Department of Transportation federal obligations in South Dakota

DOT awards tagged to South Dakota

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, South Dakota as place-of-performance: 1,120 records summing to $2,080,004,341.50. A Department of Transportation award coded outside SD is out. An award in South Dakota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming. A Sioux City, Iowa-coded award is IA, not this cell. FHWA, FTA, FAA, and other DOT modes are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 069.

One thousand one hundred twenty awards sits in a mid-count DOT band, close to the Nebraska DOT cell in this slice. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,120 as 1,120 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in South Dakota is the both-keys table. South Dakota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an SD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

I-90 and I-29 are ordinary speech, not published shares of $2,080,004,341.50. Unique recipients are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: South Dakota did not “cause” $2,080,004,341.50 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × SD only.

Not I-90 folklore or a bridge census

$2,080,004,341.50 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 SD place-of-performance tag. FHWA, FTA, FAA, and other DOT modes are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 069.

Do not treat 1,120 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Dakota federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,080,004,341.50 and 1,120, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

South Dakota statewide, not Sioux Falls versus the west

Place of performance SD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming. A Sioux City, Iowa-coded award is IA, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen, and the rest of the counties share one SD stamp.

I-90 and I-29 are ordinary speech, not published shares of $2,080,004,341.50. Unique recipients are unpublished. This packet does not split $2,080,004,341.50 by city, county, or named facility. 1,120 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. $2,080,004,341.50 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in South Dakota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

South Dakota’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,120-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 $2,080,004,341.50.

Citing DOT in South Dakota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $2,080,004,341.50 on 1,120 awards coded to South Dakota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in South Dakota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. South Dakota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to SD. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the SD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,080,004,341.50. A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, South Dakota, $2,080,004,341.50, and 1,120. The compact headline $2.08 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.86 million is $2,080,004,341.50 divided by 1,120. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $2,080,004,341.50 across 1,120 awards with awarding agency 069 and a South 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 South Dakota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,080,004,341.50.

Is $2,080,004,341.50 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,080,004,341.50 and 1,120 awards for agency 069 inside SD 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 1,120 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × SD. Combined with $2,080,004,341.50, the average is about $1.86 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,120 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–South Dakota table?

Department of Transportation in South Dakota is the overlay. South 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 $2,080,004,341.50. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.