Environmental Protection Agency federal obligations in Washington

EPA awards tagged to Washington

Environmental Protection Agency as awarding agency, Washington as place-of-performance: 508 records summing to $1,116,289,942.58. An EPA award coded outside WA is out. An award in Washington from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Washington (WA) excludes Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. A Portland-coded award is Oregon.

Five hundred eight awards is a mid-count EPA file. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 508 as 508 unique Superfund sites, unique permits, or pounds of emissions. The overlay Environmental Protection Agency in Washington is the both-keys table. Washington federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Environmental Protection Agency is the agency book without a WA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Not Superfund sites or a permit roster

$1,116,289,942.58 does not measure Superfund sites, unique permits, or pounds of emissions. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 068 and a WA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 508 awards as a census of cleanup sites. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Washington federal spending or Environmental Protection Agency matched $1,116,289,942.58 and 508, the join would be pointless. Correlation is not causation: Washington did not “cause” $1,116,289,942.58 by existing as a Pacific state.

Washington, not a Pacific EPA rollup

Place of performance WA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Washington (WA) excludes Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. A Boise-coded award is Idaho. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name Clean Water, Superfund, or diesel-grant line items inside $1,116,289,942.58. This packet does not split the total by Seattle, Spokane, or Hanford. 508 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations, not cash already paid

Even a mid-count file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,116,289,942.58 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Washington confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Washington’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 508-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 $1,116,289,942.58.

Citing EPA in Washington

Cite USAspending.gov: Environmental Protection Agency (agency 068) obligated $1,116,289,942.58 on 508 awards coded to Washington. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as Superfund sites or pounds of emissions. The compact $1.12 billion is that same dollar total rounded.

Prefer Environmental Protection Agency in Washington if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Washington federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WA. Environmental Protection Agency is the 068 parent without the WA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,116,289,942.58. The implied mean near $2,197,421.15 is $1,116,289,942.58 divided by 508. Means are not medians.

Using the overlay without stacking the parents

The live pair sits on Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. That overlay is supposed to carry awarding-agency 068 and place-of-performance WA together. Washington federal spending aggregates every awarding agency tagged to WA and should exceed $1,116,289,942.58 unless the ingest is broken. Environmental Protection Agency aggregates 068 without requiring WA and should likewise be larger. All spending ties is an index of other pairs, not a pool of dollars you add to this cell. If a parent matched 508 awards and $1,116,289,942.58 exactly, the join would have no work left to do. This packet does not publish those parent totals, so this page does not invent them.

No fiscal year appears in the facts, so this narrative does not attach FY2025 or FY2026 to $1,116,289,942.58. Keep the obligation label. The implied mean near $2,197,421.15 remains $1,116,289,942.58 divided by 508 — a texture cue, not a typical cleanup contract. Unique recipients stay unpublished. Do not invent Superfund site names. Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska EPA joins are other pairs. FEC filings are a different dataset. A later ingest can restate 508 or the dollar cell; rewrite the sentence whose source moved and leave the pair defined as agency 068 × Washington.

Questions

How much has the Environmental Protection Agency obligated in Washington?

USAspending.gov records $1,116,289,942.58 across 508 awards with awarding agency 068 and a Washington tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of Superfund sites. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,116,289,942.58.

Is $1,116,289,942.58 a measure of Superfund sites or permits?

No. The packet publishes $1,116,289,942.58 and 508 awards for agency 068 inside WA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Does this EPA file include Oregon?

No. Place of performance is Washington (WA). Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska are other pairs. Combined with $1,116,289,942.58, the average is about $2,197,421.15. A Portland-coded award is Oregon. Later ingests can revise 508. Keep both the agency and the state when quoting the cell. USAspending.gov remains the source.

Where is the live table?

Environmental Protection Agency in Washington is the overlay. Washington 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 $1,116,289,942.58. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.