Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program — CFDA 20.337

CRISI 20.337: 57 awards under $966.6M

Assistance listing 20.337 is titled CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $966,601,744. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $966.6M as track already laid mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

57 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $966,601,744 by 57 produces a mean near $16.96 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical rail project bid and not a cost per mile. CRISI dollars on this code often sit on a modest number of large capital actions, which is why 57 records can carry $966.6M.

54 recipients in 27 states, not a national rail map

CFDA 20.337 lists 54 recipients and 27 states against 57 awards. Recipient count is not unique railroad employees. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. Awards (57) and recipients (54) sit close together. The 27-state span is the distinctive geography: coded place-of-performance covers about half a 50-state map, not every freight corridor.

Because 57 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large actions can move $966,601,744 without a matching jump in the 54-recipient count. The 20.337 hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. Do not add CFDA 20.325 dollars to this $966.6M; that is a different listing.

Obligations versus rail-construction outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $966,601,744 figure for CFDA 20.337 can include multi-year construction commitments that will disburse later. A FRA grant announcement, a railroad capital plan, 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 a different CFDA code. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 20.337 program page. Do not stretch 57 awards or 27 states to cover every federal dollar that touches rail safety.

What the 20.337 tables omit

The CRISI 20.337 hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a grade-crossing inventory, not a derailment file, and not a timetable. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $966,601,744. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 57 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 27 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 20.337

A complete citation is $966,601,744 in obligations for CFDA 20.337, covering 57 awards, 54 recipients, and 27 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations and name the code 20.337. If the question is geographic coverage, lead with 27 states, then the $966.6M 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 20.337 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $966,601,744, 57 awards, 54 recipients, and 27 states under CFDA 20.337. The mean near $16.96 million is a quotient from a modest award count, not a typical rail letting. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large capital actions, dollars can jump while 27 states barely move. If modifications proliferate, 57 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $966.6M.

Nothing in the extract splits passenger from freight, or safety from capacity. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 20.337 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files, separate from CFDA 20.325. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 57 awards and 27 states next to the dollars so the limited geography is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under CRISI CFDA 20.337?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $966,601,744 in obligations for CFDA 20.337, Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a miles-of-track score. The same extract lists 57 awards, 54 recipients, and 27 states.

Is CFDA 20.337 the same as CFDA 20.325?

No. This page cites only CFDA 20.337: $966,601,744 in obligations, 57 awards, 54 recipients, and 27 states. CFDA 20.325 is a separate assistance listing with its own packet. Combining the two codes would invent a total this packet does not contain. Cite 20.337 on its own from USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Does the $966.6M total include rail work already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $966,601,744 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 57-award count is a record tally, not a count of track miles. Cite CFDA 20.337 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 20.337?

The extract codes 27 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 $966,601,744 obligation total and the 54-recipient count.