Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Susan A. Fleming
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437984517
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) appropriated $8 billion for high and conventional speed passenger rail. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) was responsible for soliciting applications, evaluating them to determine program eligibility and technical merits, and selecting awards, which were announced in January 2010. This report examines the extent to which FRA: (1) applied its established criteria to select projects; (2) followed recommended practices for awarding discretionary grants; and (3) communicated outcomes to the public, compared with selected other Recovery Act competitive grant programs. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Author: Susan A. Fleming
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437935192
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) and subsequent appropriations have dramatically increased federal funds available for high speed intercity passenger rail from $120 million in FY 2008 and FY 2009 combined to $10.5 billion available in FY 2010. Other issues, such as developing industry capacity to supply rail equipment and fostering multiyear public support for such systems must be resolved. This report reviewed: (1) how states started or improved passenger rail services in the recent past; (2) rail industry plans to accommodate the increased passenger rail investments; and (3) Federal Railroad Admin. plans to oversee the use of federal intercity passenger rail funds. Charts and tables.

Author: Herr (au) Herr
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437987443
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provided more than $48 billion to the Department of Transportation (DoT) to be distributed through existing programs and through two new competitive grant programs ¿ high speed intercity passenger rail and the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. This testimony addresses the: (1) status and use of Recovery Act transportation funds; (2) outcomes and long-term benefits of Recovery Act transportation investments; and (3) lessons learned from DoT¿s and states¿ experiences implementing the Recovery Act. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Author: Susan A. Fleming
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) appropriated $8 billion for high and conventional speed passenger rail. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), within the Department of Transportation, was responsible for soliciting applications, evaluating them to determine program eligibility and technical merits, and selecting awards, which were announced in January 2010. This report examines the extent to which FRA (1) applied its established criteria to select projects, (2) followed recommended practices for awarding discretionary grants, and (3) communicated outcomes to the public, compared with selected other Recovery Act competitive grant programs. To address these topics GAO reviewed federal legislation, FRA documents, and guidance for other competitive grant programs using Recovery Act funds. GAO also analyzed data resulting from the evaluation and selection process and interviewed a cross-section of FRA officials and applicants.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office
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ISBN: 9781974623167
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) and subsequent appropriations have dramatically increased federal funds available for high speed intercity passenger rail from $120 million in fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2009 combined to $10.5 billion available in fiscal year 2010. Other issues, such as developing industry capacity to supply rail equipment and fostering multiyear public support for such systems must be resolved.As part of its efforts to assess Recovery Act initiatives, GAO reviewed (1) how states started or improved passenger rail services in the recent past, (2) rail industry plans to accommodate the increased passenger rail investments, and (3) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) plans to oversee the use of federal intercity passenger rail funds. GAO reviewed federal legislation; interviewed state, industry and federal officials; and reviewed selected literature.GAO is not making any recommendations. The Department of Transportation did not express an overall opinion on a draft of this report. It did provide technical and clarifying comments, which GAO incorporated...."

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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