Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs — CFDA 15.504

Construction dollars concentrated on 94 awards

Assistance listing 15.504 is titled WATER RECYCLING AND DESALINATION CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $1,013,074,064.12. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $1.01B as concrete already poured mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

94 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $1,013,074,064.12 by 94 produces a mean near $10.78 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical plant bid and not a cost per acre-foot. Water-recycling and desalination construction dollars often sit on a small set of large capital actions, which is why 94 records can carry $1.01B.

11 states only: a narrow geographic file

CFDA 15.504 lists 69 recipients and 11 states against 94 awards. Recipient count is not unique households served by recycled water. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A water district can appear on more than one award; 69 is not a census of treatment plants. The 11-state span is the distinctive fact: coded geography is concentrated, not a 50-state construction map.

94 awards against 69 recipients is a tight pairing. Extra modifications can lift the 94 tally without moving $1,013,074,064.12 much. The 15.504 hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. An 11-state count is a coding fact, not a claim that recycling projects are impossible elsewhere.

Obligations versus construction outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $1,013,074,064.12 figure for CFDA 15.504 can include multi-year construction commitments that will disburse later. A plant-capacity report, a local matching-fund ledger, and a Treasury outlay series are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 15.504 program page. Do not stretch 94 awards or 11 states to cover every federal dollar that touches water reuse.

What the 15.504 tables omit

The water recycling and desalination construction hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a gallons-per-day operations log, not a brine-disposal file, and not a ratepayer bill. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,013,074,064.12. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 94 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 11 states is a coding field. A district coded to one cell can dominate geography while pipelines cross county lines. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 15.504

A complete citation is $1,013,074,064.12 in obligations for CFDA 15.504, covering 94 awards, 69 recipients, and 11 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is geographic concentration rather than dollars, lead with 11 states, then 94 awards and 69 recipients, then the $1.01B total.

Start with the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is an engineering specification.

A worked reading of the 15.504 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $1,013,074,064.12, 94 awards, 69 recipients, and 11 states under CFDA 15.504. The mean near $10.78 million is a quotient from a small award count, not a typical plant contract. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large capital actions, dollars can jump while 11 states barely move. If modifications proliferate, 94 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $1.01B.

Nothing in the extract splits recycling from desalination, or construction from planning. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 15.504 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 11 states next to the dollars so the narrow geography is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under water recycling and desalination construction?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $1,013,074,064.12 in obligations for CFDA 15.504, Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a gallons-produced score. The same extract lists 94 awards, 69 recipients, and 11 states.

Why does CFDA 15.504 show only 11 states?

The indexed geographic count is 11 against 94 awards and 69 recipients. That is place-of-performance coding in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a claim that recycling or desalination exists only in 11 jurisdictions. The $1,013,074,064.12 obligation total still sits on those 94 award rows. An 11-state span is a concentration fact on this listing.

Does the $1.01B total include construction already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $1,013,074,064.12 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 94-award count is a record tally, not a count of plants completed. Cite CFDA 15.504 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many recipients appear on CFDA 15.504?

The extract stores 69 organizational recipients for this construction listing. That count is not unique households or unique treatment plants. Those rows still sit under the $1,013,074,064.12 obligation total, 94 awards, and 11 states. Recipient count is a file statistic on USAspending.gov assistance awards.