49 USC 24319 – Grant process and reporting
(a)
(1) establish and maintain substantive and procedural requirements, including schedules, for grant requests under this section; and
(2) report any changes to such procedures to—
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;
(B) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
(C) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
Terms Used In 49 USC 24319
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
- writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1
(b)
(c)
(1)
(A) categorize and identify, by source, the Federal funds and program income that will be used for the upcoming fiscal year for each of the Northeast Corridor and National Network in 1 of the categories or subcategories set forth in paragraph (2);
(B) describe the operations, services, programs, projects, and other activities to be funded within each of the categories set forth in paragraph (2), including—
(i) the estimated scope, schedule, and budget necessary to complete each project and program; and
(ii) the performance measures used to quantify expected and actual project outcomes and benefits, aggregated by fiscal year, project milestone, and any other appropriate grouping; and
(C) describe the status of efforts to improve Amtrak’s safety culture.
(2)
(A)
(i) include estimated net operating costs not covered by other Amtrak revenue sources;
(ii) specify Federal funding requested for each service line described in section 24320(b)(1); and
(iii) be itemized by route.
(B)
(C)
(i) normalized capital replacement programs, including regularly recurring work programs implemented on a systematic basis on classes of physical railroad assets, such as track, structures, electric traction and power systems, rolling stock, and communications and signal systems, to maintain and sustain the condition and performance of such assets to support continued railroad operations;
(ii) improvement projects to support service and safety enhancements, including discrete projects implemented in accordance with a fixed scope, schedule, and budget that result in enhanced or new infrastructure, equipment, or facilities;
(iii) backlog capital replacement projects, including discrete projects implemented in accordance with a fixed scope, schedule, and budget that primarily replace or rehabilitate major infrastructure assets, including tunnels, bridges, stations, and similar assets, to reduce the state of good repair backlog on the Amtrak network;
(iv) strategic initiative projects, including discrete projects implemented in accordance with a fixed scope, schedule, and budget that primarily improve overall operational performance, lower costs, or otherwise improve Amtrak’s corporate efficiency; and
(v) statutory, regulatory, or other legally mandated projects, including discrete projects implemented in accordance with a fixed scope, schedule, and budget that enable Amtrak to fulfill specific legal or regulatory mandates.
(D)
(i) contingency levels for specified activities and operations; and
(ii) a process for the utilization of such contingency.
(3)
(d)
(1)
(A)
(i) the request is approved; or
(ii) the request is disapproved, including the reason for the disapproval and an explanation of any deficient items.
(B)
(2)
(3)
(e)
(1)
(2)
(A) 50 percent on October 1.
(B) 25 percent on January 1.
(C) 25 percent on April 1.
(3)
(A) using an otherwise allowable approach to the method prescribed for a specific project or category of projects under paragraph (2) if the Secretary and Amtrak agree that a different payment method is necessary to more successfully implement and report on an operation, service, program, project, or other activity;
(B) more frequently than the schedule under paragraph (2) if Amtrak, for good cause, requests more frequent payment before the end of a payment period; or
(C) with a different frequency or in different percentage allocations in the event of a continuing resolution or in the absence of an appropriations Act for the duration of a fiscal year.
(f)
(g)
(h)
(1)
(2)
(i)
(j)