Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning — CFDA 15.916

Outdoor-recreation obligations at $1.81 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,805,100,946.52 in obligations under CFDA 15.916. Two thousand eight hundred twenty-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $638,000 per award — consistent with project-level grants stacked at the same state agencies rather than one giant land-purchase row. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical park budget or a per-acre price.

The assistance-listing title is OUTDOOR RECREATION ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING. CFDA 15.916 is the identifier. Other Interior parks or LWCF-adjacent listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.81 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined recreation-funding total this packet does not contain.

60 recipients across 56 states

Sixty recipients share 2,827 awards, or about 47.1 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1.81 billion evenly would assign about $30.09 million per recipient. That density is the story: a small state-agency roster carrying thousands of project rows. The packet does not list the 60. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of parks or trailheads.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count is a near-complete map plus territories. Outdoor-recreation dollars in this extract follow that coded geography. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Forty-seven award records per recipient is the outdoor-recreation density story: 2,827 project rows on 60 state agencies. That is pass-through architecture, not 2,827 unique parks. Fifty-six states in the geographic count is a near-complete map plus territories. The $1,805,100,946.52 obligation stock does not report acres acquired, trail miles, or visitor days. National Park Service construction and Forest Service recreation listings are separate CFDA codes. Quote 2,827 as assistance rows and 60 as named organizations.

Award count is not a park count

Among Interior assistance listings, 15.916 is a high-volume file: 2,827 rows against 60 recipients. Annual project rows and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique agencies. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of parks acquired.” Recipients (60) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (2,827) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report acres, trail miles, or visitor days. Citing 2,827 as parks would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.81 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against outdoor-recreation awards — are not in the packet. A state recreation agency can show a large obligation stock while a local subaward draw follows a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 15.916 to size this Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a National Park Service construction, urban-parks, or Forest Service recreation dashboard. Those series live on other codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 15.916.

What the 15.916 tables omit

The outdoor-recreation hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a park inventory, not an acreage ledger, and not a visitor survey. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,805,100,946.52. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 2,827 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 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 land or playgrounds.

Where the 15.916 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 15.916 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other Interior listings. For 15.916 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 15.916’s 2,827 awards spread $1,805,100,946.52 across 60 recipients and 56 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 47.1 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for outdoor recreation acquisition and development?

USAspending.gov records $1,805,100,946.52 in obligations for CFDA 15.916. SpendingVault indexes 2,827 awards, 60 recipients, and 56 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a park count. CFDA 15.916’s $1.81 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 15.916 carry?

The listing shows 2,827 awards against 60 recipients, or about 47.1 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $638,000 per award. Award count is not a park or acre count. Recipient dollars are on the program page. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

How many organizations receive 15.916 awards?

The extract lists 60 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 15.916. Geographic coding covers 56 states. The packet does not name the 60 or publish acreage. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Is $1.81 billion already paid for parks and trails?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 15.916’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or acres acquired. The $1.81 billion on 2,827 awards is the obligation figure.