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FRA's National Railroad Partnership Program (statutory name: Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail, 49 U.S.C. 24911) is a competitive discretionary capital-assistance program funding state-of-good-repair, safety, and expansion projects on intercity passenger rail lines outside the Northeast Corridor. On 24 September 2025 FRA withdrew the prior FY2024 NOFO and reissued it to cover combined FY2024-2025 funding, making up to USD 5,070,784,989 available for award (funding opportunity ID FR-FSP-25-006), including approximately USD 2.4bn de-obligated from the California High-Speed Rail project. The reissue removed selection criteria tied to DEI and climate/greenhouse-gas performance that had been attached to the program under the prior administration, per Secretary Sean Duffy's public statement accompanying the announcement.
Like other FRA and FTA discretionary capital programs already tracked in this register (FTA FY2025 Bus/Low-No grants; EPA WIFIA loans), FSP-National awards are subject to the Build America, Buy America Act's standing domestic-content and final-assembly requirements — rolling stock, iron, steel, and manufactured products purchased with award funds must be produced in the United States. Global Trade Alert logs the NOFO itself (rather than individual downstream awards) as a single public-procurement- localisation intervention. Applications were due 7 January 2026; FRA has not yet published the award list as of this filing.
passenger-rail procurement (rolling stock, track, stations) toward US-based suppliers under BABA, at the exclusion of non-US-assembled equipment and foreign manufactured inputs — consistent with the recurring Buy America procurement-localisation architecture already seen in the FTA bus/Low-No and EPA WIFIA/DWSRF actions in this register.
signals a broader administration reallocation of IIJA-era rail capital away from the CAHSR program toward other state/regional intercity rail projects nationally.
factors in federal rail grant competitions relative to the prior NOFO version, a pattern consistent with other FY2025-26 discretionary grant reissues under the current administration.
filing (applications closed 7 January 2026); downstream consumers should watch for a Federal Register award announcement analogous to the FTA bus/Low-No 15 January 2026 notice.
published 22 April 2026) carries the same DEI/climate-criteria removal — not yet reviewed for a separate filing.