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RCED-95-152R 1 (1995-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackuj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States G A O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-260800 April 13, 1995 The Honorable Mark 0. Hatfield Chairman The Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Transportation Committee on Appropriations United States Senate This correspondence answers certain questions raised at the March 23, 1995, Senate appropriations hearing on the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). During the hearing, you asked us to provide you with data on the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project's (NECIP) funding and expenditures on Amtrak's rail right-of- way between Washington, D.C., and Boston, Massachusetts. In 1976, the Congress passed the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act, under which it created NECIP. The purpose of the project was to achieve regular high-speed passenger rail service on the corridor between Washington, D.C., and Boston, Massachusetts. The responsibility for implementing the NECIP program initially rested with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), but management responsibility was transferred to Amtrak in 1985. We are providing the following requested information: (1) amounts appropriated for NECIP and obligated to date on the south end (Washington, D.C., to New York City) and the north end (New York City to Boston) of the corridor, (2) estimates of the amount needed to complete high-speed rail improvements on the north end between now and 2000, (3) the estimated amount of capital funds needed to restore the south end of the corridor to a state of good repair, and (4) estimates of the amount needed to complete other improvements to track capacity and aging infrastructure on the north end between 2000 and 2010. In summary, the federal government has appropriated and obligated about $3.3 billion to provide high-speed passenger service throughout the corridor. Amtrak estimates that it needs about $900 million from now through 1999 to complete improvements to initiate high-speed service on the north end. It also needs at least $2.5 billion to GAO/RCED-95-152R, Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Funding Needs

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