Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants obligations 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 Unique recipients are unpublished. 4 is not a count of stations.

Maryland geography on the CIG tag

MD is the place-of-performance code. A capital award can still appear as records tagged to Baltimore, Silver Spring, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Virginia or the District of Columbia stay outside $1,044,216,784 even when a metro line crosses those borders. The code does not convert $1.04 billion into a corridor map.

Maryland federal spending is the all-program parent. 20.500 is one row on Maryland programs. $1.04 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Maryland for the filtered table, CFDA 20.500 for 20.500 without a Maryland filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,044,216,784.

Reading 4 awards under $1.04 billion

$1,044,216,784 ÷ 4 is about $261.05 million per award. That average is a capital-grant scale, not a typical farebox recovery ratio. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 4 as a record count, not as 4 finished lines.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,044,216,784 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 4 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $1,044,216,784 without changing the join key of 20.500 and MD.

What the CIG–Maryland pair does not prove

A large 20.500 total tagged to Maryland does not measure whether ridership rose, and it does not equal steel in the ground. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $1,044,216,784 on 4 awards for Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Maryland.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants and Maryland, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,044,216,784 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 4 as a project census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a construction story.

Using the CIG–Maryland overlay

The overlay target is the Maryland × CFDA 20.500 table. Open Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Maryland when you want the same $1,044,216,784 / 4-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 20.500 drops the Maryland filter. Maryland federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Maryland programs lists other catalogs beside 20.500. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Maryland won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 20.500 plus MD. Obligations of $1,044,216,784 are not outlays.

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.