Department of Justice federal obligations in Montana

How Justice and Montana meet in one table

$180,484,255.64 is not Department of Justice's national book with a Montana footnote, and it is not Montana's all-agency book with a Justice footnote. It is the intersection only. High-plains, mountain-west, and capital-city folklore stays outside the numeric fields.

Do not convert 460 into grantees. The field is awardCount. USAspending.gov award actions include new awards, modifications, and other recorded events. This page copies the count; it does not re-label it as people, campuses, or companies.

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

Reading 460 actions without a type split

A typical justice-grant award would need program and instrument fields. Those fields are absent. The honest caption is: 460 actions, $180,484,255.64 obligated, mean about $392,357.08, source USAspending.gov.

A mid-size award list is a description of 460, not a quality judgment. Large or small lists can both be accurate extracts of the same two keys.

Hub pages are larger than this cell

The overlay path is /states/mt/agencies/015/. That path already encodes both MT and agency 015. This ties slug exists so the same pair can be discussed as a relationship page rather than only as a filtered table.

Sibling Justice overlays in other states are separate cells. They do not have to sum with $180,484,255.64 to a national figure on this page, because no national figure is in the packet.

Keep the obligation word on every reuse

Voice on this packet says to lead with the dollar figure and to name USAspending.gov. It also says the page is a JOIN. Those three instructions are why $180,484,255.64 appears before any geography color.

The canonical path is /ties/department-of-justice-in-montana/. The overlay target is /states/mt/agencies/015/. Both describe the same pair: Department of Justice and Montana.

Public records, not accusations

Justice-grant and law-enforcement folklore is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. High-plains, mountain-west, and capital-city folklore is the same kind of unused path.

All spending ties lists other pairs. Visiting them does not change $180,484,255.64. Each join has its own extract. Do not claim that donations paid for $180,484,255.64 in Montana. The source is USAspending.gov, not a campaign-finance file.

Index, overlay, and statewide hub

Place-of-performance Montana is statewide; it does not split Billings, Missoula, and Helena. Neighbor-coded work in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Idaho stays out.

If the live overlay later disagrees with $180,484,255.64 or 460, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $180,484,255.64, 460 awards, agency 015, Department of Justice, Montana (MT), and the obligation unit. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $180,484,255.64. Department of Justice in Montana remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Montana is statewide; it does not split Billings, Missoula, and Helena. Neighbor-coded activity in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Idaho stays out even if mail is handled in Billings. Correlation is not causation. Justice-grant and law-enforcement 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. High-plains, mountain-west, and capital-city folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 015 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national Justice budget on this page. Montana's $180,484,255.64 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from Department of Justice and call the difference 'Montana versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. Department of Justice is the awarding-agency label stored on the Montana overlay; the numeric key is 015. Readers who only remember the short name Justice still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $180,484,255.64. The 460 figure is not a count of grantees and is not a count of distinct Justice programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $392,357.08 is not a typical justice-grant award. Billings is a reader landmark, not a published subtotal. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/mt/agencies/015/ and canonicalPath /ties/department-of-justice-in-montana/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar.

Questions

What is the Justice obligation total for Montana?

USAspending.gov records $180,484,255.64 in obligations for awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice) with Montana place of performance, covering 460 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Justice's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.

Are unique grantees listed for Montana?

The extract lists 460 award actions totaling $180,484,255.64. Average obligation per award is about $392,357.08, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical justice-grant award. Unique grantees are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are neighbor-coded Justice awards included in Montana?

No. $180,484,255.64 and 460 awards are statewide Montana place of performance. This packet does not split Billings, Missoula, and Helena. Awards coded to North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Idaho are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Billings. The geography key remains MT.

How do I open the Montana overlay for Justice agency 015?

Department of Justice in Montana is the overlay. Montana federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Justice shows agency 015 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.