Department of Commerce obligations in Vermont

Reading $282,685,224.91 as a two-filter total

Start with the pair, not a story. Department of Commerce plus Vermont is the definition of this page. $282,685,224.91 is the obligation aggregate USAspending.gov reports for that pair. 36 is the accompanying award count. Nothing else in the packet adds a third total.

Behind $282,685,224.91 sit 36 recorded actions. That is a small award list. A long list is not automatically many distinct projects, and a short list is not automatically one project. The packet does not include a unique-award or unique-recipient field.

Open Department of Commerce in Vermont for the filtered table, Vermont federal spending for the next hub, Department of Commerce for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Division is not a typical-award study

Keep $7,852,367.36 labeled as a mean. Do not call it a typical Commerce payment in Vermont. Typical would require a distribution, and the packet has only a sum and a count. Department of Commerce in Vermont remains the live table.

The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

Vermont geography versus New York, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts

Vermont federal spending collects every awarding agency tagged to Vermont. Department of Commerce collects every state tagged to Department of Commerce. Only Department of Commerce in Vermont is supposed to match $282,685,224.91 among those three links.

If a reader needs a city table, this packet is the wrong artifact. Statewide Vermont is the only geography grain published here.

No fiscal year is published in the facts

The sourceNote is: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays. Repeating $282,685,224.91 as cash already spent in Vermont is a unit error, not a rounding error.

Cite USAspending.gov as the source. Do not cite FEC, Census, or a press office as the origin of $282,685,224.91. Those are other systems.

Donations do not fund this USAspending cell

No contractor, grantee, or beneficiary name is in the packet, so none is invented here. Unique bureaus or recipients would live on the overlay if USAspending.gov lists them there.

Correlation is not causation. A large Commerce cell in Vermont does not explain Vermont politics, and Vermont politics does not explain $282,685,224.91.

Closing the loop on agency 013 and VT

Reuse $282,685,224.91 only with both filters visible. Agency 013 without Vermont is Department of Commerce. Vermont without agency 013 is Vermont federal spending.

All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $282,685,224.91. Department of Commerce in Vermont remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Vermont is statewide; it does not split Burlington, Montpelier, and Brattleboro. Neighbor-coded activity in New York, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts stays out even if mail is handled in Burlington. Correlation is not causation. Census, weather, standards, and development folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Green mountains, lake-shore, and mill-town folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 013 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national Commerce budget on this page. Vermont's $282,685,224.91 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from Department of Commerce and call the difference 'Vermont versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. Department of Commerce is the awarding-agency label stored on the Vermont overlay; the numeric key is 013. Readers who only remember the short name Commerce still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $282,685,224.91. The 36 figure is not a count of unique bureaus or recipients and is not a count of distinct Commerce programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $7,852,367.36 is not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award. Thirty-six rows can hide one large instrument beside modifications. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/vt/agencies/013/ and canonicalPath /ties/department-of-commerce-in-vermont/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $282,685,224.91 or 36, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $282,685,224.91, 36 awards, agency 013, Department of Commerce, Vermont (VT), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the Commerce obligation total for Vermont?

USAspending.gov records $282,685,224.91 in obligations for awarding agency 013 (Department of Commerce) with Vermont place of performance, covering 36 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.

Does the Vermont Commerce extract name bureaus as recipients?

The extract lists 36 award actions totaling $282,685,224.91. Average obligation per award is about $7,852,367.36, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award. Unique bureaus or recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are New Hampshire Commerce awards in this Vermont cell?

No. $282,685,224.91 and 36 awards are statewide Vermont place of performance. This packet does not split Burlington, Montpelier, and Brattleboro. Awards coded to New York, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Burlington. The geography key remains VT.

Where is the Vermont overlay for Commerce agency 013?

Department of Commerce in Vermont is the overlay. Vermont federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Commerce shows agency 013 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.