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Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority
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- Development authority — Regional railroad authority organised under Minnesota Statutes chapter 398A as a political subdivision and local government unit of the state; a funder of rail projects rather than a buyer of rail work
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- United States · Minnesota
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Ramsey County rail authority works on transit and transit-oriented development addressing mobility and congestion.
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Holds the statutory power at Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04 to plan, acquire, construct, maintain, equip and operate railroads and railroad facilities within its jurisdiction, and to make grants or otherwise appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council or any other state or local governmental unit for railroad purposes, whether or not the facilities will be owned or operated by the authority. It may not expend state or federal funds on light rail or commuter rail planning or development except consistently with plans adopted by MnDOT under section 174.84 and by the Metropolitan Council under section 473.399 and under a memorandum of understanding with the commissioner. Ramsey County's own page states the authority in its own words: 'established as a separate government unit that works on various transit and transit-oriented development projects that address the region's need for mobility, improved transportation affordability, mitigation of traffic congestion, and enhanced environmental quality. Organized under Minnesota Statute 398, it is considered a separate taxing district from Ramsey County.' Its board is the seven members of the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners.
- Type
- Development authority — Regional railroad authority organised under Minnesota Statutes chapter 398A as a political subdivision and local government unit of the state; a funder of rail projects rather than a buyer of rail work
- Where
- Minnesota · Saint Paul
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
Structure
- member of MnDOT — Named by MnDOT among the partners in the Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago passenger rail project (active)
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Sources for these relationships (3)
- ● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Borealis — daily St. Paul–Milwaukee–Chicago round trip begun 21 May 2024 over part of the 411-mile Empire Builder corridor; capital funding of a $31.8 million FRA CRISI grant of September 2020 with $5 million from Amtrak, $11.8 million from MnDOT and $6.5 million from WisDOT; operating support of a $12.6 million FRA Restoration & Enhancement grant of May 2020 and a second of $38.6 million in January 2025; project schedule with final design 2021-2026 and construction 2026-2028 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Ramsey County · Railroad & Housing Authorities - the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners' own page (HTML, 9,184 bytes on 14 September 2026 to a plain curl). Publishes the Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority's mandate ('established as a separate government unit that works on various transit and transit-oriented development projects... Organized under Minnesota Statute 398, it is considered a separate taxing district from Ramsey County'), its composition as the seven members of the County Board, its meeting archive and the Board of Commissioners' contact desk Ramsey County publishes no budget document for the authority on this page, and the county's own site search is rendered client-side and returns no results to curl, so no budget or levy figure is carried for the Ramsey authority. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota · 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04, Powers of a regional railroad authority: subdivision 1(4) empowers an authority to 'make grants or otherwise appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council, or any other state or local governmental unit' for railroad purposes within its jurisdiction; subdivision 2 empowers it to plan, acquire, construct, maintain and operate railroads and railroad facilities, and bars it from expending state or federal funds on light rail or commuter rail planning or development except consistently with plans adopted under sections 174.84 and 473.399 and under a memorandum of understanding with the commissioner (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
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- ● Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota · 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04, Powers of a regional railroad authority: subdivision 1(4) empowers an authority to 'make grants or otherwise appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council, or any other state or local governmental unit' for railroad purposes within its jurisdiction; subdivision 2 empowers it to plan, acquire, construct, maintain and operate railroads and railroad facilities, and bars it from expending state or federal funds on light rail or commuter rail planning or development except consistently with plans adopted under sections 174.84 and 473.399 and under a memorandum of understanding with the commissioner (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota · 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 398A.03, Organization of a regional railroad authority — an authority is organized by resolution of one or more county governing bodies as 'a political subdivision and local government unit of Minnesota, to exercise thereunder part of the sovereign power of the state' (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Borealis — daily St. Paul–Milwaukee–Chicago round trip begun 21 May 2024 over part of the 411-mile Empire Builder corridor; capital funding of a $31.8 million FRA CRISI grant of September 2020 with $5 million from Amtrak, $11.8 million from MnDOT and $6.5 million from WisDOT; operating support of a $12.6 million FRA Restoration & Enhancement grant of May 2020 and a second of $38.6 million in January 2025; project schedule with final design 2021-2026 and construction 2026-2028 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Ramsey County · Railroad & Housing Authorities - the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners' own page (HTML, 9,184 bytes on 14 September 2026 to a plain curl). Publishes the Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority's mandate ('established as a separate government unit that works on various transit and transit-oriented development projects... Organized under Minnesota Statute 398, it is considered a separate taxing district from Ramsey County'), its composition as the seven members of the County Board, its meeting archive and the Board of Commissioners' contact desk Ramsey County publishes no budget document for the authority on this page, and the county's own site search is rendered client-side and returns no results to curl, so no budget or levy figure is carried for the Ramsey authority. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
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