Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program (OFR) — CFDA 98.003

Freight-reimbursement dollars on 98 awards

Assistance listing 98.003 is titled OCEAN FREIGHT REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM (OFR) in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $924,699,595. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $924.7M as ocean bills already settled mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

98 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $924,699,595 by 98 produces a mean near $9.44 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical shipping invoice and not a cost per TEU. Ocean-freight reimbursement dollars often sit on a modest number of large assistance actions, which is why 98 records can carry $924.7M.

Four coded states against 54 recipients

CFDA 98.003 lists 54 recipients and 4 states against 98 awards. Recipient count is not unique cargo lots. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A private voluntary organization can appear on more than one award; 54 is not a census of vessels. The 4-state span is the distinctive fact: coded place-of-performance is extremely concentrated, not a map of every port of loading or destination.

98 awards against 54 recipients averages under two award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 98 tally without moving $924,699,595 much. The OFR hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. A 4-state count is a coding fact, not a claim that freight moved only inside those jurisdictions.

Obligations versus freight outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $924,699,595 figure for CFDA 98.003 can include commitments that will disburse later. A bill-of-lading file, a commodity-tonnage report, 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 98.003 program page. Do not stretch 98 awards or 4 states to cover every federal dollar that touches ocean freight.

What the 98.003 tables omit

The Ocean Freight Reimbursement hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a sailing schedule, not a commodity list, and not a destination-country roster. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $924,699,595. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 98 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 4 states is a coding field. A grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while cargo originates or lands elsewhere. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 98.003

A complete citation is $924,699,595 in obligations for CFDA 98.003, covering 98 awards, 54 recipients, and 4 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is geographic concentration, lead with 4 states, then 98 awards and 54 recipients, then the $924.7M total.

Start with the Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program (OFR) page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a shipping instruction.

A worked reading of the 98.003 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $924,699,595, 98 awards, 54 recipients, and 4 states under CFDA 98.003. The mean near $9.44 million is a quotient from a modest award count, not a typical freight bill. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large reimbursement actions, dollars can jump while 4 states barely move. If modifications proliferate, 98 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $924.7M.

Nothing in the extract splits commodities, carriers, or destinations. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 98.003 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 4 states next to the dollars so the extreme geographic concentration is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under Ocean Freight Reimbursement?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $924,699,595 in obligations for CFDA 98.003, Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program (OFR). That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of containers. The same extract lists 98 awards, 54 recipients, and 4 states.

Why does CFDA 98.003 show only 4 states?

The indexed geographic count is 4 against 98 awards and 54 recipients. That is place-of-performance coding in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a claim that cargo moved only inside four jurisdictions. The $924,699,595 obligation total still sits on those 98 award rows. A 4-state span is a concentration fact on this listing.

Does the $924.7M total include freight bills already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $924,699,595 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 98-award count is a record tally, not a count of shipments. Cite CFDA 98.003 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many recipients appear on CFDA 98.003?

The extract stores 54 organizational recipients for this OFR listing. That count is not unique cargo lots or unique vessels. Those rows still sit under the $924,699,595 obligation total, 98 awards, and 4 states. Recipient count is a file statistic on USAspending.gov assistance awards.