Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Texas

A thin EPA file on a Texas tag

Environmental Protection Agency as awarding agency, Texas as place-of-performance: 410 records summing to $2,067,173,254.91. An Environmental Protection Agency award coded outside TX is out. An award in Texas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A Shreveport-coded award is LA even if a cleanup later spans the Sabine. Water, air, Superfund, and other EPA accounts are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 068.

Four hundred ten awards against $2,067,173,254.91 is a thin, high-mean EPA file. A handful of assistance vehicles can dominate the dollar total. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 410 as 410 unique Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities. The overlay Environmental Protection Agency in Texas is the both-keys table. Texas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Environmental Protection Agency is the agency book without a TX filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Houston, Dallas, and the border are unpublished. Assigning $2,067,173,254.91 to a named Superfund site is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Texas did not “cause” $2,067,173,254.91 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 068 × TX only.

Not a Superfund site list or permit census

$2,067,173,254.91 does not measure Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 068 and a TX place-of-performance tag. Water, air, Superfund, and other EPA accounts are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 068.

Do not treat 410 awards as a census of Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Texas federal spending or Environmental Protection Agency matched $2,067,173,254.91 and 410, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico EPA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Texas statewide, not a Houston-versus-border map

Place of performance TX is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A Shreveport-coded award is LA even if a cleanup later spans the Sabine. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso, and the rest of the counties share one TX stamp.

Houston, Dallas, and the border are unpublished. Assigning $2,067,173,254.91 to a named Superfund site is a new extract. This packet does not split $2,067,173,254.91 by city, county, or named facility. 410 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,067,173,254.91 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Texas confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Texas’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 410-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,067,173,254.91.

Citing EPA in Texas

Cite USAspending.gov: Environmental Protection Agency (agency 068) obligated $2,067,173,254.91 on 410 awards coded to Texas. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities.

Prefer Environmental Protection Agency in Texas if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Texas federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to TX. Environmental Protection Agency is the 068 parent without the TX filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,067,173,254.91. A usable footnote names Environmental Protection Agency, Texas, $2,067,173,254.91, and 410. The compact headline $2.07 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $5.04 million is $2,067,173,254.91 divided by 410. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Environmental Protection Agency obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $2,067,173,254.91 across 410 awards with awarding agency 068 and a Texas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities. Environmental Protection Agency in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,067,173,254.91.

Is $2,067,173,254.91 a measure of Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities?

No. The packet publishes $2,067,173,254.91 and 410 awards for agency 068 inside TX coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this EPA file have 410 awards?

That is the award-record count for 068 × TX. Combined with $2,067,173,254.91, the average is about $5.04 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 410 is not unique Superfund sites, unique permittees, or named facilities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live EPA–Texas table?

Environmental Protection Agency in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending and Environmental Protection Agency are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,067,173,254.91. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.