FY26-22-Baltimore Penn Station Facility Improvements

The Baltimore Penn Station Facility Improvements grant is a federal transportation funding opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Federal Railroad Administration. The opportunity is identified by Funding Opportunity Number FR-CRS-22-006 and is associated with Assistance Listing 20.337, Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program. The opportunity is discretionary and uses a grant as its funding instrument. The Grants.gov synopsis was posted on August 20, 2026. The program is expected to make one award, with estimated total program funding of $5,000,000 and an award ceiling of $5,000,000. The stated purpose of the grant is to fund multimodal infrastructure investments around Baltimore Penn Station. These investments are intended to improve transit, walking, and bicycling connections and support the station's role as an intermodal hub in the heart of Baltimore City. The investments are also intended to enable passenger traffic through Baltimore Penn Station to grow. The source therefore establishes a transportation and infrastructure focus centered specifically on connections to and around Baltimore Penn Station rather than describing a broadly available transportation grant competition. Eligibility is specifically limited in the Grants.gov synopsis to the Maryland Transit Administration, identified as MTA/MARC. Grants.gov places the opportunity under the general applicant classification of "Others" and directs readers to the additional eligibility information for clarification, where Maryland Transit Administration is expressly named. Because the named applicant is a Maryland state transportation entity and the funded improvements concern Baltimore Penn Station, this is not a nationwide applicant opportunity. The project scope identified in the source is centered on Baltimore City and Baltimore Penn Station. The source does not identify additional eligible applicants or describe an open competition among nonprofit organizations, local governments, businesses, institutions of higher education, or individuals. The opportunity requires cost sharing or matching. Grants.gov expressly identifies the Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement as "Yes." However, the supplied synopsis does not state the required percentage, ratio, dollar amount, or other formula for the applicant contribution. Accordingly, the existence of a matching requirement is confirmed, but its amount cannot be determined from the supplied source. The source also does not provide detailed spending restrictions, indirect cost limitations, subaward limitations, a period of performance, or a breakdown of allowable and unallowable project costs beyond stating that the grant will fund multimodal infrastructure investments around Baltimore Penn Station for transit, walking, and bicycling connections. The current and original closing date for applications is September 4, 2026. The opportunity was posted on August 20, 2026, and the Grants.gov page provides an Apply function, but the supplied synopsis does not separately identify an official application opening date. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating deadline is identified in the supplied material. The source also does not identify recurring annual or other periodic application cycles. No application questions, required narrative sections, required uploads, evaluation criteria, scoring factors, notification date, anticipated award date, or performance-period dates are included in the supplied Grants.gov information. Applicants are directed through the opportunity listing and its linked additional information page for further announcement information. For technical difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, the listed contact is the GrantSolutions Help Desk. The Help Desk can be reached at help@grantsolutions.gov or by telephone at 1.866.577.0771 or 202.401.5282. Its stated hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET. The Grants.gov archive date is October 4, 2026. No individual program contact is named in the supplied source, and no explicit PDF URL is provided. The available information therefore establishes a September 4, 2026 application deadline, a single anticipated award, $5,000,000 in estimated program funding, a required but unspecified match, and a project purpose focused on improving multimodal access and passenger connections at Baltimore Penn Station.

Align the proposed work with the stated purpose of multimodal infrastructure investments around Baltimore Penn Station that improve transit, walking, and bicycling connections, support the station's role as an intermodal hub, and enable passenger traffic through the station to grow.