BEAD Program funding in Montana 2nd District (MT-02)

A place-of-performance join: BEAD × MT-02

CFDA 11.035 and congressional district MT-02 meet here. $628,973,798.60 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Montana 2nd District (MT-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split last-mile from middle-mile work and does not name internet-service providers. 1 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a fiber-mile inventory, an ISP roster, or a named-subgrantee file.

Dividing $628,973,798.60 by 1 yields about $628,973,798.60 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a cost per passing or a posted per-household figure. One award means the implied mean equals the cell. Do not invent an ISP or a county fiber plan. Do not treat MT-02’s 11.035 cell as a synonym for every BEAD account nationwide. Open Montana 2nd District for the district table without this program filter, CFDA 11.035 for CFDA 11.035 without the MT-02 filter, Montana federal spending for every program in the Montana extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $628,973,798.60.

Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program as a CFDA tag, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels CFDA 11.035 as Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program. That catalog number produced $628,973,798.60 when crossed with Montana 2nd District (MT-02) place of performance. The program-wide 11.035 hub does not require MT-02 geography. The district hub does not require BEAD. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1 awards. The packet does not split last-mile from middle-mile work and does not name internet-service providers.

Correlation is not causation: Montana 2nd District (MT-02) did not “cause” $628,973,798.60 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 11.035 × MT-02 only. It is not a fiber-mile inventory, an ISP roster, or a named-subgrantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Place of performance for Montana 2nd District (MT-02)

Montana 2nd District (MT-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MT-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Montana districts belong on those ties even when the CFDA is also 11.035. Montana 2nd District (MT-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Montana. Other Montana districts are separate joins even when they reuse CFDA 11.035. Montana 2nd District (MT-02) is a numbered geography, not an at-large stamp. Place of performance is MT-02 only.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $628,973,798.60 is that kind of sum for Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program inside MT-02 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same CFDA rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $628,973,798.60 as given.

Montana’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1-row BEAD cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 1 is not a count of miles, households, or ISPs. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($628,973,798.60) is a concentration statistic, not a cost per passing or a posted per-household figure.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program (CFDA 11.035) obligated $628,973,798.60 on 1 awards coded to Montana 2nd District (MT-02). Name Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program and Montana 2nd District (MT-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Montana 2nd District or CFDA 11.035 has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a fiber-mile inventory, an ISP roster, or a named-subgrantee file. 6.3% of $9,996,419,057.28 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score. This is another one-row BEAD pair on this slice, alongside Oregon 6th, New Mexico 3rd, and New York 12th. Each district stamp is a separate USAspending join.

Using 6.3% and $628,973,798.60 without overclaiming

One award means the implied mean equals the cell. Do not invent an ISP or a county fiber plan. A large row count makes a project split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $628,973,798.60) and the district share (6.3% of $9,996,419,057.28) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Montana 2nd District and CFDA 11.035 if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Montana 2nd District (MT-02) as more BEAD-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 11.035 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 11.035 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $628,973,798.60 and 1 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much BEAD spending is coded to Montana 2nd District (MT-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $628,973,798.60 in Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program obligations across 1 awards with place of performance in Montana 2nd District (MT-02). CFDA 11.035 × MT-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Montana’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 6.3% of the district’s published total ($9,996,419,057.28). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $628,973,798.60, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $628,973,798.60 include every BEAD project in MT-02?

The packet publishes one CFDA rollup. The packet does not split last-mile from middle-mile work and does not name internet-service providers. $628,973,798.60 is the combined obligation sum for CFDA 11.035 inside MT-02 coding. This page will not invent a project pie or name contractors. Open CFDA 11.035 and Montana 2nd District to inspect parent tables. 1 remains an action count, not a count of miles, households, or ISPs.

Is $628,973,798.60 cash already paid in Montana 2nd District (MT-02)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $628,973,798.60 as checks already cleared in Montana 2nd District (MT-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1 awards. Prefer the live district and program hubs if the tables moved.

Is Montana 2nd District (MT-02) ranked against other Montana districts here?

No. This page does not rank Montana 2nd District (MT-02) as a winner or loser. $628,973,798.60 and 1 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program and Montana 2nd District (MT-02) together without a league table.