Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs — CFDA 20.526

Bus-capital obligations at $4.26 billion

USAspending.gov records $4,257,550,143.72 ($4,257,550,144 rounded) in obligations under CFDA 20.526. Nine hundred thirty-eight awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $4.54 million per award — larger than a typical research grant and consistent with vehicle and facility capital awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical bus-order invoice.

The assistance-listing title groups formula, competitive, and low- or no-emissions bus programs under one CFDA number. CFDA 20.526 is the identifier. Other transit listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $4.26 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined transit-capital total this packet does not contain.

445 recipients and a 54-state span

Four hundred forty-five recipients share 938 awards, or about 2.1 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $4.26 billion evenly would assign about $9.6 million per recipient. That pattern is closer to one or two capital awards per agency than to a dense research portfolio. The packet does not list the 445. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of buses or riders.

Fifty-four states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Capital dollars still concentrate where large transit agencies sit. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a bus count

Among transit listings, 20.526 is a mid-volume file: 938 rows against 445 recipients. Multi-year capital grants and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique vehicle orders. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of buses bought.” Recipients (445) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (938) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report fleet size, ridership, or garage square footage. Citing 938 as vehicles or facilities would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus transit outlays

The $4.26 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against bus and facility awards — are not in the packet. A transit agency can show a large obligation stock while vehicle deliveries follow a multi-year procurement calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 20.526 to size this buses-and-facilities listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a fleet-replacement dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 20.526.

What the 20.526 tables omit

The Buses and Bus Facilities hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a vehicle inventory, not a garage catalog, and not an emissions scorecard beyond the listing title. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $4,257,550,143.72. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 938 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 54 states is a coding field. A statewide recipient coded to one cell can dominate geography while buses operate in many counties. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares.

Where the 20.526 table lives

The Buses and Bus Facilities program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 20.526 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other transit listings. For 20.526 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 20.526’s 938 awards spread $4,257,550,143.72 across 445 recipients and 54 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.1 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 20.526 is indexed at $4,257,550,143.72 in obligations, 938 awards, 445 recipients, and 54 states on USAspending.gov. Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $4.26 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 20.526, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $4,257,550,143.72 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for buses and bus facilities?

USAspending.gov records $4,257,550,143.72 in obligations for CFDA 20.526. SpendingVault indexes 938 awards, 445 recipients, and 54 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a bus count. CFDA 20.526’s $4.26 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 20.526 carry?

The listing shows 938 awards against 445 recipients, or about 2.1 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $4.54 million per award. Award count is not a vehicle or facility count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 20.526 awards?

The extract lists 445 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 20.526. Geographic coding covers 54 states. The packet does not name the 445 or publish fleet inventories. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 20.526’s $4.26 billion on 938 awards, with 445 recipients and 54 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $4.26 billion already spent on buses?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 20.526’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or vehicles delivered. The $4.26 billion on 938 awards is the obligation figure.