EPA federal obligations in North Carolina 8th District (NC-08)
Awarding agency 068 and North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) meet at $570,835,698.08 in USAspending.gov obligations, spread across 81 awards. Eighty-one EPA-coded awards cover about fourteen percent of NC-08's district obligation total, a larger district share than a compact environmental file often implies, without ranking districts as winners. That pair is Environmental Protection Agency and North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) — not North Carolina's entire federal inflow, not Environmental Protection Agency nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 13.9% of this district's published obligation total ($4,097,998,884.34). Implied average obligation is about $7,047,354.30 ($570,835,698.08 ÷ 81). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- EPA in North Carolina 8th District (NC-08): $570,835,698.08 across 81 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $7,047,354.30 per record; district share 13.9% of $4,097,998,884.34.
- Agency 068 × NC-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote North Carolina 8th District and Environmental Protection Agency if live tables moved.
- North Carolina federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $570,835,698.08.
Reading agency 068 inside NC-08
Awarding agency 068 and congressional district NC-08 meet here. $570,835,698.08 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to North Carolina 8th District (NC-08), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split EPA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. 81 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a Superfund site list, a permit census, or a named-grantee file.
This page reports environmental awarding activity USAspending tagged to this district. The headline $570,835,698.08 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $4,097,998,884.34; the 13.9% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of North Carolina districts as winners or losers. District 90 and 98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest. Obligations are not outlays.
Agency 068 without inventing a component pie
USAspending labels awarding agency 068 as Environmental Protection Agency. That code produced $570,835,698.08 when crossed with North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) place of performance. The agency-wide 068 hub does not require NC-08 geography. The district hub does not require EPA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 81 awards. The packet does not split EPA programs or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) did not cause $570,835,698.08 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 068 × NC-08 only. This cell is not a Superfund site list, a permit census, or a named-grantee file. 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.
How North Carolina Carolina 8th District is coded
North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list NC-08 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other North Carolina districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 068. North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside North Carolina. Other North Carolina districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 068. North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) is a numbered USAspending geography inside North Carolina. Another state's 8th district is a different join.
North Carolina federal spending shows how agency 068 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $570,835,698.08 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Environmental Protection Agency. The district-wide obligation total published here is $4,097,998,884.34; $570,835,698.08 is the EPA slice of that denominator.
What the dollar figure is allowed to mean
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $570,835,698.08 is that kind of sum for Environmental Protection Agency inside NC-08 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $570,835,698.08 as given.
North Carolina's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 81-row EPA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 81 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 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 ($7,047,354.30) is a concentration statistic, not a typical NC-08 EPA payment.
Parents of this tie: district, agency, state
Cite USAspending.gov: Environmental Protection Agency (agency 068) obligated $570,835,698.08 on 81 awards coded to North Carolina 8th District (NC-08). Name Environmental Protection Agency and North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) together. Keep the obligation word. If North Carolina 8th District or Environmental Protection Agency has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a Superfund site list, a permit census, or a named-grantee file. 13.9% of $4,097,998,884.34 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Environmental Protection Agency, North Carolina 8th District (NC-08), $570,835,698.08, and 81 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Environmental Protection Agency is the 068 parent without a NC-08 filter. North Carolina federal spending is the North Carolina parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with EPA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.
Limits of the NC-08 × 068 snapshot
81 awards is a compact EPA file. The implied mean is large relative to a small-grant story and is still not a named Superfund site list. Share is arithmetic on this packet's two dollar facts. It is not a hardship ranking of North Carolina districts. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $7,047,354.30) and the district share (13.9% of $4,097,998,884.34) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer North Carolina 8th District and Environmental Protection Agency if the live tables moved.
Do not rank North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) as more EPA-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 068 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 068 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $570,835,698.08 and 81 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much EPA spending is coded to North Carolina 8th District (NC-08)?
- USAspending.gov lists $570,835,698.08 in Environmental Protection Agency obligations across 81 awards with place of performance in North Carolina 8th District (NC-08). Agency 068 × NC-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not North Carolina's complete federal ledger. The cell is 13.9% of the district's published total ($4,097,998,884.34). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $7,047,354.30, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $570,835,698.08 include every EPA program in NC-08?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split EPA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. $570,835,698.08 is the combined obligation sum for agency 068 inside NC-08 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Environmental Protection Agency and North Carolina 8th District to inspect parent tables. 81 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $570,835,698.08 cash already paid in North Carolina 8th District (NC-08)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $570,835,698.08 as checks already cleared in North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 81 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Do FEC donations fund these EPA awards in NC-08?
- No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing North Carolina geography does not mean donations funded $570,835,698.08 in North Carolina 8th District (NC-08). This page reports USAspending.gov awarding-agency 068 crossed with place of performance NC-08. It does not report campaign finance. Keep Environmental Protection Agency and North Carolina 8th District (NC-08) on the same citation.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.