FY22 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Grant Program

Background
The FY22 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Grant Program aims to fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail. The program seeks to invest in a wide range of projects within the United States to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and reliability; mitigate congestion at both intercity passenger and freight rail chokepoints to support more efficient travel and goods movement; enhance multi-modal connections; and lead to new or substantially improved Intercity Passenger Rail Transportation corridors.

Grant Details
The notice details the application requirements and procedures to obtain grant funding for eligible projects under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program for Fiscal Year 2022. This includes soliciting applications for program funds made available by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The program also includes funds for eligible projects under the Magnetic Levitation Technology Deployment Program.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include states, groups of states, interstate compacts, public agencies or publicly chartered authorities established by one or more states, political subdivisions of a state, Amtrak or another rail carrier providing intercity rail passenger transportation, Class II or Class III railroads including any holding company of a Class II or Class III railroad, an association representing one or more railroads described previously, federally recognized Indian tribes, any rail carrier or rail equipment manufacturer in partnership with eligible entities mentioned earlier. Additionally, non-profit labor organizations representing employees of rail carriers or rail carrier contractors are also eligible.

Period of Performance
Applications for funding under this solicitation are due no later than 5 p.m. ET on December 1, 2022. Applications that are incomplete or received after this deadline will not be considered for funding.

Grant Value
The total funding available for awards under this NOFO is $1,427,462,902. This includes $2 million in FY 2021 funding for the Maglev Grant Program. Certain funding amounts are set aside for specific purposes such as rural area projects ($376,035,000), intercity passenger rail service routes ($150 million), trespassing measures ($25 million), and magnetic levitation deployment projects ($2 million in 2021 Appropriation funding).

Place of Performance
The grant program is intended to fund projects within the United States that aim to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and reliability.