Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Washington

Capital investment grants tagged to Washington

CFDA 20.500 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS. Crossed with Washington place of performance, obligations sum to $2,163,969,640 on 11 awards. The national 20.500 hub includes every state. The Washington spending hub includes every program. This tie is the overlap.

Eleven awards is a concentrated capital-grant pattern: New Starts and related capital programs often post a limited set of large awards rather than a long list of operating invoices. The join does not name transit agencies or specific corridors. Packet facts are $2,163,969,640, 11 awards, WA, and 20.500.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,163,969,640 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.500 and WA. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Washington against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Eleven awards totaling $2,163,969,640 (about $196.72 million mean) is capital investment grants, not urban formula funds. WA is Washington State. Project names and Full Funding Grant Agreements are not in the facts. Formula CFDA dollars must not be added to this cell.

20.500 is not formula grants

Federal Transit Formula Grants use a different CFDA number. Mixing formula dollars into $2,163,969,640 would overstate this cell. Coronavirus Relief Fund and Housing Choice Vouchers in Washington are unrelated catalogs as well.

Facts on this page: Washington, CFDA 20.500, $2,163,969,640, 11 awards. Project lists, Full Funding Grant Agreements, and opening-year ridership forecasts are not in the facts. The catalog title names capital investment grants, not an operating subsidy.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,163,969,640, 11 awards, CFDA 20.500, program title Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants, and geography WA/Washington. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 11 awards into $2,163,969,640 is about $196.72 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Capital investment grants are project-like. Formula grants are operations-like in ordinary speech, though both are assistance catalogs. $2,163,969,640 is 20.500 × WA. Do not add a formula cell to this total.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Capital Investment Grant funding is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $2,163,969,640 in CFDA 20.500 obligations with Washington place of performance across 11 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not FTA’s national total and not an outlay.

Is this the same as formula grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.500 (capital investment grants) only. Formula catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $2,163,969,640 total does not absorb those cells.

Is this Washington, D.C.?

No. The state code is WA (Washington State). The $2,163,969,640 figure is the 20.500 × WA cell.

What is the average award?

About $196.7 million ($2,163,969,640 ÷ 11). That mean is a capital-project scale, not a typical operating invoice.