Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Massachusetts

EPA and Massachusetts as a coding pair

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Environmental Protection Agency (code 068) and place-of-performance Massachusetts. The extract sums to $1,586,070,716.18 on 865 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Environmental Protection Agency spending caused Massachusetts outcomes, or that Massachusetts caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a Massachusetts environmental-quality score or a harbor-cleanup ranking. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a state environmental agency, a Region 1 office, or a cleanup contractor. Work tagged to Massachusetts can involve parties elsewhere, and Massachusetts work can be coded to another state.

EPA ECHO dashboards, harbor water-quality assessments, and Superfund NPL lists are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,586,070,716.18 leaves the USAspending award file. The 865 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Eight hundred sixty-five awards under $1.59 billion

Eight hundred sixty-five awards under a $1.59 billion book is a midsize tape. Dividing $1,586,070,716.18 by 865 awards yields an implied mean near $1,833,608. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 865 and $1,586,070,716.18. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $1,833,608 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,586,070,716.18 and 865. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts statewide versus EPA nationwide

Massachusetts’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. $1,586,070,716.18 is only the Environmental Protection Agency cell inside Massachusetts. The Environmental Protection Agency national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Massachusetts answer a different question. They are not the source of the 865 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Region 1 administrative coding can concentrate rows in Massachusetts even when work spans New England. This packet does not reallocate those flows. Do not rank Massachusetts as dirtier or cleaner because $1,586,070,716.18 appears next to the state code. Award-file dollars are not pollution counts.

Cleanup obligations are still not cash

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,586,070,716.18 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Massachusetts will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 068 × Massachusetts, $1,586,070,716.18, 865 awards, obligations only.

Overlay and parent hubs

The Massachusetts × Environmental Protection Agency overlay holds the structured rows behind 865 awards and $1,586,070,716.18. The Massachusetts state page and the Environmental Protection Agency agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert $1,586,070,716.18 into outlays.

How to cite EPA in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Environmental Protection Agency (awarding agency 068) obligated $1,586,070,716.18 on 865 awards coded to Massachusetts. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Massachusetts and call the figure a national EPA total. Do not drop Environmental Protection Agency and call it Massachusetts’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $1,833,608 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Massachusetts subcontractors. Do not convert the Massachusetts EPA cell into a New England quality ranking.

Questions

How much has EPA obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $1,586,070,716.18 in Environmental Protection Agency obligations coded to Massachusetts across 865 awards. Awarding-agency 068 and Massachusetts place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure New England pollution?

No. $1,586,070,716.18 and 865 awards are award-file coding totals. They are not emissions, water-quality scores, or a Superfund site count. Correlation between EPA awards and a state code is not causation.

What is the average EPA award in Massachusetts?

The implied mean is about $1,833,608 from $1,586,070,716.18 divided by 865 awards. Program and region splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical cleanup contract.

Are EPA obligations in Massachusetts the same as outlays?

No. $1,586,070,716.18 is an obligation sum on 865 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Massachusetts × EPA cell into cash.