Department of Transportation federal obligations in Idaho

DOT awards tagged to Idaho

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Idaho as place-of-performance: 2,573 records summing to $2,473,699,858.31. A Department of Transportation award coded outside ID is out. An award in Idaho from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Idaho (ID) excludes Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah. A Spokane-coded award is Washington.

Two thousand five hundred seventy-three awards is a mid-count DOT file. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,573 as 2,573 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Idaho is the both-keys table. Idaho federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an ID filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Boise, the Panhandle, and the rest of the state share one ID stamp. A mode split is unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Idaho did not “cause” $2,473,699,858.31 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × ID only.

Not a mountain-pass or lane-mile census

$2,473,699,858.31 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 an ID place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,573 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Idaho federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,473,699,858.31 and 2,573, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, Oregon, and Montana DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Idaho, not a Pacific Northwest rollup

Place of performance ID is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Idaho (ID) excludes Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah. A Spokane-coded award is Washington. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Boise, the Panhandle, and the rest of the state share one ID stamp. A mode split is unpublished. This packet does not split $2,473,699,858.31 by city, county, or named facility. 2,573 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Mid-count DOT file, still commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,473,699,858.31 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Idaho confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Idaho’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,573-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 $2,473,699,858.31.

Citing DOT in Idaho

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $2,473,699,858.31 on 2,573 awards coded to Idaho. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Idaho if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Idaho federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to ID. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the ID filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,473,699,858.31.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Idaho, $2,473,699,858.31, and 2,573. The compact headline $2.47 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $961,407 is $2,473,699,858.31 divided by 2,573. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Idaho?

USAspending.gov records $2,473,699,858.31 across 2,573 awards with awarding agency 069 and an Idaho 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 Idaho is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,473,699,858.31.

Is $2,473,699,858.31 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,473,699,858.31 and 2,573 awards for agency 069 inside ID 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 2,573 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × ID. Combined with $2,473,699,858.31, the average is about $961,407. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,573 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 Idaho is the overlay. Idaho 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 $2,473,699,858.31. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.