How much ferry-grant funding is obligated in Alaska under CFDA 20.532?

USAspending.gov shows $334,357,146 in obligations for CFDA 20.532 with Alaska as place of performance, across 4 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alaska’s full transportation budget. Other DOT listings are outside this join unless they also carry 20.532.

Do 4 awards mean 4 Alaska ferries?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a vessel or route census. The packet does not name operators. See the Alaska 20.532 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include Alaska’s formula transit grants?

No. This page is CFDA 20.532, the bundled passenger, low-emitting, and rural-community ferry programs. Formula transit and other FTA codes use different listings. Those dollars are not inside $334,357,146 unless the award also carries 20.532. The extract has no ridership table.

Is $334 million already spent on Alaska ferries?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $334,357,146 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Construction draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

Passenger Ferry Grant Program, Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program, and Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program in Alaska

Name: Passenger Ferry Grant Program, Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program, and Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program federal funding in Alaska
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CFDA 20.532 — federal program obligations to Alaska

Total obligated

$334.4M

Awards

Passenger Ferry Grant Program, Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program, and Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program (CFDA 20.532) shows $334,357,146 in USAspending.gov obligations with Alaska as place of performance. Four awards carry that total — a short list of large assistance rows, not four ferries counted as hulls. The join is an FTA bundled ferry listing crossed with a state location field, not Alaska’s entire transportation budget. USF rural health care on this slice is an FCC overlay, not a ferry subset. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Key figures

CFDA 20.532 in Alaska shows $334,357,146 in USAspending obligations on 4 awards.
Four awards are capital-style rows, not a vessel or route census.
The join is bundled ferry grants plus Alaska place of performance, not USF rural health care.
The total is commitments, not vessels already delivered.

Alaska x 20.532 is a ferry-grant join, not a vessel census

This page pairs CFDA 20.532 — the bundled Passenger Ferry Grant, Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot, and Ferry Service for Rural Communities programs — with Alaska place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $334,357,146 on 4 awards. The extract does not list vessels, routes, or passenger counts. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state needs more marine service, and not a claim that 4 awards equal 4 boats.

Other DOT listings — formula transit, capital investment grants on 20.500, or highway programs — sit outside $334,357,146 unless they also carry 20.532. Alaska’s Universal Service Fund rural health-care join on 32.005 is an FCC overlay, not an FTA subset. Mixing ferry grants with USF would invent a combined state figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and island population is not causation. Population figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alaska locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $334,357,146 in the state treasury.

4 awards behind $334.4 million

Mean obligation is about $83,589,286.50 if $334,357,146 were divided evenly across 4 lines. That ratio is not a published vessel cost and not a cost per route. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a count of ferries, terminals, or communities.

Four lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent operator or route names. Open Passenger Ferry Grant Program, Electric Or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program, And Ferry Service For Rural Communities Program in Alaska for the stored table. Do not convert 4 into a map of Alaska marine highways. The $334,357,146 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not hulls already delivered. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a vessel census.

Full analysis: Passenger and rural ferry grant funding in Alaska →

Questions

How much ferry-grant funding is obligated in Alaska under CFDA 20.532?: USAspending.gov shows $334,357,146 in obligations for CFDA 20.532 with Alaska as place of performance, across 4 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alaska’s full transportation budget. Other DOT listings are outside this join unless they also carry 20.532.
Do 4 awards mean 4 Alaska ferries?: No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a vessel or route census. The packet does not name operators. See the Alaska 20.532 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.
Does this include Alaska’s formula transit grants?: No. This page is CFDA 20.532, the bundled passenger, low-emitting, and rural-community ferry programs. Formula transit and other FTA codes use different listings. Those dollars are not inside $334,357,146 unless the award also carries 20.532. The extract has no ridership table.
Is $334 million already spent on Alaska ferries?: Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $334,357,146 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Construction draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

Passenger and rural ferry grant funding in Alaska

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