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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

$1,817,500,000

Department of Transportation·Federal Railroad Administration

to NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION

transportationactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2019 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2019-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-11·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_69A36520501210AMTDC_069
Award description

FY20 NATIONAL NETWORK GRANT TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

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In plain English

Operating grant to Amtrak for long-distance passenger rail service across the National Network through January 2029.

Sub-sectors
passenger-railamtrak-operating-grantnational-network
Why this matters

Sustains intercity rail connectivity in rural and underserved regions where commercial service is unviable; part of ongoing federal subsidy for national passenger rail.

Supply-chain signal

Supports rail operators, maintenance contractors, and regional supply chains dependent on Amtrak service continuity.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002783.

Period of performance
Start
2019-10-01
End
2029-01-31
Status
activein 946 days
Sources

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