Department of Transportation federal obligations in Utah
The Department of Transportation shows $3,067,048,714.72 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Utah, across 1,618 awards. Awarding-agency 069 and Utah (UT) are the pair. One thousand six hundred eighteen awards is a mid-count DOT file: more rows than a thin lab-style cell, fewer than a USDA assistance flood. The implied mean is about $1.90 million per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- DOT in Utah: $3,067,048,714.72 across 1,618 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $1.90 million per record — a packet quotient, not a typical project.
- Agency 069 × UT is not a measure of lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
DOT awards tagged to Utah
Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Utah as place-of-performance: 1,618 records summing to $3,067,048,714.72. A Department of Transportation award coded outside UT is out. An award in Utah from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Utah (UT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. A Las Vegas-coded award is Nevada.
One thousand six hundred eighteen 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 1,618 as 1,618 unique lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities. The overlay Department of Transportation in Utah is the both-keys table. Utah federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a UT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.
I-15 and TRAX folklore is not a packet split. $3,067,048,714.72 stays statewide on 069 × UT. Correlation is not causation: Utah did not “cause” $3,067,048,714.72 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × UT only.
Not a Wasatch Front highway ranking
$3,067,048,714.72 does not measure lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and a UT place-of-performance tag.
Do not treat 1,618 awards as a census of lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Utah federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $3,067,048,714.72 and 1,618, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Idaho, Colorado, and Nevada DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.
Utah, not an Intermountain corridor
Place of performance UT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Utah (UT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. A Las Vegas-coded award is Nevada. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.
I-15 and TRAX folklore is not a packet split. $3,067,048,714.72 stays statewide on 069 × UT. This packet does not split $3,067,048,714.72 by city, county, or named facility. 1,618 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.
Formula timing versus pavement cash
Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,067,048,714.72 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Utah confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.
Utah’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,618-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 $3,067,048,714.72.
Citing DOT in Utah
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $3,067,048,714.72 on 1,618 awards coded to Utah. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities.
Prefer Department of Transportation in Utah if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Utah federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to UT. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the UT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,067,048,714.72.
A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Utah, $3,067,048,714.72, and 1,618. The compact headline $3.07 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.90 million is $3,067,048,714.72 divided by 1,618. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.
Questions
- How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Utah?
- USAspending.gov records $3,067,048,714.72 across 1,618 awards with awarding agency 069 and an Utah tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities. Department of Transportation in Utah is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,067,048,714.72.
- Is $3,067,048,714.72 a measure of lane-miles, transit ridership, or traffic fatalities?
- No. The packet publishes $3,067,048,714.72 and 1,618 awards for agency 069 inside UT 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 1,618 awards?
- That is the award-record count for 069 × UT. Combined with $3,067,048,714.72, the average is about $1.90 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,618 is not unique lane-miles, transit ridership, 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 Utah is the overlay. Utah 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 $3,067,048,714.72. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.