Disaster Grants - Public Assistance in Louisiana 6th District (LA-06)
Place-of-performance LA-06 crossed with Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) records $12,620,567,479.49 in USAspending.gov obligations on 21 awards. Twenty-one Public Assistance awards equal about half of LA-06's district obligation total — a disaster-assistance slice, not a parish-level reconstruction ledger. That pair is Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) and Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) — not Louisiana's entire federal inflow, not Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 50.4% of this district's published obligation total ($25,032,831,519.57). Implied average obligation is about $600,979,403.79 ($12,620,567,479.49 ÷ 21). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Disaster PA in Louisiana 6th District (LA-06): $12,620,567,479.49 across 21 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $600,979,403.79 per record; district share 50.4% of $25,032,831,519.57.
- CFDA 97.036 × LA-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Louisiana 6th District and CFDA 97.036 if live tables moved.
- Louisiana federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $12,620,567,479.49.
Why CFDA 97.036 and LA-06 share a page
CFDA 97.036 and congressional district LA-06 meet here. $12,620,567,479.49 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters)'s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Louisiana 6th District (LA-06), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split emergency work from permanent work and does not publish a declaration list. 21 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a disaster chronology, a debris ledger, or a named-applicant roster.
Dividing $12,620,567,479.49 by 21 yields about $600,979,403.79 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical project worksheet or a posted per-applicant figure. Twenty-one awards against a twelve-billion-dollar Disaster PA cell is a compact file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients. Do not treat LA-06's 97.036 cell as a synonym for every Disaster PA account nationwide. Quote Louisiana 6th District, CFDA 97.036, Louisiana federal spending, and All spending ties as parents, not as addends to $12,620,567,479.49.
The Public Assistance catalog line
USAspending labels CFDA 97.036 as Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters). That catalog number produced $12,620,567,479.49 when crossed with Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) place of performance. The program-wide 97.036 hub does not require LA-06 geography. The district hub does not require Disaster PA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 21 awards. The packet does not split emergency work from permanent work and does not publish a declaration list.
Correlation is not causation: Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) did not cause $12,620,567,479.49 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 97.036 × LA-06 only. It is not a disaster chronology, a debris ledger, or a named-applicant roster. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate. Other CFDA 97.036 ties in this harvest (NY-20, CA-06, TX-27, FL-02, NJ-03) are different district keys. Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) is the geography on this page only.
Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) as a geography tag
Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list LA-06 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Louisiana districts belong on those ties even when the CFDA is also 97.036. Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Louisiana. Other Louisiana districts are separate joins even when they reuse CFDA 97.036.
Louisiana federal spending shows how CFDA 97.036 sits beside other programs in the same state extract. $12,620,567,479.49 is one district-program column, not the state table. This packet does not split Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different CFDA stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters). The district-wide obligation total published here is $25,032,831,519.57; $12,620,567,479.49 is the Disaster PA slice of that denominator.
What the dollar figure is allowed to mean
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $12,620,567,479.49 is that kind of sum for Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) inside LA-06 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same CFDA rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $12,620,567,479.49 as given.
Louisiana's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 21-row Disaster PA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 21 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 21 is not a count of declarations, applicants, or project worksheets. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($600,979,403.79) is a concentration statistic, not a typical project worksheet or a posted per-applicant figure.
Parents of this tie: district, program, state
Cite USAspending.gov: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) obligated $12,620,567,479.49 on 21 awards coded to Louisiana 6th District (LA-06). Name Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) and Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) together. Keep the obligation word. If Louisiana 6th District or CFDA 97.036 has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a disaster chronology, a debris ledger, or a named-applicant roster. 50.4% of $25,032,831,519.57 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score. Keep Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters), Louisiana 6th District (LA-06), $12,620,567,479.49, and 21 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add parent hubs into this cell.
Limits of the LA-06 × 97.036 snapshot
Twenty-one awards against a twelve-billion-dollar Disaster PA cell is a compact file. A large row count makes a project split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $600,979,403.79) and the district share (50.4% of $25,032,831,519.57) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Louisiana 6th District and CFDA 97.036 if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much Disaster PA spending is coded to Louisiana 6th District (LA-06)?
- USAspending.gov lists $12,620,567,479.49 in Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) obligations across 21 awards with place of performance in Louisiana 6th District (LA-06). CFDA 97.036 × LA-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Louisiana's complete federal ledger. The cell is 50.4% of the district's published total ($25,032,831,519.57). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $600,979,403.79, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $12,620,567,479.49 include every Disaster PA project in LA-06?
- The packet publishes one CFDA rollup. The packet does not split emergency work from permanent work and does not publish a declaration list. $12,620,567,479.49 is the combined obligation sum for CFDA 97.036 inside LA-06 coding. This page will not invent a project pie or name contractors. Open CFDA 97.036 and Louisiana 6th District to inspect parent tables. 21 remains an action count, not a count of declarations, applicants, or project worksheets.
- Is $12,620,567,479.49 cash already paid in Louisiana 6th District (LA-06)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $12,620,567,479.49 as checks already cleared in Louisiana 6th District (LA-06) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 21 awards. Prefer the live district and program hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $600,979,403.79 not a typical award?
- The average is $12,620,567,479.49 divided by 21 awards, about $600,979,403.79. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic, not a typical project worksheet or a posted per-applicant figure.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to CFDA program. Obligations are not outlays.