Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) — CFDA 20.272

1,487 HSIP award rows under $978.3M

Assistance listing 20.272 is titled HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $978,284,344.78. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $978.3M as guardrail already installed mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

1,487 awards sit under that dollar book—a high record count next to a still-large sum. Dividing $978,284,344.78 by 1,487 produces a mean near $658,000 per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical safety project let and not a cost per crash avoided. HSIP dollars often sit on many project-level assistance actions, which is why 1,487 records can coexist with $978.3M.

50 recipients exactly matching 50 states

CFDA 20.272 lists 50 recipients and 50 states against 1,487 awards. Recipient count is not unique construction workers. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. The 50/50 pairing is a formula-like file: one primary organizational recipient per coded state carrying many project rows. 50 is not a census of contractors on every job. The 50-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every work zone.

1,487 awards against 50 recipients averages about 30 award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 1,487 tally without moving $978,284,344.78 much, while a few large commitments can do the reverse. The HSIP hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus highway-safety outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $978,284,344.78 figure for CFDA 20.272 can include multi-year construction commitments that will disburse later. An FARS crash table, a state SHSP, 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 20.272 program page. Do not stretch 1,487 awards or 50 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches roadway safety.

What the 20.272 tables omit

The HSIP hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a crash-location file, not a fatality-rate table, and not a contractor performance score. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $978,284,344.78. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 1,487 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 50 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while projects sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 20.272

A complete citation is $978,284,344.78 in obligations for CFDA 20.272, covering 1,487 awards, 50 recipients, and 50 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is record volume rather than dollars, lead with 1,487 awards, then the 50/50 recipient-state pairing, then the $978.3M total.

Start with the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a bid instruction.

A worked reading of the 20.272 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $978,284,344.78, 1,487 awards, 50 recipients, and 50 states under CFDA 20.272. The mean near $658,000 is a quotient from a high award count, not a typical safety letting. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many small project actions, 1,487 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few giant commitments post, $978.3M can jump without a matching jump in 50 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits intersection work from roadway departure, or infrastructure from behavioral safety. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 20.272 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 1,487 awards next to the dollars so volume is not inferred from the sum.

Questions

How much is obligated under HSIP on USAspending?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $978,284,344.78 in obligations for CFDA 20.272, Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a crash-reduction score. The same extract lists 1,487 awards, 50 recipients, and 50 states.

Why does CFDA 20.272 have 1,487 awards but only 50 recipients?

The indexed award count is 1,487 against 50 recipients and 50 states. HSIP dollars often sit on many project-level assistance actions under a small set of statewide organizational recipients. The 1,487 figure is a file statistic, not a count of work zones. The $978,284,344.78 obligation total still sits on those rows.

Does the $978.3M total include safety work already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $978,284,344.78 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 1,487-award count is a record tally, not a count of completed projects. Cite CFDA 20.272 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 20.272?

The extract codes 50 states for HSIP, matching 50 recipients. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every safety project. Those rows still sit under the $978,284,344.78 obligation total and the 1,487-award count.