Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Minnesota

What the 20.500–Minnesota join is

CFDA 20.500 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, obligations sum to $965,570,130 on 5 awards. The national Capital Investment Grants hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $965,570,130 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of light-rail cars in Minneapolis or St. Paul.

Five awards is a concentrated capital-grant pattern: New Starts and related CIG projects often post as a small number of large assistance instruments. The join does not name Metro Transit, list stations, or count riders. Packet facts stop at $965,570,130, 5 awards, MN, and 20.500.

20.500 is not formula transit in Minnesota

Federal Transit Formula Grants (CFDA 20.507) is a different FTA catalog. Mixing formula dollars into $965,570,130 would invent a broader transit total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 20.500, $965,570,130, 5 awards. Project names and ridership are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Capital Investment Grants, not a ranking of on-time performance. Dividing $965,570,130 by 5 yields about $193.11 million per award—a capital-project scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5 is not a count of stations.

Questions

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

USAspending records $965,570,130 in CFDA 20.500 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 5 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not formula transit grants. Keep Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants and Minnesota together when citing $965,570,130.

Why are there only 5 awards for about $966 million?

Capital Investment Grants often post as a small number of large assistance instruments. The facts show 5 awards totaling $965,570,130. Project names are not in the packet. The mean is about $193.11 million. 5 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Minnesota’s total federal transit spend?

No. This join is CFDA 20.500 only. Formula grants and other FTA catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 20.500 is not limited to Minnesota. Obligations of $965,570,130 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants–Minnesota table.

Does five awards mean five rail lines?

5 is an award-record count, not a line 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 × MN pair. The overlay is the live Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants–Minnesota table.