---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 22904"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "22904"
heading: "Use of capital grants to finance first-dollar liability of grant project"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/22904"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Rail Programs"
  - "Part B — Assistance"
  - "Chapter 229 — Rail Improvement Grants"
---

# §22904. Use of capital grants to finance first-dollar liability of grant project


Notwithstanding the requirements of [section 22902](/usc/49/22902.md) of this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/49/22401.md?p=14) of Transportation may approve the use of a capital assistance grant under this chapter to fund self-insured retention of risk for the first tier of liability insurance coverage for rail passenger service associated with the grant, but the coverage may not exceed $20,000,000 per occurrence or $20,000,000 in aggregate per year.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title III, § 301(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4942, § 24404; renumbered § 22904 and amended Pub. L. 115–420, § 7(a)(1), (b)(2)(B), Jan. 3, 2019, 132 Stat. 5445, 5446.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 115–420 renumbered section 24404 of this title as this section and substituted “section 22902” for “section 24402”.