Montana 1st District

Department of Transportation and Montana 1st District (MT-01) as a USAspending pair

Awarding agency 069 and congressional district MT-01 meet here. $841,600,567.61 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Transportation’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOT operating administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 616 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership total, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $841,600,567.61 by 616 yields about $1,366,234.69 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 616 awards is a mid-size DOT file. The implied mean is a ratio, not a posted per-mile figure — no mileage denominator is in the packet. Do not treat MT-01’s 069 cell as a synonym for every Transportation account nationwide. Open Montana 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Transportation for agency 069 without the MT-01 filter, Montana federal spending for every awarding agency in the Montana extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $841,600,567.61.

How USAspending labels Department of Transportation

USAspending labels awarding agency 069 as Department of Transportation. That code produced $841,600,567.61 when crossed with Montana 1st District (MT-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 069 hub does not require MT-01 geography. The district hub does not require Transportation. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 616 awards. The packet does not split DOT operating administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Montana 1st District (MT-01) did not “cause” $841,600,567.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 069 × MT-01 only. It is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership total, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Questions

How much Transportation spending is coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01)?

USAspending.gov lists $841,600,567.61 in Transportation (agency 069) obligations across 616 awards coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Montana’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 9.9% of the district’s published total ($8,507,785,008.14). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $841,600,567.61 include every Transportation program in MT-01?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOT operating administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $841,600,567.61 is the combined obligation sum for agency 069 inside MT-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 616 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $841,600,567.61 cash already paid in Montana 1st District (MT-01)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $841,600,567.61 as checks already cleared in Montana 1st District (MT-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 616 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

How does this Transportation cell relate to Montana statewide spending?

Montana federal spending is the Montana statewide extract across awarding agencies. $841,600,567.61 is the Department of Transportation amount inside Montana 1st District (MT-01) only, not the statewide Transportation total. Adding Montana federal spending to $841,600,567.61 double-counts. Agency 069 nationwide lives on Department of Transportation. This join is 069 × MT-01.