Department of Transportation federal obligations in Massachusetts

What the DOT–Massachusetts join is

Awarding agency 069 and place-of-performance state MA meet here. $8,231,436,554.27 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Transportation’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Massachusetts, and not an outlay register. Highway, transit, aviation, and maritime offices can share 069. A 2,096-row file is close to Maryland’s DOT row count in this slice; similar counts do not imply similar mode mix.

2,096 is a moderate row count, consistent with a mix of formula vehicles and project awards, without naming those vehicles. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $8,231,436,554.27 by 2,096 yields about $3.93 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.

Open Department of Transportation in Massachusetts for the live filtered table, Massachusetts federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Transportation for agency 069 without a Massachusetts filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $8,231,436,554.27.

Awarding agency 069 as the DOT side

USAspending labels awarding agency 069 as Department of Transportation. That code produced $8,231,436,554.27 when crossed with Massachusetts place of performance. The agency-wide 069 hub does not require MA geography. The Massachusetts hub does not require DOT. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,096 awards.

MassDOT’s state budget and an FTA versus FHWA split are unpublished. 2,096 awards is not a count of Commonwealth highway jobs. A second DOT slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Massachusetts’s 069 cell as a synonym for every DOT account.

Massachusetts as place of performance (MA)

Massachusetts on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Massachusetts residents. Awards can list MA while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, or Vermont remain on those ties even when the Northeast Corridor is the same story. Boston, Worcester, and the Berkshires share one MA stamp.

Massachusetts federal spending shows how agency 069 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $8,231,436,554.27 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Massachusetts by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $8,231,436,554.27 is that kind of sum for Department of Transportation inside Massachusetts coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,096-row DOT cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $8,231,436,554.27 as given. Treat 2,096 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite DOT in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $8,231,436,554.27 on 2,096 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name Department of Transportation and Massachusetts together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Transportation in Massachusetts has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Transportation, Massachusetts, $8,231,436,554.27, and 2,096 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without a Massachusetts filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

Questions

How much DOT spending is coded to Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov lists $8,231,436,554.27 in Department of Transportation obligations across 2,096 Massachusetts-coded awards. Agency 069 × MA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s complete federal ledger. Department of Transportation in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $3.93 million, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every DOT program in Massachusetts?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $8,231,436,554.27 is the combined obligation sum for agency 069 inside Massachusetts coding. Open Department of Transportation in Massachusetts to inspect award lines. 2,096 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $8,231,436,554.27 cash already paid in Massachusetts?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $8,231,436,554.27 as checks already cleared in Massachusetts confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,096 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DOT–Massachusetts table?

Department of Transportation in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $8,231,436,554.27. Place of performance is MA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.