Agricultural Conservation Easement Program — CFDA 10.931

Easement-program obligations at $6.03 billion

USAspending.gov records $6,027,023,868.98 in obligations under CFDA 10.931. One thousand seven hundred twenty-three awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.50 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical easement purchase price.

The assistance-listing title is AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROGRAM. CFDA 10.931 is the identifier. Other conservation listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $6.03 billion. Mixing those codes would invent a combined conservation total this packet does not contain.

USAspending.gov records the $6,027,023,868.98 obligation stock for CFDA 10.931 together with 1,723 awards, 62 recipients, and 51 states. Keep the easement program on 10.931 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Sixty-two recipients, many award rows

Sixty-two recipients share 1,723 awards, or about 27.8 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $6.03 billion evenly would assign about $97.2 million per recipient. State agencies and related easement holders are the unit this kind of listing usually names; the packet does not list the 62. Recipient count is the better organizational headcount than award count.

Fifty-one states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Easement dollars still concentrate where agricultural land and award sizes are large. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not an acre count

Among conservation listings, 10.931 is dense relative to its recipient set: 1,723 rows against 62 organizations. Parcel-level or multi-year actions can inflate award count relative to unique easements. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of farms conserved.” Recipients (62) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (1,723) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report acreage, soil type, or recorded-easement inventories. Citing 1,723 as acres or parcels would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus easement cash

The $6.03 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against easement-program awards — are not in the packet. A holder can show a large obligation stock while closings follow a different calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.931 to size the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an acreage inventory. Land records live in other series. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.931.

What the 10.931 tables omit

The easement-program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a parcel map, not a soil survey, and not a deed archive. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $6,027,023,868.98. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 1,723 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 51 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on easement purchases.

Where the easement table lives

The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.931 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other conservation listings. For 10.931 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.931’s 1,723 awards spread $6,027,023,868.98 across 62 recipients and 51 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 27.8 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 10.931 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census. Start on the program page for CFDA 10.931 before ranking this listing against other assistance rows.

Questions

How much is obligated for agricultural conservation easements?

USAspending.gov records $6,027,023,868.98 in obligations for CFDA 10.931. SpendingVault indexes 1,723 awards, 62 recipients, and 51 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not an acre count. CFDA 10.931’s $6.03 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.931 carry?

The listing shows 1,723 awards against 62 recipients, or about 27.8 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3.50 million per award. Award count is not an acre or parcel count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many recipients appear on CFDA 10.931?

The extract lists 62 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 10.931. Geographic coding covers 51 states. The packet does not name the 62 or publish acreage. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Is $6.03 billion already spent on easements?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.931’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or acres conserved. The $6.03 billion on 1,723 awards is the obligation figure.