Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Ohio

EPA and Ohio 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 Ohio. The extract sums to $1,931,858,744.90 on 676 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Environmental Protection Agency spending caused Ohio outcomes, or that Ohio caused the federal award book.

The pair is not an Ohio environmental-quality score or a ranking of Cuyahoga 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 Ohio can involve parties elsewhere, and Ohio work can be coded to another state.

EPA ECHO enforcement dashboards, water-quality assessments, and Superfund NPL lists are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,931,858,744.90 leaves the USAspending award file. The 676 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Six hundred seventy-six awards under $1.93 billion

Six hundred seventy-six awards under a $1.93 billion book is a midsize tape. Dividing $1,931,858,744.90 by 676 awards yields an implied mean near $2,857,779. 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 676 and $1,931,858,744.90. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $2,857,779 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,931,858,744.90 and 676. 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 Ohio.

Ohio statewide versus EPA nationwide

Ohio’s all-agency hub includes every awarding agency with performance in the state. $1,931,858,744.90 is only the Environmental Protection Agency cell inside Ohio. The Environmental Protection Agency national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Ohio answer a different question. They are not the source of the 676 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 676-row cell. This packet does not split those accounts. Do not rank Ohio as dirtier or cleaner because $1,931,858,744.90 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. $1,931,858,744.90 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Ohio 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 × Ohio, $1,931,858,744.90, 676 awards, obligations only.

Overlay and parent hubs

The Ohio × Environmental Protection Agency overlay holds the structured rows behind 676 awards and $1,931,858,744.90. The Ohio 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 $1,931,858,744.90 into outlays.

How to cite EPA in Ohio

Cite USAspending.gov: Environmental Protection Agency (awarding agency 068) obligated $1,931,858,744.90 on 676 awards coded to Ohio. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Ohio and call the figure a national EPA total. Do not drop Environmental Protection Agency and call it Ohio’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $2,857,779 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Ohio subcontractors. Do not convert the Ohio EPA cell into an environmental-quality ranking.

Questions

How much has EPA obligated in Ohio?

USAspending.gov shows $1,931,858,744.90 in Environmental Protection Agency obligations coded to Ohio across 676 awards. Awarding-agency 068 and Ohio place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure Ohio pollution?

No. $1,931,858,744.90 and 676 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 Ohio?

The implied mean is about $2,857,779 from $1,931,858,744.90 divided by 676 awards. Program and region splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical cleanup contract.

Are EPA obligations in Ohio the same as outlays?

No. $1,931,858,744.90 is an obligation sum on 676 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Ohio × EPA cell into cash.