Department of Transportation federal obligations in Kentucky

DOT awards tagged to Kentucky

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Kentucky as place-of-performance: 1,793 records summing to $4,040,815,093.66. A Department of Transportation award coded outside KY is out. An award in Kentucky from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Kentucky (KY) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. A Cincinnati-coded award is Ohio.

One thousand seven hundred ninety-three 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 1,793 as 1,793 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Kentucky is the both-keys table. Kentucky federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a KY filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Louisville, Lexington, and eastern Kentucky share one KY stamp. This packet does not split them. Correlation is not causation: Kentucky did not “cause” $4,040,815,093.66 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × KY only.

Not a bridge census or I-75 folklore

$4,040,815,093.66 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 KY place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,793 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Kentucky federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $4,040,815,093.66 and 1,793, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Ohio, Tennessee, and Indiana DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Kentucky, not a Louisville-versus-mountain split

Place of performance KY is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Kentucky (KY) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. A Cincinnati-coded award is Ohio. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Louisville, Lexington, and eastern Kentucky share one KY stamp. This packet does not split them. This packet does not split $4,040,815,093.66 by city, county, or named facility. 1,793 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Mode mix unpublished, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,040,815,093.66 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Kentucky confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Kentucky’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,793-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 $4,040,815,093.66. Sharing a state with DOT does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing DOT in Kentucky

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $4,040,815,093.66 on 1,793 awards coded to Kentucky. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Kentucky if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Kentucky federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to KY. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the KY filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,040,815,093.66.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Kentucky, $4,040,815,093.66, and 1,793. The compact headline $4.04 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.25 million is $4,040,815,093.66 divided by 1,793. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Kentucky?

USAspending.gov records $4,040,815,093.66 across 1,793 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Kentucky 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 Kentucky is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,040,815,093.66.

Is $4,040,815,093.66 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $4,040,815,093.66 and 1,793 awards for agency 069 inside KY 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 1,793 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × KY. Combined with $4,040,815,093.66, the average is about $2.25 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,793 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 Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky 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 $4,040,815,093.66. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.