Department of Transportation federal obligations in Iowa

DOT awards tagged to Iowa

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Iowa as place-of-performance: 1,559 records summing to $2,692,694,982.26. A Department of Transportation award coded outside IA is out. An award in Iowa from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Iowa (IA) excludes Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. A Rock Island-coded award is Illinois.

One thousand five hundred fifty-nine awards is a typical DOT formula-plus-project file. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction job. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,559 as 1,559 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Iowa is the both-keys table. Iowa federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an IA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Des Moines and the rest of the ninety-nine counties share one IA stamp. This packet does not isolate an airport AIP award. Correlation is not causation: Iowa did not “cause” $2,692,694,982.26 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × IA only.

Not a county-road or I-80 ranking

$2,692,694,982.26 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 IA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,559 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Iowa federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,692,694,982.26 and 1,559, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Iowa statewide, not a Corn Belt corridor

Place of performance IA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Iowa (IA) excludes Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. A Rock Island-coded award is Illinois. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Des Moines and the rest of the ninety-nine counties share one IA stamp. This packet does not isolate an airport AIP award. This packet does not split $2,692,694,982.26 by city, county, or named facility. 1,559 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Formula-plus-project volume, still commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,692,694,982.26 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Iowa confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Iowa’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,559-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 $2,692,694,982.26.

Citing DOT in Iowa

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $2,692,694,982.26 on 1,559 awards coded to Iowa. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Iowa if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Iowa federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to IA. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the IA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,692,694,982.26.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Iowa, $2,692,694,982.26, and 1,559. The compact headline $2.69 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.73 million is $2,692,694,982.26 divided by 1,559. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Iowa?

USAspending.gov records $2,692,694,982.26 across 1,559 awards with awarding agency 069 and an Iowa 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 Iowa is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,692,694,982.26.

Is $2,692,694,982.26 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,692,694,982.26 and 1,559 awards for agency 069 inside IA 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 1,559 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × IA. Combined with $2,692,694,982.26, the average is about $1.73 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,559 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 Iowa is the overlay. Iowa 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 $2,692,694,982.26. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.