Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Michigan

EPA awards tagged to Michigan

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Environmental Protection Agency (code 068) and place-of-performance Michigan. The extract sums to $1,742,251,637.27 on 539 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Environmental Protection Agency spending caused Michigan outcomes, or that Michigan caused the federal award book.

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

Great Lakes water-quality assessments, EPA ECHO dashboards, and Superfund NPL lists are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,742,251,637.27 leaves the USAspending award file. The 539 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Five hundred thirty-nine awards under $1.74 billion

Five hundred thirty-nine awards under a $1.74 billion book is a midsize tape. Dividing $1,742,251,637.27 by 539 awards yields an implied mean near $3,232,378. 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 539 and $1,742,251,637.27. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $3,232,378 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,742,251,637.27 and 539. 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 Michigan.

Michigan statewide versus EPA nationwide

Michigan’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. $1,742,251,637.27 is only the Environmental Protection Agency cell inside Michigan. The Environmental Protection Agency national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Michigan answer a different question. They are not the source of the 539 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Cleanup, infrastructure, and grant vehicles can share the 539-row cell. This packet does not split those accounts. Do not rank Michigan as dirtier or cleaner because $1,742,251,637.27 appears next to the state code. Award-file dollars are not pollution counts or beach-closure statistics.

Cleanup obligations are still not cash

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,742,251,637.27 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Michigan 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 × Michigan, $1,742,251,637.27, 539 awards, obligations only.

Overlay and parent hubs

The Michigan × Environmental Protection Agency overlay holds the structured rows behind 539 awards and $1,742,251,637.27. The Michigan 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 $1,742,251,637.27 into outlays.

How to cite EPA in Michigan

Cite USAspending.gov: Environmental Protection Agency (awarding agency 068) obligated $1,742,251,637.27 on 539 awards coded to Michigan. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Michigan and call the figure a national EPA total. Do not drop Environmental Protection Agency and call it Michigan’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $3,232,378 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Michigan subcontractors. Do not convert the Michigan EPA cell into a Great Lakes quality ranking.

Questions

How much has EPA obligated in Michigan?

USAspending.gov shows $1,742,251,637.27 in Environmental Protection Agency obligations coded to Michigan across 539 awards. Awarding-agency 068 and Michigan place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure Great Lakes pollution?

No. $1,742,251,637.27 and 539 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 Michigan?

The implied mean is about $3,232,378 from $1,742,251,637.27 divided by 539 awards. Program and region splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical cleanup contract.

Are EPA obligations in Michigan the same as outlays?

No. $1,742,251,637.27 is an obligation sum on 539 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Michigan × EPA cell into cash.