Department of Transportation federal obligations in South Carolina

DOT awards tagged to South Carolina

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, South Carolina as place-of-performance: 1,627 records summing to $3,815,531,542.50. A Department of Transportation award coded outside SC is out. An award in South Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A Charlotte-coded award is NC even if a crew crosses the state line.

One thousand six hundred twenty-seven awards is a mid-count DOT file: more rows than a thin lab-style cell, fewer than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,627 as 1,627 unique lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities. The overlay Department of Transportation in South Carolina is the both-keys table. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an SC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

I-26 and Charleston port folklore is not a packet split. $3,815,531,542.50 stays statewide on 069 × SC. Correlation is not causation: South Carolina did not “cause” $3,815,531,542.50 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × SC only.

Not a bridge census or a port ranking

$3,815,531,542.50 does not measure lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an SC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,627 awards as a census of lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Carolina federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $3,815,531,542.50 and 1,627, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. North Carolina and Georgia DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

South Carolina, not a Carolinas corridor

Place of performance SC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A Charlotte-coded award is NC even if a crew crosses the state line. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

I-26 and Charleston port folklore is not a packet split. $3,815,531,542.50 stays statewide on 069 × SC. This packet does not split $3,815,531,542.50 by city, county, or named facility. 1,627 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Formula timing versus outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,815,531,542.50 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in South Carolina confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

South Carolina’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,627-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 $3,815,531,542.50.

Citing DOT in South Carolina

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $3,815,531,542.50 on 1,627 awards coded to South Carolina. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities.

Prefer Department of Transportation in South Carolina if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. South Carolina federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to SC. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the SC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,815,531,542.50.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, South Carolina, $3,815,531,542.50, and 1,627. The compact headline $3.82 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.35 million is $3,815,531,542.50 divided by 1,627. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $3,815,531,542.50 across 1,627 awards with awarding agency 069 and a South Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities. Department of Transportation in South Carolina is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,815,531,542.50.

Is $3,815,531,542.50 a measure of lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities?

No. The packet publishes $3,815,531,542.50 and 1,627 awards for agency 069 inside SC 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 1,627 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × SC. Combined with $3,815,531,542.50, the average is about $2.35 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,627 is not unique lane-miles, port throughput, or traffic fatalities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in South Carolina is the overlay. South Carolina 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 $3,815,531,542.50. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.