Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Louisiana

Reading the EPA–LA pair

USAspending.gov stores awarding agency and place of performance on the same award rows. Intersecting 068 with LA yields $681,679,514.75 in obligations. The pair is not a statement that Louisiana caused Environmental Protection Agency to spend, and it is not a census of watersheds.

Behind $681,679,514.75 sit 136 award actions (a modest award list). That denominator is why the mean of about $5,012,349.37 can look large or small depending on how many small rows share the cell. The packet does not publish a median or a unique-recipient count.

Open Environmental Protection Agency in Louisiana for the filtered table, Louisiana federal spending for the next hub, Environmental Protection Agency for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

$681,679,514.75 across 136 actions

136 rows and $681,679,514.75 produce a mean of about $5,012,349.37. That ratio is not a typical cleanup or water-infrastructure grant and not a payment to a named vendor. Repeat the two packet facts when you reuse the mean; do not round them into a new official statistic.

Do not infer a typical cleanup or water-infrastructure grant from the mean. The overlay can show mixed instruments; this page only has the two published numbers and the four internal links.

Statewide Louisiana, not New Orleans from Baton Rouge or Shreveport

Two one-sided pages exist so this two-sided page can stay small. Environmental Protection Agency in Louisiana is the live overlay. 136 awards and $681,679,514.75 belong only to the pair, not to a blended statewide rollup hidden under this slug.

Mailing address and place of performance can differ. An award that lists Louisiana geography enters this total; an award that lists Texas or Mississippi does not, even if the vendor answers mail in New Orleans. Keep 136 attached to the statewide tag.

Source note on obligations

Readers sometimes treat obligation totals as checks cleared. The packet does not support that reading. $681,679,514.75 is the commitment sum; outlays are unnamed here.

The source note repeats the same limit: obligations are not outlays. 136 is how many award rows carry both tags, not how many payments left the Treasury.

Superfund, drinking-water, and air-quality folklore is not a finding

Do not rank Louisiana as a winner or loser on EPA dollars from this page alone. The packet has no comparison table. All spending ties lists other pairs without turning this cell into a scoreboard.

A searcher who arrived from a political query still gets an awarding-agency × state obligation total. 136 awards and $681,679,514.75 stay in that unit. No donor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Internal links that keep the same unit

Reuse $681,679,514.75 only with the filters that created it. Agency 068 without Louisiana, or Louisiana without agency 068, is a different number. About $5,012,349.37 per award stays a derived ratio of the same two facts.

Keep Environmental Protection Agency and Louisiana in the same sentence whenever you quote $681,679,514.75. Louisiana federal spending will look larger because it mixes agencies. Environmental Protection Agency will look larger because it mixes states. Environmental Protection Agency in Louisiana is the pair. All spending ties lists other pairs. Correlation is not causation. Agency 068 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national EPA budget on this page. Louisiana's $681,679,514.75 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from Environmental Protection Agency and call the difference 'Louisiana versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. Environmental Protection Agency is the awarding-agency label stored on the Louisiana overlay; the numeric key is 068. Readers who only remember the short name EPA still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $681,679,514.75. The 136 figure is not a count of unique utilities or cleanup contractors and is not a count of distinct environmental awards. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $5,012,349.37 is not a typical cleanup or water-infrastructure grant.

Questions

What does USAspending show for EPA in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $681,679,514.75 in obligations for awarding agency 068 (Environmental Protection Agency) with Louisiana place of performance, covering 136 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide budget.

Can I treat the mean as a typical EPA award?

The extract lists 136 award actions totaling $681,679,514.75. Average obligation per award is about $5,012,349.37, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical cleanup or water-infrastructure grant. Unique utilities or cleanup contractors are not published here.

Is place of performance the same as a New Orleans mailing address?

No. $681,679,514.75 and 136 awards are statewide Louisiana place of performance. This packet does not split New Orleans from Baton Rouge or Shreveport. Awards coded to Texas or Mississippi are outside this cell even if mail is handled in New Orleans.

Where should I go next from this EPA join?

Environmental Protection Agency in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Environmental Protection Agency shows agency 068 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.