Emergency Relief (ER) Program — CFDA 20.271

Highway emergency-relief obligations at $620.0M

USAspending.gov records $619,979,925.63 in obligations under CFDA 20.271. Five hundred seventy-one awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1.09 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical repair invoice and not a cost per washed-out mile.

The assistance-listing title is EMERGENCY RELIEF (ER) PROGRAM. CFDA 20.271 is the identifier. Other DOT highway, FEMA Public Assistance, or FHWA formula listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $620.0M. Combining those codes would invent a combined disaster-highway total this packet does not contain.

34 recipients and 571 award rows

Thirty-four recipients share 571 awards, or about 16.8 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $619,979,925.63 evenly would assign about $18.23 million per recipient. That density is a state-DOT disaster fingerprint: a short list of named organizations carrying many site-level assistance rows. The packet does not list the 34. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal extract, not a census of damaged roads or counties.

Thirty-three states in the geographic count nearly matches the recipient headcount. ER dollars follow disaster geography as coded, not a 50-state equal share. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Many rows per recipient is not a damage census

Among DOT highway listings, 20.271 is a high-row-per-payee file: 571 awards against 34 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of damaged sites” and a worse proxy for miles restored. Recipients (34) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (571) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report bridges, lane-miles, or declaration numbers. Citing 571 as washouts would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus ER outlays

The $620.0M is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Emergency Relief awards — are not in the packet. A disaster file can show a large obligation stock while reconstruction draws follow 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 20.271 to size this Emergency Relief (ER) Program listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a highway formula, MEGA, or FEMA Public Assistance dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 20.271.

What the 20.271 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a damage assessment, not a DOT directory, and not a declaration log. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $619,979,925.63. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 571 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 33 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as a national highway-disaster total. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to state DOTs.

Highway Emergency Relief’s 33-state map and 34-recipient headcount together describe a high-row-per-payee disaster book, not a nationwide STBG formula. A researcher comparing 20.271 with MEGA or FEMA Public Assistance codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The $620.0M stock is the USAspending obligation book for this listing only.

Where the 20.271 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 20.271 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other DOT listings. For 20.271 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 20.271’s 571 awards spread $619,979,925.63 across 34 recipients and 33 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 16.8 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Bridges, lane-miles, and declaration numbers live in other DOT or FEMA series. Those rows are outside $619,979,925.63 unless they share CFDA 20.271. Quote 571 as assistance records, 34 as organizational payees, and 33 as the geographic count.

Questions

How much is obligated for the highway Emergency Relief program?

USAspending.gov records $620.0M in obligations for CFDA 20.271. SpendingVault indexes 571 awards, 34 recipients, and 33 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a mileage count. CFDA 20.271’s $619,979,925.63 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 20.271 carry?

The listing shows 571 awards against 34 recipients, or about 16.8 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1.09 million per award. Award count is not a count of damaged sites or bridges. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 20.271 awards?

The extract lists 34 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 20.271, not a census of damaged roads or counties. Geographic coding covers 33 states. The packet does not name the 34 or publish a damage inventory. Keep dollars, awards, recipients, and geography as separate units on the USAspending extract.

Is $620.0M already paid for emergency highway repairs?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 20.271’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or miles restored. The $619,979,925.63 on 571 awards is the obligation figure. Keep dollars, awards, recipients, and geography as separate units on the USAspending extract.