Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment obligations in Louisiana

One BEAD award beside Louisiana’s FEMA cells

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 11.035 meets Louisiana place of performance. The dollar book is $1,355,554,553. The award count is 1. BEAD state allocations typically post as a single large award to the designated state recipient. One prime record does not mean one ISP was selected, and it does not isolate coastal parishes from northern Louisiana.

The join does not prove that Louisiana’s unserved-location count, wetland geography, or a particular middle-mile map caused $1,355,554,553. Those are other series. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Louisiana’s full federal total has left the CFDA-by-state definition. IHP disaster assistance and Title I are different cells on the same statewide stack. The 1 figure is a record count, not a count of passing addresses.

The implied mean equals the cell

One award under $1,355,554,553 implies a mean of $1,355,554,553. With a single row, mean and total are the same number. Downstream subawards to ISPs are not additional prime awards in this extract.

Louisiana’s IHP cell posts 32 awards on a different catalog number; do not add BEAD and IHP from memory. Cite BEAD’s own columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the total as a typical last-mile contract.

Louisiana’s 11.035 cell versus parent rollups

Louisiana’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. BEAD is one NTIA line. $1,355,554,553 is not Louisiana’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 11.035 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance on a state BEAD award usually sits on Louisiana even when future subawards scatter. This packet does not reallocate dollars to parishes. Read the overlay as a coding view of 1 award.

Obligations versus fiber in the ground

The $1,355,554,553 figure is an obligation sum. Construction outlays can trail the federal obligation by years. SpendingVault does not publish an 11.035-in-Louisiana outlay total in this packet. Mixing FCC map locations or speed-test statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 11.035 × Louisiana, $1,355,554,553, 1 award, obligations only.

Parent hubs

The Louisiana × Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,355,554,553 on 1 award. The Louisiana spending page and the CFDA 11.035 program page are the parents. The Louisiana programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into fiber miles or into outlays this packet omits.

What Louisiana BEAD is not

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program in Louisiana is not a ranking of parishes by unserved locations and not a count of fiber miles. The $1,355,554,553 figure is the CFDA 11.035 × Louisiana cell. One award describes the state allocation filing, not one ISP. Coastal and northern parishes are not isolated in this packet.

IHP (32 awards) and Hazard Mitigation Grant (18 awards) are FEMA cells on the same statewide stack. Adding those to BEAD from memory is a different query. Cite 11.035 and Louisiana together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 1-award count. Construction draws can lag the federal obligation by years. Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the record count.

Louisiana’s BEAD cell also does not include FCC map locations, coastal-versus-northern parish project lists, or ISP subawards. Those series live with NTIA and the state broadband office after subawards post. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 11.035 × Louisiana, $1,355,554,553, 1 award. With one row, the implied mean equals the total. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a construction story.

Keep both sides of the join in any citation: Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment and Louisiana, obligations only, one award on $1,355,554,553.

Questions

How much BEAD spending is in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov shows $1,355,554,553 in CFDA 11.035 obligations coded to Louisiana across 1 award. The join uses the program number and Louisiana place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why is there only 1 award for $1.36 billion?

BEAD state allocations often post as a single large prime award to the designated state recipient. The extract counts 1 record tagged to CFDA 11.035 and Louisiana. With one award, the implied mean equals the total: $1,355,554,553.

Is $1.36 billion Louisiana’s full federal spending?

No. $1,355,554,553 is only the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program cell. Other CFDA programs with Louisiana place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 11.035 is not limited to Louisiana.

Do these obligations equal broadband construction completed?

No. $1,355,554,553 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Construction draws can lag the federal obligation by years.