Intercity Passenger Rail awarded by Transportation

Intercity Passenger Rail overlapping DOT — CFDA 20.326

The pair is Federal-State Partnership For Intercity Passenger Rail × Department of Transportation. $6,296,719,941.33 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 20.326 and awarding-agency 069. The join obligation $6,296,719,941.33 equals the CFDA program total of $6,296,719,941.33 in this extract, so this packet does not publish a leftover Intercity Passenger Rail slice at a second awarding agency. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that Department of Transportation caused Intercity Passenger Rail activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a corridor ranking or a named railroad-project roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL. The agency name on the awarding side is Department of Transportation. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $6,296,719,941.33 as obligations on the Intercity Passenger Rail–DOT pair.

CFDA 20.326 as the intercity passenger rail side

CFDA 20.326 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Federal-State Partnership For Intercity Passenger Rail. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $6,296,719,941.33. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the Department of Transportation slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $6,296,719,941.33 as cash Treasury already sent. Corridors, sponsors, and route miles are unpublished on this packet.

Agency 069, Department of Transportation

Department of Transportation is awarding-agency 069 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub Department of Transportation at /agencies/069/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only Intercity Passenger Rail. Reading $6,296,719,941.33 as Department of Transportation’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $6,296,719,941.33. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts.

85 awards as a CFDA table, not a corridor census

The extract lists 85 awards on the Intercity Passenger Rail × Department of Transportation table. That is an award-record count, not a census of rail corridors. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $6,296,719,941.33 by 85 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

85 is the award-record count on this extract, not a published census of rail corridors. Unique vendors and places of performance are unpublished. Do not read 85 as 85 finished projects in Intercity Passenger Rail.

Ridership rankings this rail–DOT join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $6,296,719,941.33 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Intercity Passenger Rail over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Department of Transportation specialized in Intercity Passenger Rail because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $6,296,719,941.33 labeled as Federal-State Partnership For Intercity Passenger Rail obligations awarded by Department of Transportation.

Hubs for CFDA 20.326 × agency 069

Open /programs/20.326/ for CFDA 20.326, /agencies/069/ for Department of Transportation, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a corridor ranking or a named railroad-project roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Federal-State Partnership For Intercity Passenger Rail and Department of Transportation, $6,296,719,941.33, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Keep the citation narrow: CFDA 20.326 and awarding-agency 069 on USAspending.gov, obligations only, with no invented recipients. Corridors, sponsors, and route miles are unpublished on this packet.

Questions

How much did Department of Transportation award on Federal-State Partnership For Intercity Passenger Rail?

USAspending.gov records $6,296,719,941.33 in Federal-State Partnership For Intercity Passenger Rail obligations awarded by Department of Transportation (CFDA 20.326, agency 069) across 85 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not Department of Transportation’s entire book.

Is the intercity-rail total an outlay?

No. $6,296,719,941.33 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Intercity Passenger Rail awarded by Department of Transportation. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does 85 awards mean 85 rail corridors?

No. 85 is an award-record count, not a census of rail corridors. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Which pages parent Intercity Passenger Rail and DOT?

/programs/20.326/ is the program parent. /agencies/069/ is the Department of Transportation parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Intercity Passenger Rail × DOT at $6,296,719,941.33.