Federal Transit Formula Grants in Connecticut

Formula transit dollars tagged to Connecticut

CFDA 20.507 is titled Federal Transit Formula Grants. Connecticut is the place-of-performance state. $1,019,948,743.56 sums obligations on records that carry both keys. Twenty-eight awards against $1.02 billion is neither a two-row megaproject file nor a spray of tiny invoices. The packet does not name transit agencies, urbanized areas, or bus-versus-rail split. The join is a two-key filter, not a ranking of commuter systems.

The Connecticut hub totals every program. The national 20.507 hub totals every state. This tie is the overlap. Nationally Significant Freight And Highway Projects (20.934) is a different DOT catalog number. Mixing 20.507 with 20.934 would misstate $1,019,948,743.56.

Twenty-eight awards against $1,019,948,743.56 is a mid-count transportation file: more rows than Minnesota’s two-award freight-highway cell, fewer than Alabama’s 1,457-award public-housing cell. Mid-count does not mean mid-need. Formula transit can still concentrate dollars in a handful of urbanized-area awards while smaller operators occupy other rows. The packet does not split $1,019,948,743.56 that way. The about-$36.4 million mean is the only average the facts support.

What formula grants are on this CFDA

Federal Transit Formula Grants, as the title states, are formula assistance for transit—not discretionary INFRA highway projects and not railroad retirement insurance. Packet facts are the obligation total, 28 awards, state CT, and CFDA 20.507. No passenger-mile table and no farebox recovery figure appear in the facts.

Place of performance tagged Connecticut can cover a statewide DOT pass-through, a metropolitan transit district, or a smaller operator. The geography key does not publish a New Haven versus Hartford table. Awards coded to New York, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island stay on other ties even when services cross state lines.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Formula Grant funding is obligated in Connecticut?

USAspending records $1,019,948,743.56 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with Connecticut place of performance, covering 28 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not outlays.

Is CFDA 20.507 the same as freight highway project grants?

No. This cell is 20.507 only. Nationally Significant Freight And Highway Projects use CFDA 20.934 and are not included in $1,019,948,743.56.

What is the average transit formula award in Connecticut?

Dividing $1,019,948,743.56 by 28 awards produces about $36.4 million per award. That mean is not a median and not a typical bus-purchase invoice.

Does this include all federal spending in Connecticut?

No. Only CFDA 20.507 is in this cell. Other programs appear on the Connecticut programs index.