Department of Transportation federal obligations in West Virginia

A thicker DOT file on West Virginia

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, West Virginia as place-of-performance: 3,809 records summing to $3,780,756,238.20. A Department of Transportation award coded outside WV is out. An award in West Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. West Virginia (WV) excludes Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. A Pittsburgh-coded award is PA, not this cell.

Three thousand eight hundred nine awards sits in the thicker DOT band. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,809 as 3,809 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in West Virginia is the both-keys table. West Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a WV filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

The Turnpike and I-79 are unpublished. Do not treat 3,809 as a mountain-versus-river project list. Correlation is not causation: West Virginia did not “cause” $3,780,756,238.20 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × WV only.

Not a coal-haul or mountain-grade score

$3,780,756,238.20 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 a WV place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,809 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If West Virginia federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $3,780,756,238.20 and 3,809, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

West Virginia, not an Appalachian rollup

Place of performance WV is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. West Virginia (WV) excludes Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. A Pittsburgh-coded award is PA, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

The Turnpike and I-79 are unpublished. Do not treat 3,809 as a mountain-versus-river project list. This packet does not split $3,780,756,238.20 by city, county, or named facility. 3,809 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. $3,780,756,238.20 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in West Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

West Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 3,809-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 $3,780,756,238.20.

Citing DOT in West Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $3,780,756,238.20 on 3,809 awards coded to West Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in West Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. West Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WV. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the WV filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,780,756,238.20.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, West Virginia, $3,780,756,238.20, and 3,809. The compact headline $3.78 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $992,585 is $3,780,756,238.20 divided by 3,809. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $3,780,756,238.20 across 3,809 awards with awarding agency 069 and a West Virginia 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 West Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,780,756,238.20.

Is $3,780,756,238.20 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $3,780,756,238.20 and 3,809 awards for agency 069 inside WV 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 3,809 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × WV. Combined with $3,780,756,238.20, the average is about $992,585. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,809 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 table?

Department of Transportation in West Virginia is the overlay. West Virginia 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 $3,780,756,238.20. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.