DOT obligations in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02)

Reading agency 069 inside AR-02

Awarding agency 069 and congressional district AR-02 meet here. $842,438,772.41 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Transportation’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOT modal administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 239 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership count, or a named-contractor file.

This page reports transportation awarding activity USAspending tagged to this district. The headline $842,438,772.41 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $11,565,306,530.99; the 7.3% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of Arkansas districts as winners or losers. District 90 and 98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest. Obligations are not outlays.

Agency 069 without inventing a component pie

USAspending labels awarding agency 069 as Department of Transportation. That code produced $842,438,772.41 when crossed with Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 069 hub does not require AR-02 geography. The district hub does not require DOT. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 239 awards. The packet does not split DOT modal administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) did not “cause” $842,438,772.41 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 069 × AR-02 only. It is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership count, or a named-contractor 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.

How Arkansas 2nd District is coded

Arkansas 2nd District (AR-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 AR-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Arkansas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 069. Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Arkansas. Other Arkansas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 069. Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Arkansas. Other Arkansas districts are not this join. The packet does not publish a city split.

Arkansas federal spending shows how agency 069 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $842,438,772.41 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Transportation. The district-wide obligation total published here is $11,565,306,530.99; $842,438,772.41 is the DOT slice of that denominator.

What the dollar figure is allowed to mean

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $842,438,772.41 is that kind of sum for Department of Transportation inside AR-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 awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $842,438,772.41 as given.

Arkansas’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 239-row DOT cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 239 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 ($3,524,848.42) is a concentration statistic, not a typical AR-02 DOT payment.

Parents of this tie: district, agency, state

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $842,438,772.41 on 239 awards coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02). Name Department of Transportation and Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Arkansas 2nd District or Department of Transportation has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership count, or a named-contractor file. 7.3% of $11,565,306,530.99 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Transportation, Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02), $842,438,772.41, and 239 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without a AR-02 filter. Arkansas federal spending is the Arkansas parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with DOT does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Limits of the AR-02 × 069 snapshot

239 awards is a moderate DOT file. The implied mean is a concentration statistic, not a typical highway or transit instrument. 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 $3,524,848.42) and the district share (7.3% of $11,565,306,530.99) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Arkansas 2nd District and Department of Transportation if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) as more DOT-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 069 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 069 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $842,438,772.41 and 239 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much DOT spending is coded to Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $842,438,772.41 in Department of Transportation obligations across 239 awards with place of performance in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02). Agency 069 × AR-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Arkansas’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.3% of the district’s published total ($11,565,306,530.99). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $3,524,848.42, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $842,438,772.41 include every DOT program in AR-02?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOT modal administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $842,438,772.41 is the combined obligation sum for agency 069 inside AR-02 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Transportation and Arkansas 2nd District to inspect parent tables. 239 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $842,438,772.41 cash already paid in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-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 $842,438,772.41 as checks already cleared in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 239 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Do FEC donations fund these DOT awards in AR-02?

No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing Arkansas geography does not mean donations funded $842,438,772.41 in Arkansas 2nd District (AR-02). This page reports USAspending.gov awarding-agency 069 crossed with place of performance AR-02. It does not report campaign finance.