How much ACEP funding is obligated in Montana?

USAspending.gov shows $387,151,326.06 in obligations for CFDA 10.931 with Montana as place of performance, across 47 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Montana’s full conservation budget. Other USDA listings are outside this join unless they also carry 10.931.

Do 47 awards mean 47 Montana easements?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not an easement or acre census. The packet does not name landowners. See the Montana 10.931 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include CRP in Montana?

No. This page is CFDA 10.931, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. CRP and other conservation titles use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $387,151,326.06 unless the award also carries 10.931. The extract has no acreage table.

Is $387 million already spent on Montana easements?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $387,151,326.06 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Closing draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

Agricultural Conservation Easement Program in Montana

Name: Agricultural Conservation Easement Program federal funding in Montana
Creator: SpendingVault
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CFDA 10.931 — federal program obligations to Montana

Total obligated

$392.3M

Awards

The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (CFDA 10.931) shows $387,151,326.06 in USAspending.gov obligations with Montana as place of performance. Forty-seven awards carry that total. The join is a USDA NRCS easement listing crossed with a state location field, not Montana’s entire conservation or agriculture budget and not a census of acres. Mississippi’s ACEP overlay on this slice is a separate pair. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Key figures

CFDA 10.931 in Montana shows $387,151,326.06 in USAspending obligations on 47 awards.
Forty-seven awards are project-style rows, not an easement or acre census.
The join is ACEP plus Montana place of performance, not CRP or Interior water systems.
The total is commitments, not easement deeds already recorded.

Montana x 10.931 is an ACEP join, not an acreage census

This page pairs CFDA 10.931, AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROGRAM, with Montana place of performance. ACEP, in program language, helps protect agricultural lands and wetlands through easements. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $387,151,326.06 on 47 awards. The extract does not list acres, easement types, or landowners. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state conserves more land, and not a claim that 47 awards equal 47 ranches.

Other USDA listings — CRP on 10.069, EQIP, or different easement titles — sit outside $387,151,326.06 unless they also carry 10.931. Montana’s Impact Aid and BIA facilities joins on this slice are Education and Interior overlays, not NRCS subsets. Mixing ACEP with CRP would invent a combined conservation figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and grassland loss is not causation. Land-cover figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Montana locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $387,151,326.06 in the state treasury.

47 awards behind $387.2 million

Mean obligation is about $8,237,262.26 if $387,151,326.06 were divided evenly across 47 lines. That ratio is not a published easement price and not a cost per acre. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of easements, counties, or acres.

Forty-seven lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent landowner names. Open Agricultural Conservation Easement Program in Montana for the stored table. Do not convert 47 into a map of Montana ranches. The $387,151,326.06 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not easements already recorded. Inspect named lines rather than inferring enrolled acreage.

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Questions

How much ACEP funding is obligated in Montana?: USAspending.gov shows $387,151,326.06 in obligations for CFDA 10.931 with Montana as place of performance, across 47 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Montana’s full conservation budget. Other USDA listings are outside this join unless they also carry 10.931.
Do 47 awards mean 47 Montana easements?: No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not an easement or acre census. The packet does not name landowners. See the Montana 10.931 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.
Does this include CRP in Montana?: No. This page is CFDA 10.931, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. CRP and other conservation titles use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $387,151,326.06 unless the award also carries 10.931. The extract has no acreage table.
Is $387 million already spent on Montana easements?: Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $387,151,326.06 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Closing 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

Agricultural Conservation Easement Program funding in Montana

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