Highway Planning and Construction in Wisconsin

How Wisconsin meets CFDA 20.205

CFDA 20.205 is titled HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. Crossed with Wisconsin place of performance, obligations sum to $3,765,561,862.61 on 2,942 awards. The national highway-planning hub includes other states. Wisconsin’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,765,561,862.61 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of reconstructed miles.

2,942 awards is a high-volume Federal-aid pattern: more instruments than many states post under the same catalog, which usually means many smaller project-level rows rather than a few statewide lumps. The join does not name WisDOT regions, list contractors, or count roundabouts. Packet facts stop at $3,765,561,862.61, 2,942 awards, WI, and 20.205. Correlation is not causation. 2,942 highway instruments carrying $3,765,561,862.61 is the high-count Federal-aid side of this slice, which usually means more project-level rows rather than a larger typical contract.

A high award count is not a bigger highway system

The catalog title names Highway Planning And Construction. A 2,942-row count does not prove Wisconsin built more than a state with fewer awards and a similar dollar total. Facts available: Wisconsin, CFDA 20.205, $3,765,561,862.61, 2,942 awards. Bid tabs, letting dates, and contractor names are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,765,561,862.61 by 2,942 yields about $1.28 million per award—smaller than a typical statewide formula lump, consistent with many project-scale instruments. Unique recipients are unpublished. 2,942 is not a census of work zones.

Questions

How much highway planning funding is obligated in Wisconsin?

USAspending records $3,765,561,862.61 in CFDA 20.205 obligations with Wisconsin place of performance on 2,942 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Highway Planning And Construction and Wisconsin together when citing $3,765,561,862.61. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Why does Wisconsin show 2,942 highway awards?

2,942 is a USAspending award-record count, not a project or contractor census. The implied mean is about $1.28 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. A high row count does not prove more miles built. Obligations of $3,765,561,862.61 are not outlays.

Is $3.77 billion Wisconsin’s full federal transportation spend?

No. $3,765,561,862.61 is only the 20.205 × Wisconsin cell. Other transportation catalogs appear on separate Wisconsin program pages. Nationwide 20.205 is not limited to Wisconsin. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.205 × WI pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Are these highway dollars already paid to contractors?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live highway–Wisconsin table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.