Department of Transportation federal obligations in Wyoming

DOT awards tagged to Wyoming

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Wyoming as place-of-performance: 1,478 records summing to $2,345,596,239.97. A Department of Transportation award coded outside WY is out. An award in Wyoming from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. A Denver-coded award is CO, not this cell. FHWA, FTA, FAA, and other DOT modes are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 069.

One thousand four hundred seventy-eight awards sits in a mid-count DOT band. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,478 as 1,478 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Wyoming is the both-keys table. Wyoming federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a WY filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

I-80 and I-25 are ordinary speech, not published shares of $2,345,596,239.97. Unique recipients are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Wyoming did not “cause” $2,345,596,239.97 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × WY only.

Not I-80 folklore or a bridge census

$2,345,596,239.97 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 WY place-of-performance tag. FHWA, FTA, FAA, and other DOT modes are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 069.

Do not treat 1,478 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Wyoming federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,345,596,239.97 and 1,478, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Wyoming statewide, not a Cheyenne-versus-Casper split

Place of performance WY is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. A Denver-coded award is CO, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, and the rest of the counties share one WY stamp.

I-80 and I-25 are ordinary speech, not published shares of $2,345,596,239.97. Unique recipients are unpublished. This packet does not split $2,345,596,239.97 by city, county, or named facility. 1,478 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. $2,345,596,239.97 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Wyoming confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Wyoming’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,478-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 $2,345,596,239.97.

Citing DOT in Wyoming

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $2,345,596,239.97 on 1,478 awards coded to Wyoming. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Wyoming if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Wyoming federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WY. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the WY filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,345,596,239.97. A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Wyoming, $2,345,596,239.97, and 1,478. The compact headline $2.35 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.59 million is $2,345,596,239.97 divided by 1,478. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Wyoming?

USAspending.gov records $2,345,596,239.97 across 1,478 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Wyoming 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 Wyoming is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,345,596,239.97.

Is $2,345,596,239.97 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,345,596,239.97 and 1,478 awards for agency 069 inside WY 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 1,478 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × WY. Combined with $2,345,596,239.97, the average is about $1.59 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,478 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–Wyoming table?

Department of Transportation in Wyoming is the overlay. Wyoming 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 $2,345,596,239.97. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.