# Railroad, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Investigations

**Agency:** NTSB  
**Account:** Railroad, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Investigations  
**Source document:** NTSB · p. 19  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/ntsb/railroad-pipeline-hazardous-materials-investigations  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 15.2 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 15.3 |
| FY2027 | request | 15.3 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## NTSB discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $200.0M, FY2026 $100.0M. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Investigates railroad, pipeline, and hazardous materials accidents and incidents, and issues safety recommendations and alerts to regulators, carriers and pipeline operators, manufacturers, shippers, and emergency response organizations.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › NTSB › NTSB › Railroad, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Investigations


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*