Department of Transportation federal obligations in Nebraska

DOT awards tagged to Nebraska

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Nebraska as place-of-performance: 1,050 records summing to $2,051,660,705.70. A Department of Transportation award coded outside NE is out. An award in Nebraska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado. A Council Bluffs-coded award is IA, not this cell. FHWA, FTA, FAA, and other DOT modes are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 069.

One thousand fifty awards sits in a mid-count DOT band, close to the South Dakota DOT cell in this slice. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,050 as 1,050 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Nebraska is the both-keys table. Nebraska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an NE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

I-80 is ordinary speech, not a published share of $2,051,660,705.70. Unique recipients are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Nebraska did not “cause” $2,051,660,705.70 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × NE only.

Not I-80 folklore or a bridge census

$2,051,660,705.70 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 an NE place-of-performance tag. FHWA, FTA, FAA, and other DOT modes are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 069.

Do not treat 1,050 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Nebraska federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,051,660,705.70 and 1,050, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Nebraska statewide, not Omaha versus Lincoln

Place of performance NE is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado. A Council Bluffs-coded award is IA, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, and the rest of the counties share one NE stamp.

I-80 is ordinary speech, not a published share of $2,051,660,705.70. Unique recipients are unpublished. This packet does not split $2,051,660,705.70 by city, county, or named facility. 1,050 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Award stock versus contractor draws

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,051,660,705.70 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Nebraska confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Nebraska’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,050-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 $2,051,660,705.70.

Citing DOT in Nebraska

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $2,051,660,705.70 on 1,050 awards coded to Nebraska. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Nebraska if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Nebraska federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to NE. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the NE filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,051,660,705.70. A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Nebraska, $2,051,660,705.70, and 1,050. The compact headline $2.05 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.95 million is $2,051,660,705.70 divided by 1,050. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending.gov records $2,051,660,705.70 across 1,050 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Nebraska 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 Nebraska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,051,660,705.70.

Is $2,051,660,705.70 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,051,660,705.70 and 1,050 awards for agency 069 inside NE 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 1,050 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × NE. Combined with $2,051,660,705.70, the average is about $1.95 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,050 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 DOT–Nebraska table?

Department of Transportation in Nebraska is the overlay. Nebraska 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 $2,051,660,705.70. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.