Delta Regional Authority federal obligations through FY2026

$140.3 million for a smaller regional authority

DRA covers portions of several southern states. USAspending does not draw that county map. It records awards the Authority made. $140,334,198.30 through FY2026 is that obligation stock, built from 311 awards. The comparison to other regional commissions is a separate CGAC exercise; this page stays on awarding agency 517. Arithmetic rank is not a ranking of regional need.

Dividing $140,334,198.30 by 311 yields about $451,235 per award. That mean fits project-scale assistance more than a micro-grant shop. The packet still has no program split: infrastructure, workforce, and other statutory pots are not labeled in these five facts.

State shares are the public question

For a regional authority, geography is the reason to open the table. The 311 awards will not land evenly across partner states. A large share can mean a few sizable project awards tagged to that state’s location fields, not a political preference. Recipient location and place of performance can disagree on the same row.

Distressed-county designations, if DRA uses them, are not a column in this USAspending roll-up. Open award-level records for recipient names. SpendingVault’s state path for agency 517 is the summary, not the project file.

FY2026 stock versus an annual appropriation

The $140,334,198.30 is cumulative through the FY2026 cutoff. Multi-year development awards remain in a running obligation total until they are closed or de-obligated. Comparing this figure to one year’s DRA appropriation mixes a warehouse stock with an annual funding law. Authority staff pay generally never appears among the 311 awards.

Outlays on construction or equipment assistance can lag. This packet has no outlay total. Do not treat $140.3 million as cash already sitting in local accounts.

CGAC 517 is not ARC and not Denali

Delta Regional Authority rows use awarding-agency code 517. Appalachian Regional Commission (309) and Denali Commission (513) are separate books. SpendingVault keeps /agencies/517/ on DRA only. Adding the three regional bodies by hand invents a combined agency USAspending does not publish.

Using the DRA pages

Open the Delta Regional Authority agency page for the live $140,334,198.30 and 311-award filters. Follow the state subdirectory for partner-state attribution. Use the all-agencies index as a directory. Dollar rank against a nationwide regulator measures different missions.

Nothing in this extract scores unemployment or flood recovery. Those are other federal statistical systems. This file is the award ledger through FY2026 for CGAC 517.

Partner states, project awards, and the 311-row geography

DRA’s service area spans portions of several southern states. The 311 awards will not land evenly. A few sizable project instruments can dominate one state’s share on the agency 517 table even if many smaller awards sit elsewhere. That is a USAspending location-field pattern, not a preference ranking. Recipient location and place of performance can disagree on the same row.

Infrastructure and workforce pots are not labeled in the five packet facts. The $140,334,198.30 is the combined awarding-agency stock through FY2026. Splitting it by statutory program here would invent a breakdown the packet does not contain. Assistance Listing codes, when present on award-level records, are the next stop for program identity.

State and local matches that never become federal awards stay off this table. A project that looks large locally can look smaller in USAspending if only the federal slice was tagged to CGAC 517. Refresh the DRA agency page after warehouse updates. Outlays on construction assistance can lag the $140.3 million obligation figure. Use the all-agencies index as a directory, not as a ranking of Delta need.

Workforce and infrastructure projects can share the same 311-row book without being labeled. The $140,334,198.30 does not tell you which share went to broadband, water, or job training. Assistance Listing codes on individual awards, when present, are the honest next step. This roll-up will not guess. FY2026 is the vintage. Use the DRA agency page for live CGAC 517 filters. Partner-state matches that never became federal awards remain outside the $140.3 million.

Congressional-district geography is not in this packet. The 311 awards roll to states on the agency 517 table. A district-level question requires award-level coordinates or recipient addresses when USAspending populated them. The $140,334,198.30 remains a state-and-agency stock through FY2026. Do not interpolate district rank from a state share. Use the DRA agency page for live filters. Outlays on water and site-work assistance can lag obligations.

Questions

How much has the Delta Regional Authority obligated?

USAspending.gov shows $140,334,198.30 in DRA obligations through FY2026 across 311 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 517 is the filter. The total is federal award commitments, not state or local matching funds. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 517 is the source for the current 311-award book.

What is the average DRA award?

Dividing $140,334,198.30 by 311 awards yields about $451,235. The packet has no median and no program-by-program split. Project-scale assistance can sit beside smaller administrative awards. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 517?

517 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Delta Regional Authority. SpendingVault’s /agencies/517/ path uses that code. Appalachian and Denali regional bodies use different CGACs. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Can I see DRA spending by state?

Yes. The state table for agency 517 attributes the 311 awards using USAspending geography fields. It does not mark distressed counties. Place of performance and recipient location can differ. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.