Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Maryland

A small row count under a large EPA total

Four hundred thirty-two awards totaling $10,174,297,275.39 is a concentrated join. Many assistance-style agency–state cells run to tens of thousands of rows; this one does not. The mean near $23.55 million follows from that scarcity of rows, not from a published list of Superfund sites or water-infrastructure grants. Those program names are not in the facts.

The join is still only agency 068 plus Maryland place of performance. It is not an air-quality ranking, not a Chesapeake Bay scorecard, and not a count of regulated facilities.

Four hundred thirty-two awards is a small enough set that journalists often want the largest rows named. This packet does not name them. $10,174,297,275.39 remains an undifferentiated obligation total. Water, waste, air, and research instruments — if all are present — share the same cell. No media-friendly project list belongs here.

Awarding agency 068

The Environmental Protection Agency hub reports agency 068 nationwide. Maryland’s $10,174,297,275.39 is the MD geography slice. Awards coded to neighboring states stay off this page even if a watershed crosses the line.

Overlay /states/md/agencies/068/ is the filtered table for 432 awards. This copy does not add facility names. Inventing a laboratory or regional-office share would go beyond the packet.

Maryland as place of performance

MD can include the capital-adjacent counties, Baltimore, and the rest of the state in one $10,174,297,275.39 total. No county or watershed split is provided. The Maryland federal spending hub is the parent geography for all awarding agencies.

Place of performance is a USAspending tag. Work that physically occurs in Maryland but is coded to another state will not appear here; work coded to Maryland will, even if some activity happens elsewhere.

Maryland’s parent spending hub places EPA beside Commerce and other agencies. Those other cells can have thousands of awards; this one has 432. Different shapes are not a ranking of which department “does more” for Maryland. They are different filters. $10,174,297,275.39 is the EPA 068 filter only.

Obligations versus environmental outcomes

$10,174,297,275.39 is obligations, not outlays and not pounds of pollution reduced. Outcome metrics live in other systems. This page has dollars and a count of 432 awards.

No fiscal year is in the facts. The total is not labeled as a single grant cycle. Mean obligation of about $23.55 million is a quotient, not a typical EPA assistance agreement.

Maryland EPA’s 432 awards and $10,174,297,275.39 are concentrated enough that the mean near $23.55 million will be quoted as if it were a typical grant. It is not. A few large records can dominate a 432-row table. Those records are unnamed here. Chesapeake-specific dollars are not a published share. The pair is agency 068 and MD, not an environmental score.

What the pair refuses to claim

A large EPA total in Maryland does not mean the state’s environment is better or worse than another state’s. Correlation between a headquarters-adjacent geography and large awards is a coding pattern, not a verdict. Campaign contributions are not part of this table.

See Environmental Protection Agency in Maryland, Maryland federal spending, Environmental Protection Agency, and All spending ties.

Four hundred thirty-two EPA awards under $10,174,297,275.39 is a thin table. Thin tables are sensitive to a few large rows. Without a top-award list, this page cannot name those rows. Watersheds, Superfund sites, and laboratory campuses are not dollar shares in the facts.

Maryland EPA overlay and its limits

Environmental Protection Agency in Maryland is the overlay for agency 068 and state MD. Maryland federal spending is the parent. Environmental Protection Agency is the national 068 hub. All spending ties lists other pairs. Commerce, Treasury, and SBA Maryland pages are different codes; they are not this $10,174,297,275.39 cell.

A mean near $23.55 million follows from dividing a ten-billion-dollar sum by 432 records. That mean is not a typical revolving-fund grant. It is not pounds of pollution reduced. Place of performance MD does not map every cleanup. Awards coded to neighboring states stay off the page even when a basin crosses a line. Obligations are not outlays. The pair is not a Chesapeake scorecard and not a city ranking.

Questions

How much has the EPA obligated in Maryland?

USAspending records $10,174,297,275.39 in agency 068 obligations with Maryland place of performance, across 432 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not outlays and not an environmental score.

Why are there only 432 EPA awards in Maryland?

The aggregate counts 432 award records for this pair. A small count under $10,174,297,275.39 produces a high mean of about $23.55 million. The facts do not list the instruments behind those rows.

Does this include Chesapeake Bay funding?

The packet does not split programs or waterbodies. $10,174,297,275.39 is the full EPA (068) and Maryland obligation total in the aggregate.

Is this money already spent on cleanup?

Obligations are commitments. Outlays can differ. This page reports $10,174,297,275.39 in obligations and 432 awards only.