Highway Planning and Construction in Louisiana

The 20.205–Louisiana intersection

CFDA 20.205 is titled HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. Crossed with Louisiana place of performance, obligations sum to $3,818,559,468.96 on 1,864 awards. The national highway-planning hub includes other states. Louisiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this pair is reported here. $3,818,559,468.96 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles built.

1,864 awards is a fragmented Federal-aid pattern: highway planning and construction typically posts as many project-level or formula instruments rather than a single statewide lump. The join does not name DOT districts, list contractors, or count bridges. Packet facts stop at $3,818,559,468.96, 1,864 awards, LA, and 20.205. Correlation is not causation. 1,864 highway instruments carrying $3,818,559,468.96 is a Federal-aid posting pattern, not 1,864 contractors and not 1,864 completed segments named in the facts.

Planning-and-construction versus other transportation catalogs

The catalog title names Highway Planning And Construction, the long-running Federal-aid highway line in this cell. Transit capital, airport, and rail catalogs are different rows and are not mixed into $3,818,559,468.96. Facts available: Louisiana, CFDA 20.205, $3,818,559,468.96, 1,864 awards. Letting schedules, letting dates, and contractor names are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,818,559,468.96 by 1,864 yields about $2.05 million per award—a project-scale mean, not a statewide bond issue. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,864 is not a count of construction sites.

Questions

How much highway planning funding is obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending records $3,818,559,468.96 in CFDA 20.205 obligations with Louisiana place of performance on 1,864 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a transit or airport catalog. Keep Highway Planning And Construction and Louisiana together when citing $3,818,559,468.96.

Does 1,864 awards mean 1,864 highway projects?

1,864 is a USAspending award-record count, not a project, contractor, or mile census. The implied mean is about $2.05 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,818,559,468.96 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.82 billion Louisiana’s full federal transportation spend?

No. $3,818,559,468.96 is only the 20.205 × Louisiana cell. Other transportation catalogs appear on separate Louisiana program pages. Nationwide 20.205 is not limited to Louisiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.205 × LA pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Have these highway dollars already been spent?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live highway–Louisiana table at the 20.205 × LA intersection. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.