Department of Transportation obligations in Montana 1st District (MT-01)

Department of Transportation and Montana 1st District (MT-01) as a USAspending pair

Awarding agency 069 and congressional district MT-01 meet here. $841,600,567.61 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 Montana 1st District (MT-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOT operating administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. 616 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership total, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $841,600,567.61 by 616 yields about $1,366,234.69 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 616 awards is a mid-size DOT file. The implied mean is a ratio, not a posted per-mile figure — no mileage denominator is in the packet. Do not treat MT-01’s 069 cell as a synonym for every Transportation account nationwide. Open Montana 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Transportation for agency 069 without the MT-01 filter, Montana federal spending for every awarding agency in the Montana extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $841,600,567.61.

How USAspending labels Department of Transportation

USAspending labels awarding agency 069 as Department of Transportation. That code produced $841,600,567.61 when crossed with Montana 1st District (MT-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 069 hub does not require MT-01 geography. The district hub does not require Transportation. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 616 awards. The packet does not split DOT operating administrations or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Montana 1st District (MT-01) did not “cause” $841,600,567.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 069 × MT-01 only. It is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership total, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Geography is MT-01, not a facility map

Montana 1st District (MT-01) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MT-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Montana districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 069. Montana 1st District (MT-01) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Montana. Other Montana districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 069. Montana 1st District (MT-01) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Montana. Other Montana districts, including an at-large-era map if cited elsewhere, are not this join.

Montana federal spending shows how agency 069 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $841,600,567.61 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Montana 1st District (MT-01) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Transportation. The district-wide obligation total published here is $8,507,785,008.14; $841,600,567.61 is the Transportation slice of that denominator.

Commitment totals versus cash paid

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $841,600,567.61 is that kind of sum for Department of Transportation inside MT-01 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. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $841,600,567.61 as given.

Keeping both sides of the 069 × MT-01 pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $841,600,567.61 on 616 awards coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01). Name Department of Transportation and Montana 1st District (MT-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Montana 1st District or Department of Transportation has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a highway-mile inventory, a transit-ridership total, or a named-contractor file. 9.9% of $8,507,785,008.14 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Share, mean, and what they are not

616 awards is a mid-size DOT file. The implied mean is a ratio, not a posted per-mile figure — no mileage denominator is in the packet. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $1,366,234.69) and the district share (9.9% of $8,507,785,008.14) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Montana 1st District and Department of Transportation if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Montana 1st District (MT-01) as more Transportation-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 069 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 069 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $841,600,567.61 and 616 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much Transportation spending is coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01)?

USAspending.gov lists $841,600,567.61 in Transportation (agency 069) obligations across 616 awards coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Montana’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 9.9% of the district’s published total ($8,507,785,008.14). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $841,600,567.61 include every Transportation program in MT-01?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOT operating administrations or contract versus assistance instruments. $841,600,567.61 is the combined obligation sum for agency 069 inside MT-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 616 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $841,600,567.61 cash already paid in Montana 1st District (MT-01)?

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 $841,600,567.61 as checks already cleared in Montana 1st District (MT-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 616 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

How does this Transportation cell relate to Montana statewide spending?

Montana federal spending is the Montana statewide extract across awarding agencies. $841,600,567.61 is the Department of Transportation amount inside Montana 1st District (MT-01) only, not the statewide Transportation total. Adding Montana federal spending to $841,600,567.61 double-counts. Agency 069 nationwide lives on Department of Transportation. This join is 069 × MT-01.