Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program — CFDA 20.527

Transit emergency-relief obligations at $1.48 billion

USAspending.gov records about $1.5 billion — $1,481,323,512 in obligations under CFDA 20.527. Fifty-four awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $27.43 million per award — large for a typical transit grant and consistent with disaster-recovery capital rather than a small operating subsidy. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical bus-replacement bid or a per-storm cost.

The assistance-listing title is PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAM. CFDA 20.527 is the identifier. Other FTA formula or FEMA transit listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.48 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined transit-disaster total this packet does not contain.

27 recipients across 8 states

Twenty-seven recipients share 54 awards, or about 2.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1.48 billion evenly would assign about $54.86 million per recipient. That pattern is a small transit-agency roster carrying large recovery awards. The packet does not list the 27. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of vehicles or stations.

Eight states in the geographic count is a visibly incomplete map. Emergency-relief dollars follow disaster geography, not population. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Fifty-four awards on 27 recipients in 8 states is disaster-concentrated transit recovery, not a 50-state formula. About $27.43 million per award is capital-rebuild scale. The $1,481,323,512 obligation stock is not a FEMA declaration log, not a fleet-loss inventory, and not FTA Urbanized Area Formula. FHWA emergency relief is a different listing. Quote 54 as assistance rows, 27 as named organizations, and 8 as the coded state count. Eight states is the geographic bound of this extract, not a finding that other states never run transit.

Award count is not a storm-event count

Among DOT assistance listings, 20.527 is a thin file: 54 rows against 27 recipients. Multi-year recovery rows and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique agencies. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of disasters.” Recipients (27) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (54) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report vehicle losses, ridership, or FEMA declarations. Citing 54 as storms would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.48 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against transit emergency-relief awards — are not in the packet. A transit agency can show a large obligation stock while a construction draw follows a later rebuild season. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 20.527 to size this Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as FTA Urbanized Area Formula, FHWA ER, or FEMA PA dashboard. Those series live on other codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 20.527.

What the 20.527 tables omit

The transit emergency-relief hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a disaster declaration log, not a fleet inventory, and not a ridership file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,481,323,512. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 54 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 8 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 repairs.

Where the 20.527 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 20.527 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other DOT listings. For 20.527 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 20.527’s 54 awards spread $1,481,323,512 across 27 recipients and 8 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $27.43 million per award is the size story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for public transportation emergency relief?

USAspending.gov records $1,481,323,512 in obligations for CFDA 20.527. SpendingVault indexes 54 awards, 27 recipients, and 8 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a vehicle count. CFDA 20.527’s $1.48 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 20.527 carry?

The listing shows 54 awards against 27 recipients, or about 2.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $27.43 million per award. Award count is not a storm or bus count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 20.527 awards?

The extract lists 27 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 20.527. Geographic coding covers 8 states. The packet does not name the 27 or publish fleet losses. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Is $1.48 billion already paid for transit disaster recovery?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 20.527’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or vehicles replaced. The $1.48 billion on 54 awards is the obligation figure.