United States Chemical Safety Board federal obligations

Accident investigation on a $4.1 million award book

CSB investigation reports are the agency’s public product. USAspending awards are not. $4,113,597.70 through FY2026 is what the Board obligated on federal awards—technical support, IT, facilities, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 510. A year with more major chemical accidents does not automatically raise this total. A lab or data contract can raise it in a quiet accident year.

Thirty-four awards against $4.1 million implies about $120,988 per award. That modest mean on a thin count fits a micro-investigative body. The packet has no median. The National Transportation Safety Board is a larger modal investigator under a different CGAC and is not this $4.1 million.

EPA and OSHA incident files are different ledgers

Risk Management Plan data, OSHA inspection files, and EPA enforcement cases sit under other awarding-agency codes. Mixing them with $4,113,597.70 would treat CSB as if it ran those programs. This page stays on CGAC 510.

Investigator salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $4.1 million understates the Board’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

FY2026 cutoff

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $4,113,597.70 is cumulative through that horizon, not a single-year appropriation. Multi-year technical-support awards remain in the running total until closed. With only 34 awards, one modification is visible in the agency total.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 510. Investigation dockets live on CSB’s own site, not in these 34 rows.

CGAC 510

United States Chemical Safety Board rows use awarding-agency code 510. SpendingVault’s /agencies/510/ path is keyed to it. EPA, OSHA, and NTSB use other codes. Code 510 is an identifier, not an accident investigation number.

State tables versus accident geography

The state table for agency 510 attributes 34 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography, not a heat map of chemical accidents. A large state share can be a headquarters contractor, not a claim that that state had more explosions.

Open the CSB agency page for the live $4,113,597.70 and 34-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 510. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of chemical risk.

Investigation dockets versus 34 CSB awards

CSB investigation reports are the Board’s public product. They are not the 34 USAspending awards. A year with a major chemical accident can leave $4,113,597.70 unchanged if extra work is done by staff. A lab or data contract can move it in a quiet accident year. Keep the investigation calendar and the award ledger separate.

EPA risk-management files and OSHA inspection files sit under other awarding-agency codes. Mixing them with $4.1 million would treat CSB as if it ran those programs. This page stays on CGAC 510. The state table for agency 510 is vendor geography, not a heat map of chemical accidents.

Investigator salaries generally never appear among the 34 rows, so the table understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the CSB agency page for live tables. With only 34 awards, one modification is visible in the agency total. Outlays are unpublished. Keep this CGAC unmerged with environmental or workplace-safety awarding agencies.

Deployment to a chemical accident is not automatically a USAspending award. Staff investigators can travel without adding a row to the 34. A lab contract can add a row with no deployment. The $4,113,597.70 is the contracted slice through FY2026 for CGAC 510. Keep investigation dockets and the award ledger separate. Use the CSB agency page for live tables. Accident-site maps remain investigation files, not this state award table. Outlays are unpublished. One modification is visible in a 34-row book.

Interim investigation updates are CSB public products. They are not the 34 awards. A year of many interim notes can leave $4,113,597.70 unchanged. A modeling contract can move it with no change in the docket. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the CSB agency page for live CGAC 510 tables. EPA and OSHA incident files remain other awarding agencies. Accident-site maps are not this state award table. Outlays are unpublished.

Questions

How much has the Chemical Safety Board obligated?

The United States Chemical Safety Board shows $4,113,597.70 in obligations through FY2026 across 34 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 510 is the filter. The total is not a count of chemical-accident investigations. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 510 is the source for the current 34-award book.

What is the average CSB award?

Dividing $4,113,597.70 by 34 awards yields about $120,988. The packet has no median. Technical support and administrative instruments share the same mean. 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 510?

510 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Chemical Safety Board. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/510/. EPA, OSHA, and NTSB use different codes. 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.

Does the state table show where accidents happened?

No. The state table for agency 510 shows USAspending geography on the 34 awards. Accident locations live in CSB investigation files. Outlays on the $4,113,597.70 are unpublished in the packet. 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.