Department of Transportation federal obligations in Louisiana (agency 069)

What the Transportation–Louisiana join is

Awarding agency 069 and place-of-performance state LA meet here. $5,085,618,905 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Transportation’s nationwide budget, not Louisiana’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. I-10, port, and coastal-highway folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a parish-by-parish road census.

2,705 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — thousands of award actions behind a multi-billion obligation total. Modifications add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. The join does not rank Louisiana against other states and does not name bridges or ports inside the extract.

Open Department of Transportation in Louisiana for the filtered table, Louisiana federal spending for the next hub, Department of Transportation for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Thousands of Transportation actions, one Louisiana filter

Dividing $5,085,618,905 by 2,705 yields about $1,880,081 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical interstate contract. A second Transportation slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Louisiana’s 069 total as a synonym for every DOT account.

I-10, port, and coastal-highway folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 069 without a Louisiana overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Transportation page aggregates 069 without requiring LA geography. The Louisiana federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Louisiana place of performance. Only Department of Transportation in Louisiana applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,705 awards and $5,085,618,905.

Place of performance in Louisiana is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list LA while later work occurs in Texas or Mississippi. Transportation awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in New Orleans. This packet does not split New Orleans from Baton Rouge or Lake Charles.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $5,085,618,905 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Louisiana over-reads the field.

Award count 2,705 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Louisiana–DOT overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Transportation total in Louisiana does not mean the agency caused Louisiana’s port mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between flood geography and highway awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or resilience.

Keep $5,085,618,905 labeled as agency 069 obligations with Louisiana place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Louisiana–Transportation pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 069 (Department of Transportation), Louisiana place of performance, $5,085,618,905 in obligations, and 2,705 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $5,085,618,905 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $1,880,081 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical interstate contract.

Department of Transportation in Louisiana, Louisiana federal spending, Department of Transportation, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $5,085,618,905 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. New Orleans-versus-Baton Rouge folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Port names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Transportation obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $5,085,618,905 in obligations for awarding agency 069 with Louisiana place of performance, covering 2,705 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Transportation’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every Louisiana highway project?

The extract lists 2,705 award actions totaling $5,085,618,905. Average obligation per award is about $1,880,081, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical interstate contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a New Orleans-only Transportation total?

No. $5,085,618,905 and 2,705 awards are statewide Louisiana place of performance. This packet does not split New Orleans from Baton Rouge or Lake Charles. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Transportation–Louisiana table?

Department of Transportation in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Transportation shows agency 069 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.