WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has selected five projects in two states to receive more than $6.9 million in Special Transportation Circumstances (STC) Grants made available by the...
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- September 28, 2020
- September 28, 2020
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA...
- September 23, 2020
- August 28, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today submitted to the Federal Register a final rule allowing railroads to use ultrasonic inspection technology, augmented with global positioning system (GPS)...
- August 12, 2020
PTC systems governing operations on 98.8% of all 57,537 PTC-mandated route miles
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today released a quarterly status update on...
- July 7, 2020The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded more than half a million dollars in Railroad Trespassing Enforcement Grants to law enforcement agencies today to support life-saving trespass abatement in multiple...
- June 10, 2020
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Grant Program (Partnership Program). The NOFO...
- June 9, 2020
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the availability of $293,000 in competitive grant funds for Railroad Trespassing Suicide Prevention Program projects.
The notice of funding...
- May 27, 2020WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the recipients of more than $302 million in grant funds under the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program (Partnership Program)...
- May 15, 2020PTC systems governing operations on 98% of all 58,000 PTC-mandated route miles