Formula Grants for Rural Areas and Tribal Transit Program in Wyoming

Rural and tribal transit dollars tagged to Wyoming

CFDA 20.509 is titled FORMULA GRANTS FOR RURAL AREAS AND TRIBAL TRANSIT PROGRAM. Filtered to Wyoming place of performance, obligations sum to $53,325,487.78 on 10 awards. The national Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program hub includes every other state. Wyoming's spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $53,325,487.78 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of buses, routes, or operators in Cheyenne, Casper, or Gillette.

Formula transit assistance often posts as a modest number of state or tribal instruments rather than one row per vehicle. The join does not name recipients, split rural counties from tribal operators, or count ridership. Packet facts stop at $53,325,487.78, 10 awards, WY, and 20.509. Correlation is not causation.

No fiscal year appears in the packet. Do not treat $53,325,487.78 as a single FTA apportionment year or as money already drawn. Do not invent contractors, transit agencies, or award recipients.

20.509 is not urbanized-area formula transit in Wyoming

Urbanized Area Formula Grants and other FTA capital catalogs sit on different CFDA numbers. Mixing those dollars into $53,325,487.78 would invent a broader total than this 20.509 × WY cell contains. Facts available: Wyoming, CFDA 20.509, $53,325,487.78, 10 awards. The program name on the packet is Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program.

Dividing $53,325,487.78 by 10 yields about $5.33 million per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical vehicle cost and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Ten is not a count of Wyoming transit agencies, tribes, or counties.

Questions

How much rural and tribal transit funding is obligated in Wyoming?

USAspending.gov shows $53,325,487.78 in CFDA 20.509 obligations coded to Wyoming across 10 awards. The catalog is Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep 20.509 and Wyoming together when citing $53,325,487.78.

Is 20.509 the same as urban transit formula grants in Wyoming?

No. This cell is CFDA 20.509 only. Urbanized-area formula grants use other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $53,325,487.78. Ten is a record count, not an operator census. Keep Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program and Wyoming together when citing $53,325,487.78. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so the 20.509 × Wyoming cell cannot be annualized from these facts.

Does 10 awards mean 10 Wyoming transit agencies?

Ten is a USAspending award-record count, not an agency, tribe, or route census. The implied mean is about $5.33 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $53,325,487.78 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $53,325,487.78, 10 awards, WY, and 20.509. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal buses already purchased?

No. $53,325,487.78 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no vehicle or ridership count. Keep the obligation label when citing the 20.509 × WY pair. Keep the obligation label on $53,325,487.78 and name both Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program and Wyoming. Original filings for CFDA 20.509 remain on USAspending.gov.