Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Maryland

What the 20.500–Maryland join is

CFDA 20.500 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS. Crossed with Maryland place of performance, obligations sum to $1,044,216,784 on 4 awards. The national Capital Investment Grants hub includes other states. Maryland’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $1,044,216,784 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rail cars in Baltimore or the Washington suburbs.

Four awards is a concentrated capital-grant pattern: New Starts, Small Starts, and Core Capacity projects often post as a small number of large assistance instruments. The join does not name MDOT, WMATA, or MTA, list stations, or count riders. Packet facts stop at $1,044,216,784, 4 awards, MD, and 20.500.

20.500 is not formula transit grants

Federal Transit Formula Grants (CFDA 20.507) is a different FTA catalog. Mixing formula dollars into $1,044,216,784 would invent a broader transit total than this cell contains. Facts available: Maryland, CFDA 20.500, $1,044,216,784, 4 awards. Project names, Full Funding Grant Agreement dates, and ridership are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Capital Investment Grants, not a ranking of on-time performance. Dividing $1,044,216,784 by 4 yields about $261.05 million per award—a capital-project scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4 is not a count of stations.

Questions

How much FTA Capital Investment Grant funding is obligated in Maryland?

USAspending records $1,044,216,784 in CFDA 20.500 obligations with Maryland place of performance on 4 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not formula transit grants. Keep Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants and Maryland together when citing $1,044,216,784.

Why are there only 4 awards for about $1.04 billion?

Capital Investment Grants often post as a small number of large assistance instruments. The facts show 4 awards totaling $1,044,216,784. Project names are not in the packet. The mean is about $261.05 million. 4 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Maryland’s total federal transit spend?

No. This join is CFDA 20.500 only. Formula grants and other FTA catalogs appear on separate Maryland program pages. Nationwide 20.500 is not limited to Maryland. Obligations of $1,044,216,784 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants–Maryland table.

Does four awards mean four rail lines?

4 is an award-record count, not a line or station census. A transit agency can be the awardee even when many contractors work downstream. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.500 × MD pair.