Department of Commerce obligations in New York 12th District (NY-12)

What the Commerce–NY-12 join is

Awarding agency 013 and congressional district NY-12 meet here. $695,036,312.77 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Commerce’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to New York 12th District (NY-12), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split Commerce bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. 33 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a firm census, a NIST-lab inventory, a trade-mission list, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $695,036,312.77 by 33 yields about $21,061,706.45 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 33 awards is a thin Commerce file. The implied mean is pulled up by size and is not a typical small-business award. Do not treat NY-12’s 013 cell as a synonym for every Commerce account nationwide. Open New York 12th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Commerce for agency 013 without the NY-12 filter, New York federal spending for every awarding agency in the New York extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $695,036,312.77.

Awarding agency 013 as the Commerce side

USAspending labels awarding agency 013 as Department of Commerce. That code produced $695,036,312.77 when crossed with New York 12th District (NY-12) place of performance. The agency-wide 013 hub does not require NY-12 geography. The district hub does not require Commerce. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 33 awards. The packet does not split Commerce bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: New York 12th District (NY-12) did not “cause” $695,036,312.77 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 013 × NY-12 only. It is not a firm census, a NIST-lab inventory, a trade-mission list, or a named-grantee 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.

New York 12th District (NY-12) as place of performance

New York 12th District (NY-12) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list NY-12 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other New York districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 013. New York 12th District (NY-12) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside New York. Other New York districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 013. New York 12th District (NY-12) is a numbered geography distinct from NY-10 and NY-23. This page does not add Agriculture or Energy cells from those other New York districts.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $695,036,312.77 is that kind of sum for Department of Commerce inside NY-12 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 awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $695,036,312.77 as given.

New York’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 33-row Commerce cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 33 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 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 ($21,061,706.45) is a concentration statistic, not a typical NY-12 Commerce payment.

How to cite Commerce in NY-12

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $695,036,312.77 on 33 awards coded to New York 12th District (NY-12). Name Department of Commerce and New York 12th District (NY-12) together. Keep the obligation word. If New York 12th District or Department of Commerce has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a firm census, a NIST-lab inventory, a trade-mission list, or a named-grantee file. 3.2% of $22,043,695,120.58 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Commerce, New York 12th District (NY-12), $695,036,312.77, and 33 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without a NY-12 filter. New York federal spending is the New York parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Commerce does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thin Commerce file in NY-12

33 awards is a thin Commerce file. The implied mean is pulled up by size and is not a typical small-business award. A large row count makes a program 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 $21,061,706.45) and the district share (3.2% of $22,043,695,120.58) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer New York 12th District and Department of Commerce if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Commerce spending is coded to New York 12th District (NY-12)?

USAspending.gov lists $695,036,312.77 in Commerce (agency 013) obligations across 33 awards coded to New York 12th District (NY-12). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not New York’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 3.2% of the district’s published total ($22,043,695,120.58). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $695,036,312.77 include every Commerce program in NY-12?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split Commerce bureaus or contract versus assistance instruments. $695,036,312.77 is the combined obligation sum for agency 013 inside NY-12 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 33 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $695,036,312.77 cash already paid in New York 12th District (NY-12)?

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 $695,036,312.77 as checks already cleared in New York 12th District (NY-12) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 33 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Where is the live Commerce–NY-12 table?

New York 12th District is the district parent and Department of Commerce is the agency parent. New York federal spending covers New York without the district×agency intersection as the headline. All spending ties lists other pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $695,036,312.77. Place of performance is NY-12. Obligations are not outlays.