Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Tennessee

What the EPA-Tennessee join is

Awarding agency 068 and place-of-performance state TN meet here. $1,119,475,233.66 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide budget, not Tennessee's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Superfund, water-infrastructure, and statewide cleanup folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Tennessee sites.

147 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a short award list beside a billion-dollar obligation total. A few large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks modest. The join does not rank Tennessee against other states and does not name sites inside the extract.

Open Environmental Protection Agency in Tennessee for the filtered table, Tennessee federal spending for the next hub, Environmental Protection Agency for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

147 EPA actions under one Tennessee filter

Dividing $1,119,475,233.66 by 147 yields about $7,615,477.78 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical cleanup contract. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not a site census. Site names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Superfund, water-infrastructure, and statewide cleanup folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 068 without a Tennessee overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Environmental Protection Agency page aggregates 068 without requiring TN geography. The Tennessee federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Tennessee place of performance. Only Environmental Protection Agency in Tennessee applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 147 awards and $1,119,475,233.66.

Place of performance in Tennessee is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list TN while later work occurs in Kentucky or Alabama. EPA awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Nashville. This packet does not split Nashville from Memphis or Oak Ridge.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,119,475,233.66 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Tennessee over-reads the field.

Award count 147 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Tennessee-EPA overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large EPA total in Tennessee does not mean the agency caused Tennessee's environmental mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between industrial geography and EPA awards is expected; it is not a finding about cleanup quality or waste.

Keep $1,119,475,233.66 labeled as agency 068 obligations with Tennessee place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Tennessee-EPA pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 068 (Environmental Protection Agency), Tennessee place of performance, $1,119,475,233.66 in obligations, and 147 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,119,475,233.66 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $7,615,477.78 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical cleanup contract.

Environmental Protection Agency in Tennessee, Tennessee federal spending, Environmental Protection Agency, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,119,475,233.66 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Nashville-versus-Oak Ridge folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A short award list is still a record count, including modifications. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has EPA obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending.gov records $1,119,475,233.66 in obligations for awarding agency 068 with Tennessee place of performance, covering 147 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so few EPA awards in Tennessee relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 147 award actions totaling $1,119,475,233.66. Average obligation per award is about $7,615,477.78, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical cleanup contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Nashville-only EPA total?

No. $1,119,475,233.66 and 147 awards are statewide Tennessee place of performance. This packet does not split Nashville from Memphis or Oak Ridge. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live EPA-Tennessee table?

Environmental Protection Agency in Tennessee is the overlay. Tennessee federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Environmental Protection Agency shows agency 068 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.