 45 or publish ridership. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Is $6.30 billion already spent on passenger rail?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 20.326’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or miles of track completed. The $6.30 billion on 85 awards is the obligation figure.