DOT obligations in Colorado 3rd District (CO-03)

A place-of-performance join: DOT × CO-03

Awarding agency 069 and congressional district CO-03 meet here. $857,103,051.19 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 Colorado 3rd District (CO-03), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOT modal administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 387 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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.

Dividing $857,103,051.19 by 387 yields about $2,214,736.57 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 387 awards is a mid-size DOT file. Share near seven percent leaves most of CO-03’s published district total in other awarding agencies. Do not treat CO-03’s 069 cell as a synonym for every DOT account nationwide. Open Colorado 3rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Transportation for agency 069 without a CO-03 filter, Colorado federal spending for every awarding agency in the Colorado extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $857,103,051.19.

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels awarding agency 069 as Department of Transportation. That code produced $857,103,051.19 when crossed with Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) place of performance. The agency-wide 069 hub does not require CO-03 geography. The district hub does not require DOT. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 387 awards. The packet does not split DOT modal administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) did not “cause” $857,103,051.19 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 069 × CO-03 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.

Place of performance for Colorado 3rd District (CO-03)

Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CO-03 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Colorado districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 069. Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Colorado. Other Colorado districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 069. Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) is not Colorado 1st or Colorado 5th. Same state, different place-of-performance codes, different awarding-agency pairs.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $857,103,051.19 is that kind of sum for Department of Transportation inside CO-03 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 $857,103,051.19 as given.

Colorado’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 387-row DOT cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 387 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 ($2,214,736.57) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CO-03 DOT payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $857,103,051.19 on 387 awards coded to Colorado 3rd District (CO-03). Name Department of Transportation and Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) together. Keep the obligation word. If Colorado 3rd 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 $11,761,569,447.55 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Using 7.3% and $2,214,736.57 without overclaiming

387 awards is a mid-size DOT file. Share near seven percent leaves most of CO-03’s published district total in other awarding agencies. 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 $2,214,736.57) and the district share (7.3% of $11,761,569,447.55) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Colorado 3rd District and Department of Transportation if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) 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 $857,103,051.19 and 387 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 Colorado 3rd District (CO-03)?

USAspending.gov lists $857,103,051.19 in Department of Transportation obligations across 387 awards with place of performance in Colorado 3rd District (CO-03). Agency 069 × CO-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Colorado’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.3% of the district’s published total ($11,761,569,447.55). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2,214,736.57, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $857,103,051.19 include every DOT program in CO-03?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOT modal administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $857,103,051.19 is the combined obligation sum for agency 069 inside CO-03 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Transportation and Colorado 3rd District to inspect parent tables. 387 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $857,103,051.19 cash already paid in Colorado 3rd District (CO-03)?

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 $857,103,051.19 as checks already cleared in Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 387 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) ranked against other Colorado districts here?

No. This page does not rank Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) as a winner or loser. $857,103,051.19 and 387 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Transportation and Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) together without a league table.