Department of Transportation obligations in New Jersey 2nd District (NJ-02)

DOT × NJ-02 is a formula-and-project join, not a Shore lane-mile census

This page is a join: Department of Transportation (agency 069) as awarding agency, and New Jersey 2nd District (NJ-02) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,537,630,054.12 on 998 awards. The join is awarding-agency 069 crossed with an NJ-02 location field, not New Jersey’s entire transportation budget and not a named-project or bridge roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 998 awards equal 998 miles or 998 unique contractors.

Interior shore programs, Army Corps, or DOT-coded awards in NJ-01 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 069 and NJ-02. Mixing those books into $1,537,630,054.12 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and lane miles is not causation. Mile-post and project-name tables are not in the packet. Place of performance as NJ-02 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,537,630,054.12 in a district treasury. Atlantic City-versus-Vineland folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

998 awards behind $1.54 billion

Mean obligation is about $1,540,711.48 if $1,537,630,054.12 were divided evenly across 998 lines. That ratio is not a published cost per mile and not a typical letting size. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of miles, bridges, or unique vendors. Nine hundred ninety-eight awards is a thick DOT assistance-and-contract file; it is still a row count.

Formula apportionments and project rows can both appear among the 998 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open New Jersey 2nd District for the stored district table. Do not convert 998 into a map of New Jersey 2nd District highway projects. The $1,537,630,054.12 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a lane-mile census.

New Jersey 2nd District, not an Atlantic-to-Delaware highway rollup

New Jersey 2nd District (NJ-02) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to NJ-01, NJ-03, or another New Jersey district are out even if the parkway name sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $6,937,931,545.03 across every awarding agency; $1,537,630,054.12 is the Department of Transportation slice — about 22.2% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide DOT figure on New Jersey federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank NJ-02 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other New Jersey district cells are other joins. New Jersey federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Transportation dollars to $1,537,630,054.12 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 069 obligations are not asphalt already laid

DOT awards often obligate as FHWA, FTA, and FAA assistance rows and draw as states and airports spend. The $1,537,630,054.12 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of miles paved and not a Treasury outlay total. A FHWA project dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 069, NJ-02 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Transportation is the nationwide agency book without a NJ-02 filter. This extract does not split highway from transit, and it does not split aviation from rail. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 998 awards, agency 069, and New Jersey 2nd District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the NJ-02 DOT table omits

The extract has no project names, mileposts, or contractor names. Facts remain $1,537,630,054.12, 998 awards, agency 069, Department of Transportation, New Jersey 2nd District (NJ-02), and district parent $6,937,931,545.03. Letting names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 998-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the DOT × NJ-02 pair lives

Start with New Jersey 2nd District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Transportation cell. Department of Transportation is the nationwide agency listing. New Jersey federal spending gives New Jersey context without a NJ-02 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 998 awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a lane-mile census. Keep both Department of Transportation and New Jersey 2nd District (NJ-02) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,537,630,054.12 as cash already paid or as New Jersey’s entire transportation appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much DOT spending is obligated in New Jersey 2nd District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,537,630,054.12 in Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligations with New Jersey 2nd District (NJ-02) as place of performance, across 998 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $6,937,931,545.03 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 069.

Do 998 awards mean 998 highway projects in NJ-02?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Transportation actions tagged to NJ-02. It is not a project, mile, or vendor census. Mean obligation of about $1,540,711.48 is a quotient of $1,537,630,054.12 and 998, not a cost per mile.

Does this DOT cell include Army Corps shore work in NJ-02?

No. This page is awarding agency 069 only. Corps lines are other joins. $1,537,630,054.12 is about 22.2% of the New Jersey 2nd District parent $6,937,931,545.03 by arithmetic. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.

Is the NJ-02 DOT total already paid as construction?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,537,630,054.12 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Invoice draws and remaining balances are not published here.