Hazard Mitigation Grant in Vermont

How the Hazard Mitigation Grant–Vermont cell is built

USAspending.gov stores assistance under Catalog numbers. CFDA 97.039 is titled HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT. The Vermont filter is a place-of-performance state code (VT), not a list of towns that received checks. Where those two fields meet, obligations sum to $63,853,071.37 on 10 awards. The national Hazard Mitigation Grant hub still includes every other state. Vermont federal spending still includes every other program. This tie is only the intersection.

An obligation is a legal commitment recorded in the USAspending feed. It is not an outlay. The packet does not publish a fiscal year, so $63,853,071.37 cannot be treated as a single-year appropriation or as a completed drawdown. Correlation between Vermont geography and 97.039 catalog coding is not evidence that mitigation work caused, prevented, or paid for a named flood, ice storm, or buyout.

Packet facts stop at Vermont, CFDA 97.039, $63,853,071.37, and 10 awards. Recipient names, subawards, project addresses, and hazard types are absent. Do not invent contractors, counties, or award recipients to fill those gaps.

What CFDA 97.039 covers on this page

The catalog title is Hazard Mitigation Grant, a FEMA assistance line that USAspending keeps separate from Public Assistance for Presidentially Declared Disasters and from other preparedness catalogs. Mixing those other numbers into $63,853,071.37 would invent a broader total than this 97.039 × VT cell contains. The program name on the packet is Hazard Mitigation Grant; the CFDA title in all caps is HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT. Both refer to the same catalog row.

Dividing $63,853,071.37 by 10 yields about $6.39 million per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical household elevation cost and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Ten is a record count in an aggregate, not ten finished mitigation projects and not ten Vermont counties.

Questions

How much Hazard Mitigation Grant funding is obligated in Vermont?

USAspending.gov shows $63,853,071.37 in CFDA 97.039 obligations coded to Vermont across 10 awards. The join uses the program number and Vermont place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Hazard Mitigation Grant and Vermont together when citing $63,853,071.37.

Is the Hazard Mitigation Grant the same as FEMA Public Assistance in Vermont?

No. This cell is CFDA 97.039 only. Public Assistance for presidentially declared disasters sits on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $63,853,071.37. Ten is a record count, not a project census.

Does 10 awards mean 10 Vermont towns received grants?

Ten is a USAspending award-record count, not a town, county, or project census. The implied mean is about $6.39 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $63,853,071.37 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $63,853,071.37, 10 awards, VT, and 97.039. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal money already spent on mitigation?

No. $63,853,071.37 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no project, structure, or disaster count. Keep the obligation label when citing the pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 97.039 × VT pair.