How much INFRA freight and highway funding is obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov shows $163,503,600 in obligations for CFDA 20.934 with Rhode Island as place of performance, across 2 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Rhode Island’s full transportation budget. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 20.934.

Do 2 awards mean 2 Rhode Island highway projects?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. INFRA often posts as few large rows. It is not a project or mile census. See the Rhode Island 20.934 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include Rhode Island transit formula grants?

No. Transit formula grants are CFDA 20.507 on a separate Rhode Island join. This page is CFDA 20.934 only. Those transit dollars are not inside $163,503,600 unless the award also carries 20.934. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is $164 million already spent building Rhode Island freight projects?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $163,503,600 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Construction completions and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects in Rhode Island

Name: Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects federal funding in Rhode Island
Creator: SpendingVault
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CFDA 20.934 — federal program obligations to Rhode Island

Total obligated

$163.5M

Awards

Nationally Significant Freight And Highway Projects (CFDA 20.934) shows $163,503,600 in USAspending.gov obligations with Rhode Island as place of performance. Two awards carry that total. The join is a DOT nationally significant freight and highway (INFRA) listing crossed with a state location field, not Rhode Island’s entire highway budget and not a census of miles. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Key figures

CFDA 20.934 in Rhode Island shows $163,503,600 in USAspending obligations on 2 awards.
Two awards are discretionary rows, not a mile census.
The join is CFDA 20.934 plus Rhode Island place of performance, not transit formula 20.507.
The total is commitments, not lane-miles already opened.

Rhode Island x 20.934 is an INFRA join, not a mile census

This page pairs CFDA 20.934, NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT FREIGHT AND HIGHWAY PROJECTS, with Rhode Island place of performance. The join is a DOT nationally significant freight and highway (INFRA) listing crossed with a state location field, not Rhode Island’s entire highway budget and not a census of miles. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $163,503,600 on 2 awards. The extract does not list corridors, miles, or project names. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state has more need, and not a claim that 2 awards equal 2 corridors or 2 construction contracts.

Other DOT listings — formula highways, transit 20.507, or AIP 20.106 — sit outside this total unless they also carry 20.934. Mixing those listings into $163,503,600 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and port tonnage is not causation. Freight tonnage figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Rhode Island locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $163,503,600 in the state treasury. Providence-versus-port folklore is not a corridor split in this packet. Two awards beside a nine-figure total is a short list of large rows, not proof that only two contractors exist.

2 awards behind $163.5 million

Mean obligation is about $81,751,800 if $163,503,600 were divided evenly across 2 lines. That ratio is not a published project cost and not a cost per mile. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of projects, miles, or contractors.

Two lines are a compact discretionary file. Large INFRA awards often post as few rows. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Nationally Significant Freight And Highway Projects in Rhode Island for the stored table. Do not convert 2 into a map of Rhode Island freight corridors. The $163,503,600 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a mile census.

Full analysis: Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects in Rhode Island →

Questions

How much INFRA freight and highway funding is obligated in Rhode Island?: USAspending.gov shows $163,503,600 in obligations for CFDA 20.934 with Rhode Island as place of performance, across 2 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Rhode Island’s full transportation budget. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 20.934.
Do 2 awards mean 2 Rhode Island highway projects?: No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. INFRA often posts as few large rows. It is not a project or mile census. See the Rhode Island 20.934 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.
Does this include Rhode Island transit formula grants?: No. Transit formula grants are CFDA 20.507 on a separate Rhode Island join. This page is CFDA 20.934 only. Those transit dollars are not inside $163,503,600 unless the award also carries 20.934. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Is $164 million already spent building Rhode Island freight projects?: Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $163,503,600 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Construction completions 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

Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects in Rhode Island

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