Flood Mitigation Assistance in Louisiana

Louisiana paired with CFDA 97.029

CFDA 97.029 is titled FLOOD MITIGATION ASSISTANCE. Crossed with Louisiana place of performance, obligations sum to $462,551,637.22 on 9 awards. The national 97.029 hub includes other states. Louisiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $462,551,637.22 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of mitigated properties in New Orleans.

Nine awards is a mitigation-grant pattern: FMA often posts as a handful of large assistance instruments rather than one record per property. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $462,551,637.22, 9 awards, LA, and 97.029. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Flood Mitigation Assistance and Louisiana together when reading $462,551,637.22.

97.029 is not NFIP claims in Louisiana

NFIP claims and other FEMA disaster catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $462,551,637.22 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Louisiana, CFDA 97.029, $462,551,637.22, 9 awards. Property addresses, elevation projects, and parish names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Flood Mitigation Assistance, not a ranking of parishes. Dividing $462,551,637.22 by 9 yields about $51.39 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 9 is not a property or parish census.

Questions

How much Flood Mitigation Assistance is obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending records $462,551,637.22 in CFDA 97.029 obligations with Louisiana place of performance on 9 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Flood Mitigation Assistance and Louisiana together when citing $462,551,637.22.

Does 9 awards mean 9 Louisiana properties?

9 is a USAspending award-record count, not a property or parish census. The implied mean is about $51.39 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 9 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Louisiana’s total FEMA spending?

No. This join is CFDA 97.029 only. NFIP and other FEMA catalogs appear on separate Louisiana program pages. Nationwide 97.029 is not limited to Louisiana. Obligations of $462,551,637.22 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Flood Mitigation Assistance–Louisiana table.

Do these obligations equal construction finished?

No. $462,551,637.22 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 97.029 × LA pair.