Department of Transportation federal obligations in Maine

DOT awards tagged to Maine

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Maine as place-of-performance: 1,348 records summing to $1,889,016,121.11. A Department of Transportation award coded outside ME is out. An award in Maine from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maine (ME) excludes New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont. A Portsmouth, New Hampshire tag is NH even if the span crosses the Piscataqua.

One thousand three hundred forty-eight awards is a moderate DOT book for this dollar scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,348 as 1,348 unique lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Transportation in Maine is the both-keys table. Maine federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an ME filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Portland, Bangor, and Down East share one ME stamp. Aviation, highway, transit, and maritime offices can share 069. Correlation is not causation: Maine did not cause $1,889,016,121.11 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × ME only.

Not I-95 folklore or a ferry census

$1,889,016,121.11 does not measure lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an ME place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,348 awards as a census of lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maine federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $1,889,016,121.11 and 1,348, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maine, not a New England corridor rollup

Place of performance ME is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maine (ME) excludes New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont. A Portsmouth, New Hampshire tag is NH even if the span crosses the Piscataqua. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Portland, Bangor, and Down East share one ME stamp. Aviation, highway, transit, and maritime offices can share 069. This packet does not split $1,889,016,121.11 by city, county, or named facility. 1,348 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligation stock versus contractor invoices

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,889,016,121.11 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maine confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maine’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,348-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 $1,889,016,121.11.

Citing DOT in Maine

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $1,889,016,121.11 on 1,348 awards coded to Maine. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Maine if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maine federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to ME. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the ME filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,889,016,121.11.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Maine, $1,889,016,121.11, and 1,348. The compact headline $1.89 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.40 million is $1,889,016,121.11 divided by 1,348. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Maine?

USAspending.gov records $1,889,016,121.11 across 1,348 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Maine tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors. Department of Transportation in Maine is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,889,016,121.11.

Is $1,889,016,121.11 a measure of lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $1,889,016,121.11 and 1,348 awards for agency 069 inside ME 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 1,348 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × ME. Combined with $1,889,016,121.11, the average is about $1.40 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,348 is not unique lane-miles, ferry routes, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DOT–Maine table?

Department of Transportation in Maine is the overlay. Maine 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 $1,889,016,121.11. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is ME.