How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov records $4,593,394,293.93 across 2,857 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Colorado tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Department of Transportation in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,593,394,293.93.

Is $4,593,394,293.93 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $4,593,394,293.93 and 2,857 awards for agency 069 inside CO coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOT file have 2,857 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × CO. Combined with $4,593,394,293.93, the average is about $1.61 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,857 is not unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $4,593,394,293.93. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.

← All data ties

Department of Transportation federal obligations in Colorado

The Department of Transportation shows $4,593,394,293.93 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Colorado, across 2,857 awards. Awarding-agency 069 and Colorado (CO) are the pair. Two thousand eight hundred fifty-seven awards sits in a moderate DOT band. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. The implied mean is about $1.61 million per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.

Key figures

DOT in Colorado: $4,593,394,293.93 across 2,857 USAspending awards.
Implied mean about $1.61 million per record — a packet quotient, not a typical project.
Agency 069 × CO is not a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.
Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
Colorado federal spending and Department of Transportation are parents, not amounts to add into $4,593,394,293.93.

DOT awards tagged to Colorado

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Colorado as place-of-performance: 2,857 records summing to $4,593,394,293.93. A Department of Transportation award coded outside CO is out. An award in Colorado from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming.

Two thousand eight hundred fifty-seven awards sits in a moderate DOT band. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,857 as 2,857 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Colorado is the both-keys table. Colorado federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a CO filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Denver International and mountain-pass folklore are unpublished. $4,593,394,293.93 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Colorado did not “cause” $4,593,394,293.93 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × CO only.

Not an I-70 mountain-corridor census

$4,593,394,293.93 does not measure lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and a CO place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,857 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Colorado federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $4,593,394,293.93 and 2,857, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Colorado, not a Front Range-only map

Place of performance CO is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Denver International and mountain-pass folklore are unpublished. $4,593,394,293.93 stays statewide. This packet does not split $4,593,394,293.93 by city, county, or named facility. 2,857 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Award stock versus contractor draws

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,593,394,293.93 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Colorado confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Colorado’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,857-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $4,593,394,293.93. Sharing a state with DOT does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing DOT in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $4,593,394,293.93 on 2,857 awards coded to Colorado. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Colorado if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Colorado federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CO. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the CO filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,593,394,293.93.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Colorado, $4,593,394,293.93, and 2,857. The compact headline $4.59 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.61 million is $4,593,394,293.93 divided by 2,857. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Colorado?: USAspending.gov records $4,593,394,293.93 across 2,857 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Colorado tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Department of Transportation in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,593,394,293.93.
Is $4,593,394,293.93 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?: No. The packet publishes $4,593,394,293.93 and 2,857 awards for agency 069 inside CO coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.
Why does this DOT file have 2,857 awards?: That is the award-record count for 069 × CO. Combined with $4,593,394,293.93, the average is about $1.61 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,857 is not unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Where is the live table?: Department of Transportation in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $4,593,394,293.93. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.