Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail (FSP) Grant Program (National)
General Grant Program Information
The Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program funds capital projects not located on the Northeast corridor that reduce the state of good repair backlog, improve performance, or expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service, including privately operated intercity passenger rail service.
A benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is required for this grant program. For more information about BCAs, see What Is a BCA? and USDOT's Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance for Discretionary Grants.
Eligibility Information
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants include the following:
- States (including the District of Columbia)
- A group of States
- An interstate compact
- A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States
- A political subdivision of a State
- Amtrak (acting on its own behalf or under a cooperative agreement with one or more States)
- Federally recognized Tribes
- Any combination of the entities described above
Eligible Uses
Eligible uses include the following:
- A project to replace, rehabilitate, or repair infrastructure, equipment, or a facility used for providing intercity passenger rail service to bring such assets into a state of good repair
- A project to improve intercity passenger rail service performance, including reduced trip times, increased train frequencies, higher operating speeds, improved reliability, expanded capacity, reduced congestion, electrification, and other improvements, as determined by the Secretary
- A project to expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service
- A group of related projects as described above
- The planning, environmental review, and final design of an eligible project or group of projects described above
Funding Information
The Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program will provide $1.5 billion in competitive grants from FY22 to FY26.
FRA is interested in supporting projects that are seeking funding for final design and/or construction, as defined in A.2, that directly improves passenger service frequency, reliability, and financial performance. These projects should develop a foundation for future expansion of intercity passenger rail by reducing the state of good repair backlog and/or improvements along shared private, public-private, and publicly owned infrastructure.
Examples include replacement or rehabilitation of rolling stock; expansion or rehabilitation of existing intercity passenger rail stations; improvements to track along existing routes such as replacement of existing track or the addition of track to increase capacity; and replacement or rehabilitation of bridges, power equipment and substations, maintenance facilities and equipment, and signals and communications.
There are no predetermined minimum or maximum dollar thresholds for awards. However, the maximum federal share of total project costs for FSP-N grants is 80 percent; the applicant must supply a minimum 20 percent using non-federal funds (in-kind contributions such as services, materials and equipment may be credited as a project cost).
There is a set-aside of a minimum of $6,277,500 for projects that benefit (in whole or in part) a long-distance route.
Contact Information
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