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2005-06 – 2015-16 California State Rail Plan §1601 Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) This program, also continued from TEA-21, provides three types of credit financing methods for nationally or regionally significant projects. The minimum threshold for projects is lowered to $50 million. Eligible projects include public freight rail facilities or private rail facilities that demonstrate public benefit. §9002: Rail Line Relocation Grants This new $1.4 billion rail program provides states with funding to mitigate the adverse effects of rail traffic on safety, motor vehicle traffic flow, community quality of life, or economic development by relocating railroad lines away from downtown areas. Fifty percent of the funds are dedicated to projects of $20 million or less; states or non-Federal entities must pay at least ten percent of project costs. §9003: Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing This program provides direct loans and loan guarantees to various public and private entities, including railroads, joint ventures that include at least one railroad, for projects that are solely for the purpose of constructing a rail connection between a plant or facility and a second rail carrier for plants served by no more than a single railroad. §9007: Study of Rail Rehabilitation and Regulation This is a new $1.8 million program to evaluate the status of the national rail system since the passage of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. This study will be conducted by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The study will consider the performance of the nation’s railroads regarding service levels, service quality and rates; projected demand for rail service over the next 20 years and the constraints to meeting that demand; effectiveness of public policy in balancing the business needs of the railroads with those of shippers; future role of the STB in regulating railroad rates, service levels and the railroads’ common carrier obligations if/when railroads become “revenue adequate.” STATE PROGRAMS Most of the states participated in the Federal program in the 1970s and 1980s when it was well funded, although many states, mostly outside of the Northeast and Midwest, were slow to get involved. At that time, the Class Is owned most light density lines. The principal issue was branch line abandonment as the larger carriers sought to rationalize their systems in an attempt to address their financial problems. Abandonment cases were common and were fought on both the planning (with assistance funding) and regulatory fronts. Today, the problem is assisting short line operators. As a result of the spin-off process that was made possible by railroad deregulation, short line operators have inherited the vast majority of the remaining Class I branch lines. Many short line 202
Chapter XVII - Funding operators manage to continue service in cases where the Class Is would have filed for abandonment. There are 31 states outside California that provide assistance for short line railroad infrastructure improvement projects (see Figure 17A). Figure 17A Assistance Programs for State Short Line Railroads Funds Available State Name of Program ($ in millions) Grant or Loan Connecticut 70/30 Freight Program $0.5 Grant Florida Transportation Outreach Program $5.4 Grant Georgia State Rail Improvement Funds $0.8 Grant Idaho Rail Service Preservation Currently Unfunded Grant or Loan Illinois State Loan Fund $2.9 Loan Indiana Industrial Rail Service Fund $1.5 Loan Iowa Rail Assistance Program $1.9 Grant and Loan Kansas Rail Service Improvement Fund $0.2 Loan Maine Industrial Rail Access $2.6 Grant Maryland Transportation Trust Fund $1.6 Grant Massachusetts Industrial Rail Access Currently Unfunded Grant Michigan Rail Loan Assistance $1.8 Loan Minnesota Rail Service Improvement $8.0 Grant and Loan Mississippi Railroad Revitalization Fund $1.0 Grant Missouri Rail Preservation Fund $2.4 Grant and Loan Montana Rail Service Assistance $1.1 Loan Nebraska Revolving Loan Fund $1.9 Loan New Hampshire Rail Line Revolving Loan $4.0 Loan New Jersey State Rail Assistance $10.0 Grant New York Industrial Rail Access $1.0 Grant North Carolina Rail Industrial Access $2.5 Grant North Dakota Freight Railroad Improvement $6.0 Loan Ohio Rail Development Program $6.5 Grant and Loan Oklahoma Railroad Maintenance Fund $2.4 Grant Oregon Economic Development Fund $4.5 Grant Pennsylvania Rail Freight Assistance Program $1.8 Grant Tennessee Transportation Equity Fund $1.2 Grant Vermont Rail Economic Enhancement $0.6 Grant Virginia Railroad Preservation Fund Rail Industrial Act Fund $2.5 $2.0 Grant Grant Washington Essential Rail Assistance $1.0 Grant Wisconsin Railroad Service Assistance $11.1 Loan 203
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California State Rail Plan 2005-06
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Honorable Alan Lowenthal Honorable
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CALIFORNIA STATE RAIL PLAN 2005-06
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Table of Contents Table of Contents
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Executive Summary California State
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THE DEPARTMENT’S MISSION AND GOAL
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service levels, service extensions,
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