Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council federal obligations

120 awards under a $902 million Council book

The precise total is $902,478,603.18. Divided by 120 awards, the implied mean is about $7.52 million per award. Restoration grants and related vehicles can occupy a small number of high-value rows. This packet does not split the 120 records by Gulf state or project type, so those shares are not stated here.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. Multi-year restoration vehicles can remain open, so $902,478,603.18 is not a single construction season’s cash. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 120 awards at a mean near $7.52 million describe specialized restoration-finance grants, not a cabinet-scale portfolio. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as multi-year restoration vehicles remain open inside FY 2026.

CGAC 471 as the awarding-agency identifier

SpendingVault keys the Council to /agencies/471/. CGAC 471 is the USAspending awarding-agency code in this extract. The $902,478,603.18 total and 120 award count belong to that identifier. The award count is not a count of miles of shoreline, oyster reefs, or parish governments.

Award files versus restoration-plan documents

Comprehensive Plan updates and funded-priorities lists are published by the Council separately. This hub cites $902,478,603.18 in USAspending obligations through FY 2026 on 120 awards. Ecological outcome metrics are not in the packet. Outlays are omitted.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, that reading is wrong. Acres restored, shoreline miles, settlement-fund balances, or Gulf-state project-type splits belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Multi-year restoration vehicles remain open inside FY 2026.

State geography on a Gulf-focused file

Place-of-performance should concentrate in Gulf states if coding follows project location, but headquarters or contractor coding can still fill other cells. The geography view is a coding table for the 120 awards that sum to $902,478,603.18 through FY 2026, not a habitat-quality index. States with no row simply lack a place-of-performance record in this extract.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, project-location coding should concentrate in Gulf states, but contractor coding can fill other cells; empty cells mean no row in this extract. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Use CGAC 471 for the award rollup; ecological metrics are not in this packet.

GCERC on the all-agencies list

Compare $902,478,603.18 and 120 awards only with other obligation totals from this extract. The hub does not advise restoration contractors.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 120 awards at a mean near $7.52 million describe specialized restoration-finance grants, not a cabinet-scale portfolio. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Use CGAC 471 for the award rollup; ecological metrics are not in this packet.

GCERC’s 120-row restoration file

The packet facts are $902,478,603.18, 120 awards, CGAC 471, and FY 2026. Comprehensive Plan documents are other Council products. Ecological outcome metrics are not in the packet and are not cited. A later USAspending extract can revise both the dollar total and the 120 count as new actions and modifications post against CGAC 471. Until that refresh, the documented book is 902478603.18 in obligations. That figure is not a performance score, not an enacted one-year appropriation, and not a recommendation to apply for funds. It is the award-file rollup this packet carries through FY 2026.

Project-type splits are omitted. Rank the Council only against other obligation totals from this extract. The state table is place-of-performance coding on 120 records; non-Gulf states may have no row. CGAC 471 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/471/. The award population is 120 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 471 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/471/. The award population is 120 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council obligated through FY 2026?

Council records (CGAC 471) sum to $902,478,603.18 across 120 awards in this extract. That figure is an obligation total from USAspending.gov through fiscal year 2026, not an acres-restored metric and not a settlement-fund balance.

What is CGAC 471?

CGAC 471 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council in this extract. SpendingVault’s hub is /agencies/471/. The $902,478,603.18 obligation total and 120 award count belong to that code through FY 2026.

Why are there only 120 awards?

The 120 count is the number of award records tagged to CGAC 471. Restoration-scale grants can each carry a large share of the $902,478,603.18 book. A thin row count is a size-mix fact, not a finding about unfinished projects.

Where can I see Council spending by state?

The state table from the CGAC 471 agency page uses place-of-performance fields on the same obligation extract. Geography rows still sit under $902,478,603.18 and 120 awards through FY 2026; non-Gulf states may have no row.