State of Good Repair Grants Program — CFDA 20.525

What $8.74 billion on 203 awards means

Assistance listing 20.525 is titled STATE OF GOOD REPAIR GRANTS PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $8,739,280,376. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a maintenance invoice already paid.

203 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $8,739,280,376 by 203 produces a mean near $43.1 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical bus overhaul cost and not a per-mile repair rate. Capital-repair dollars often sit on a modest number of large transit actions, which is why 203 records can carry $8,739,280,376.

76 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 35 states are coded for place of performance. Neither count converts the obligation total into assets restored.

76 recipients in 35 states

CFDA 20.525 lists 76 recipients and 35 states against 203 awards. Recipient count is not unique riders. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. A transit agency can appear on multiple awards; 76 is not a headcount of metropolitan areas.

Thirty-five states is a coded-jurisdiction span, narrower than a 50-state formula program. Because 203 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large repair actions can move $8,739,280,376 without a matching jump in the 76-recipient count.

Obligations versus repair outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $8,739,280,376 figure for CFDA 20.525 can include commitments that will disburse as projects advance. A separate transit asset inventory or a Treasury outlay table is a different publication. 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 20.525 program page. Do not stretch 203 awards or 76 recipients to cover every transit-repair dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 20.525 tables omit

The State of Good Repair Grants Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a vehicle roster, not a rail-condition scorecard, and not a project schedule. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $8,739,280,376.

Place-of-performance on 35 states is a coding field. A regional grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while assets sit in several localities. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 20.525

A complete citation is $8,739,280,376 in obligations for CFDA 20.525, covering 203 awards, 76 recipients, and 35 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is geographic reach rather than dollars, lead with 35 states, then the dollar total.

Start with the State of Good Repair Grants Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 20.525 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 20.525: $8,739,280,376 in obligations, 203 awards, 76 recipients, and 35 states. The mean near $43.05 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 76 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 203 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $8,739,280,376.

Nothing in the extract splits STATE OF GOOD REPAIR GRANTS PROGRAM into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 20.525 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 203 awards and 76 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $8,739,280,376. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $8,739,280,376 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 20.525, covering 203 awards, 76 recipients, and 35 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 203 awards into vehicles rebuilt, or 76 recipients into a transit-agency census. The 35-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the STATE OF GOOD REPAIR GRANTS PROGRAM hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $8,739,280,376, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 203 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under State of Good Repair grants?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $8,739,280,376 in obligations for CFDA 20.525. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of vehicles. The same extract lists 203 awards, 76 recipients, and 35 states.

Why does CFDA 20.525 have only 203 awards?

The indexed award count is 203. Repair dollars often sit on a relatively small number of large transit actions, which is why $8,739,280,376 can coexist with a modest record count. The 203 figure is a file statistic, not a count of assets. 76 organizational recipients are stored on those rows.

Does the good-repair total include money already spent on maintenance?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $8,739,280,376 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 20.525 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

How many states appear on CFDA 20.525?

The extract codes 35 states for the State of Good Repair Grants Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every transit asset. Those rows still sit under the $8,739,280,376 obligation total and the 76-recipient count.