Disaster Public Assistance in Virginia 4th District (VA-04)
Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) and Virginia 4th District (VA-04) meet at $1,283,395,435.16 in USAspending.gov obligations across 7 awards. Seven awards sit on a one-point-three-billion-dollar cell — a short PA file, not a named-storm inventory and not a ranking of Virginia districts on damage. The pair is Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) and Virginia 4th District (VA-04) — not Virginia's entire federal inflow, not 97.036 nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 9.8% of this district's published obligation total ($13,111,280,853.32). Implied average obligation is about $183,342,205.02 ($1,283,395,435.16 ÷ 7). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Disaster Public Assistance in Virginia 4th District (VA-04): $1,283,395,435.16 across 7 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $183,342,205.02 per record; district share 9.8% of $13,111,280,853.32.
- CFDA 97.036 × VA-04 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Virginia 4th District and CFDA 97.036 if live tables moved.
- Virginia federal spending and All spending ties are a parent and an index, not amounts to add into $1,283,395,435.16.
Seven 97.036 PA awards tagged to Virginia 4th District (VA-04)
CFDA 97.036 and congressional district VA-04 meet here. $1,283,395,435.16 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 Virginia 4th District (VA-04), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split emergency work from permanent work from other 97.036 PA categories, and it does not name declarations. 7 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not named storms, applicant maps, or a ranking of Virginia districts as harder hit.
This page reports Disaster Public Assistance awards USAspending tagged to this district as place of performance. The headline $1,283,395,435.16 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $13,111,280,853.32; the 9.8% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of Virginia districts as winners or losers. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Obligations are not outlays. Virginia 5th District hosts SSA Retirement (CFDA 96.002) in this harvest. That is a different program. GA-05, KY-01, SC-06, HI-01, and MO-03 host other 97.036 cells.
CFDA 97.036 without a named-declaration table
CFDA 97.036 is Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters). The program tag does not name events or applicants. This packet lists none of them. That catalog produced $1,283,395,435.16 when crossed with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) place of performance. The program-wide 97.036 hub does not require VA-04 geography. The district hub does not require Disaster Public Assistance. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 7 awards. The packet does not split emergency work from permanent work from other 97.036 PA categories, and it does not name declarations.
Correlation is not causation: Virginia 4th District (VA-04) did not cause $1,283,395,435.16 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 97.036 × VA-04 only. This cell is not named storms, applicant maps, or a ranking of Virginia districts as harder hit. 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. Seven records against this dollar book is a concentrated PA file. Mean obligation is a ratio, not a published incident budget.
Virginia 4th District (VA-04) as disaster-PA geography
Virginia 4th District (VA-04) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Virginia. Awards tagged to other Virginia districts belong on those ties even when the CFDA is also 97.036. Virginia 4th District (VA-04) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list VA-04 while later work occurs elsewhere. Virginia federal spending (/states/va/) shows how CFDA 97.036 sits beside other program codes in the same state extract. $1,283,395,435.16 is one district-program column, not the state table. This packet does not split Virginia 4th District (VA-04) by county, city, or census tract.
The district-wide obligation total published here is $13,111,280,853.32; $1,283,395,435.16 is the Disaster Public Assistance slice of that denominator. Open Virginia 4th District (/districts/VA-04/) for the stored district table and CFDA 97.036 (/programs/97.036/) for the national program shelf. This page will not invent disaster or applicant names. Seven awards are not seven southside Virginia events.
VA-04 PA dollars are obligations, not rebuilt facilities
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $1,283,395,435.16 is that kind of sum for Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) inside VA-04 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Treating $1,283,395,435.16 as debris already removed or facilities already rebuilt confuses those terms. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $1,283,395,435.16 as given.
Virginia's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 7-row Disaster Public Assistance cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 7 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 7 is not a census of declared disasters, applicants, or named projects. 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 ($183,342,205.02) is a concentration statistic, not a typical VA-04 Disaster Public Assistance payment.
Keeping VA-05 SSA Retirement off this 97.036 cell
Cite USAspending.gov: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) obligated $1,283,395,435.16 on 7 awards coded to Virginia 4th District (VA-04). Name Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) and Virginia 4th District (VA-04) together. Keep the obligation word. Start at /districts/VA-04/ for the district overlay, /programs/97.036/ for the program rollup, /states/va/ for Virginia statewide spending, and /ties/ for other pairs. If Virginia 4th District or CFDA 97.036 has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents to this cell.
Keep Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters), Virginia 4th District (VA-04), $1,283,395,435.16, and 7 awards together. Confusing this join with a statewide disaster-PA total or the VA-05 96.002 overlay would be a different overlay. Sharing a district with Disaster Public Assistance does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. 9.8% of $13,111,280,853.32 is.
Questions
- How much Disaster Public Assistance spending is coded to Virginia 4th District (VA-04)?
- USAspending.gov lists $1,283,395,435.16 in Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) obligations across 7 awards with place of performance in Virginia 4th District (VA-04). CFDA 97.036 × VA-04 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Virginia's complete federal ledger. The cell is 9.8% of the district's published total ($13,111,280,853.32). Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Do 7 awards mean 7 declared disasters in VA-04?
- No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of declared disasters, applicants, or named projects. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $183,342,205.02 is a quotient, not a typical published award. Open CFDA 97.036 and Virginia 4th District to inspect parents.
- Is this Virginia's entire CFDA 97.036 obligation book?
- No. The join is CFDA 97.036 crossed with VA-04 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $13,111,280,853.32. Related programs and other districts are not inside $1,283,395,435.16 unless they also carry both keys. Confusing this join with a statewide disaster-PA total or the VA-05 96.002 overlay would be a different overlay.
- Do FEC donations fund these Disaster PA awards in VA-04?
- No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing Virginia geography does not mean donations funded $1,283,395,435.16 in Virginia 4th District (VA-04). This page reports USAspending.gov CFDA 97.036 crossed with place of performance VA-04. It does not report campaign finance.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to CFDA program. Obligations are not outlays.