Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program — CFDA 20.340

Intercity passenger-rail obligations at $592.6M

USAspending.gov records $592,649,586 in obligations under CFDA 20.340. Six awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $98.77 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical rail-construction invoice and not a cost per route-mile.

The assistance-listing title is FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL GRANT PROGRAM. CFDA 20.340 is the identifier. Other FRA, Amtrak, or FTA listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $592.6M. Combining those codes would invent a combined passenger-rail total this packet does not contain.

4 recipients on 6 award rows

Four recipients share 6 awards, or 1.5 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $592,649,586 evenly would assign about $148.16 million per recipient. That density is a mega-capital fingerprint: a short list of named organizations carrying very large assistance rows. The packet does not list the 4. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal extract, not a census of railroads or stations.

Four states in the geographic count matches the recipient headcount. Partnership dollars follow selected-corridor geography as coded, not a 50-state equal share. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Six awards are not a ridership census

Among DOT rail listings, 20.340 is an extreme low-row file: 6 awards against 4 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of corridors” and a worse proxy for riders. Recipients (4) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (6) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report route-miles, trainsets, or ridership. Citing 6 as completed corridors would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states. Six awards at about $98.77 million each is corridor-capital architecture, not a transit formula.

Obligations versus passenger-rail outlays

The $592.6M is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail awards — are not in the packet. A capital file 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 20.340 to size this intercity passenger-rail partnership listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a CRISI, Amtrak NEC, or FTA formula dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 20.340.

What the 20.340 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a timetable, not a railroad directory, and not a ridership log. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $592,649,586. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 6 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 4 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as a national rail total. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to grantees.

Intercity passenger rail’s 4-state map and 4-recipient headcount together describe a handful of large capital rows, not an FTA formula. A researcher comparing 20.340 with CRISI or Amtrak NEC codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The $592.6M stock is the USAspending obligation book for this listing only.

Where the 20.340 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 20.340 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other DOT listings. For 20.340 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 20.340’s 6 awards spread $592,649,586 across 4 recipients and 4 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $98.77 million per award is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Route-miles, trainsets, and ridership live in other FRA series. Those rows are outside $592,649,586 unless they share CFDA 20.340. Quote 6 as assistance records, 4 as organizational payees, and 4 as the geographic count.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail?

USAspending.gov records $592.6M in obligations for CFDA 20.340. SpendingVault indexes 6 awards, 4 recipients, and 4 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a ridership count. CFDA 20.340’s $592,649,586 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 20.340 carry?

The listing shows 6 awards against 4 recipients, or 1.5 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $98.77 million per award. Award count is not a count of corridors or riders. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 20.340 awards?

The extract lists 4 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 20.340, not a census of railroads or stations. Geographic coding covers 4 states. The packet does not name the 4 or publish route-miles. Keep dollars, awards, recipients, and geography as separate units on the USAspending extract.

Is $592.6M already paid for intercity passenger rail?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 20.340’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or miles built. The $592,649,586 on 6 awards is the obligation figure. Keep dollars, awards, recipients, and geography as separate units on the USAspending extract.