Brownfields cooperative agreements — CFDA 66.818 obligation totals

How to read the $577.7M brownfields obligation sum

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an assistance award. The $577.7M attached to CFDA 66.818 is that kind of sum: a rollup of recorded commitments, not a payment register and not a remaining-balance report. Later deobligations, recoveries, or draws can change what actually leaves the Treasury without this catalog line rewriting itself into an outlay table. SpendingVault reprints the assistance-award total so the brownfields cooperative-agreement listing can be compared with other CFDA rows on the same terms.

The official title bundles multipurpose work, site assessment, revolving loan fund awards, and cleanup cooperative agreements under one assistance-listing number. The packet does not split the $577.7M among those activity types, so this guide does not invent a cleanup-only share or an assessment-only share. Award titles on the program hub are the place to see which cooperative-agreement flavor a given line carries. The extract also does not assign a fiscal year to the headline; treat $577.7M as the obligation total present in the indexed file.

486 awards and 427 recipients on one listing

Behind the dollars sit 486 awards and 427 recipients. Award count is a row count of assistance awards, not a count of brownfield parcels and not a count of acres assessed or cleaned. Recipient count is the number of distinct recipient identifiers in the extract. Because 486 is only modestly larger than 427, many organizations appear on a short list of awards rather than on a long modification chain — but the packet does not publish a one-award-per-recipient statistic, and this page will not invent one.

A single recipient can hold more than one award. An award can be modified without minting a new recipient identifier. The gap between 486 and 427 is a reason to sort the table, not a license to guess how many local governments, tribes, or nonprofits sit in the file. Those organization types are not in the packet. Open the CFDA 66.818 program page to inspect names, amounts, and locations on the actual award lines.

52 states in the brownfields extract

The extract counts 52 states for CFDA 66.818. USAspending state counts on assistance awards can include the District of Columbia or other jurisdictions the source treats as states; this packet does not name which 52 appear. The figure is still a wide geographic footprint for a single cooperative-agreement listing: the $577.7M is not a one-region earmark in the rollup.

Wide coverage does not mean even coverage. The packet has no per-state dollar split, so this guide will not rank states or invent a per-jurisdiction average. Use the award table’s location fields to see where individual cooperative agreements were recorded. Fifty-two states in the extract is a coverage count, not proof that every listed jurisdiction received a similar share of the $577.7M.

Obligations on 66.818 are not cleanup outlays

Obligation and outlay are different USAspending concepts. An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. CFDA 66.818’s $577.7M is the former. Revolving loan fund awards in particular can sit as commitments long before every dollar is disbursed, and assessment cooperative agreements can close with a different payment path than cleanup work. None of that payment timing is in this packet.

Readers comparing brownfields dollars to a budget appendix or a press release should match the metric first. If the other source is talking about appropriations, outlays, or site-level leveraged funds, it is not describing this $577.7M obligation rollup. SpendingVault’s program hub keeps the USAspending assistance definition so the comparison stays on one ledger.

Where to open the award table next

The program page for CFDA 66.818 holds the award-level rows behind the $577.7M, 486-award, 427-recipient, and 52-state totals. The all-programs index places this brownfields listing beside other assistance catalog lines at a similar dollar scale. The agencies index is the separate path for department-level obligation rollups; this packet does not name an awarding agency, so this guide does not attach the $577.7M to a cabinet department on its own.

Questions

How much has CFDA 66.818 obligated on USAspending?

SpendingVault’s extract of USAspending.gov assistance awards shows $577.7M in obligations for BROWNFIELDS MULTIPURPOSE, ASSESSMENT, REVOLVING LOAN FUND, AND CLEANUP COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS (CFDA 66.818). That figure is a sum of recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays and not a remaining cash balance in a revolving fund.

How many brownfields awards and recipients are in the file?

The extract lists 486 awards and 427 recipients. Award count is a row count of assistance awards, not a count of contaminated sites. Recipient count is distinct recipient identifiers. The packet does not say how many of those recipients are cities, tribes, or nonprofits.

Does the $577.7M cover all 50 states?

The extract reports 52 states for CFDA 66.818. USAspending state counts can include the District of Columbia or other jurisdictions treated as states. The packet does not name them or split the $577.7M by state, so this page does not publish a per-state ranking.

Is a brownfields obligation the same as money already spent?

No. USAspending obligations are commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments. The $577.7M on CFDA 66.818 is an obligation total. Cleanup, assessment, and revolving loan fund awards can disburse on different schedules; those payment amounts are not in this packet.