Department of Transportation federal obligations in North Dakota

DOT awards tagged to North Dakota

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, North Dakota as place-of-performance: 1,469 records summing to $1,900,135,360.77. A Department of Transportation award coded outside ND is out. An award in North Dakota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. North Dakota (ND) excludes South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Canada-bound tags that never carry ND. A Fargo-Moorhead Minnesota code is MN.

One thousand four hundred sixty-nine awards is a moderate DOT book: not a handful of mega-projects, not a farm-program flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,469 as 1,469 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in North Dakota is the both-keys table. North Dakota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an ND filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Bismarck, Fargo, and the oil patch share one ND stamp. FHWA, FAA, and FTA offices can roll up under 069; this page does not split them. Correlation is not causation: North Dakota did not cause $1,900,135,360.77 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × ND only.

Not Bakken freight or an Interstate census

$1,900,135,360.77 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 ND place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,469 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If North Dakota federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $1,900,135,360.77 and 1,469, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

North Dakota, not a two-Dakota rollup

Place of performance ND is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. North Dakota (ND) excludes South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Canada-bound tags that never carry ND. A Fargo-Moorhead Minnesota code is MN. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Bismarck, Fargo, and the oil patch share one ND stamp. FHWA, FAA, and FTA offices can roll up under 069; this page does not split them. This packet does not split $1,900,135,360.77 by city, county, or named facility. 1,469 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. $1,900,135,360.77 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in North Dakota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

North Dakota’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,469-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 $1,900,135,360.77.

Citing DOT in North Dakota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $1,900,135,360.77 on 1,469 awards coded to North Dakota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in North Dakota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. North Dakota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to ND. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the ND filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,900,135,360.77.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, North Dakota, $1,900,135,360.77, and 1,469. The compact headline $1.90 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.29 million is $1,900,135,360.77 divided by 1,469. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in North Dakota?

USAspending.gov records $1,900,135,360.77 across 1,469 awards with awarding agency 069 and a North Dakota 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 North Dakota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,900,135,360.77.

Is $1,900,135,360.77 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $1,900,135,360.77 and 1,469 awards for agency 069 inside ND 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 1,469 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × ND. Combined with $1,900,135,360.77, the average is about $1.29 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,469 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–North Dakota table?

Department of Transportation in North Dakota is the overlay. North Dakota 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 $1,900,135,360.77. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is ND.