How much has Federal Communications Commission obligated in South Dakota?

USAspending.gov records $657,538,804.26 across 1,527 awards with awarding agency 027 and a South Dakota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Dakota’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 1,527 FCC awards mean 1,527 South Dakota licenses?

No. $657,538,804.26 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 027 × SD. It does not measure license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this FCC file have 1527 awards?

1527 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $657,538,804.26 by 1527 yields about $430,608.25 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Federal Communications Commission in South Dakota?

Federal Communications Commission in South Dakota is the overlay for both keys. South Dakota federal spending is the all-agency South Dakota hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.

Federal Communications Commission in South Dakota

Federal obligations from Federal Communications Commission to South Dakota

Total obligated

$669.6M

Awards

Federal Communications Commission shows $657,538,804.26 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to South Dakota, across 1,527 awards. Awarding-agency 027 and South Dakota (SD) are the pair. 1,527 awards against $657,538,804.26 is a 1,527-award communications file, many rows against a nine-figure Plains sum. The implied mean is about $430,608.25 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.

Key figures

Federal Communications Commission obligated $657,538,804.26 in South Dakota across 1,527 awards (USAspending.gov).
The pair is awarding-agency 027 × place-of-performance SD.
Amounts are obligations, not outlays; no fiscal year is in this packet.
The implied mean near $430,608.25 is $657,538,804.26 divided by 1527, not a typical award.
The join does not name contractors and does not measure license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers.

Commission 027 overlapping South Dakota

Federal Communications Commission as awarding agency, South Dakota as place-of-performance: 1,527 records summing to $657,538,804.26. A Federal Communications Commission award coded outside SD is out. An award in South Dakota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. A Sioux Falls-coded award with a Minnesota place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

1,527 awards against $657,538,804.26 is a 1,527-award communications file, many rows against a nine-figure Plains sum. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1527 as 1527 unique license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Federal Communications Commission in South Dakota is the both-keys table. South Dakota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency book without an SD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Universal-service folklore is not a packet field. Rapid City and Sioux Falls are unpublished splits. Unique carriers stay unpublished. Correlation is not causation: South Dakota did not cause $657,538,804.26 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 027 × SD only.

Spectrum folklore is unpublished

$657,538,804.26 does not measure license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 027 and an SD place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1527 awards as a census of license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Dakota federal spending or Federal Communications Commission matched $657,538,804.26 and 1527, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state FCC joins are other pairs, not addends.

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Questions

How much has Federal Communications Commission obligated in South Dakota?: USAspending.gov records $657,538,804.26 across 1,527 awards with awarding agency 027 and a South Dakota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Dakota’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Do 1,527 FCC awards mean 1,527 South Dakota licenses?: No. $657,538,804.26 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 027 × SD. It does not measure license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.
Why does this FCC file have 1527 awards?: 1527 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $657,538,804.26 by 1527 yields about $430,608.25 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Where is the live table for Federal Communications Commission in South Dakota?: Federal Communications Commission in South Dakota is the overlay for both keys. South Dakota federal spending is the all-agency South Dakota hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in South Dakota

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