Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Maine

Commission 027 meeting Maine

Federal Communications Commission as awarding agency, Maine as place-of-performance: 2,161 awards summing to $525,295,047.22. A Federal Communications Commission award coded outside ME is out. An award in Maine from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maine (ME) excludes New Hampshire and Massachusetts. A Portland-coded award with a New Hampshire place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

2,161 awards against $525,295,047.22 is a 2,161-award communications file, similar in thickness to Wyoming’s FCC join. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,161 as 2,161 unique license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Federal Communications Commission in Maine is the both-keys table. Maine federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency book without a ME filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Maine’s Portland is not Oregon’s Portland. Place-of-performance ME is the filter. Unique carriers are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Maine did not cause $525,295,047.22 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 027 × ME only.

A thick FCC file is not a carrier census

$525,295,047.22 does not measure license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 027 and an ME place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,161 awards as a census of license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maine federal spending or Federal Communications Commission matched $525,295,047.22 and 2,161, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state FCC joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maine, not a Down East-only map

Place of performance ME is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maine (ME) excludes New Hampshire and Massachusetts. A Portland-coded award with a New Hampshire place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $525,295,047.22 by city, county, or named facility. 2,161 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Two thousand one hundred sixty-one obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $525,295,047.22 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maine confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maine’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,161 awards 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 $525,295,047.22.

Citing the FCC in Maine

Cite USAspending.gov: Federal Communications Commission (agency 027) obligated $525,295,047.22 on 2,161 awards coded to Maine. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers.

Prefer Federal Communications Commission in Maine if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maine federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to ME. Federal Communications Commission is the 027 parent without the ME filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $525,295,047.22.

A usable footnote names Federal Communications Commission, Maine, $525,295,047.22, and 2,161. The compact headline $525.3M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $243,079.61 is $525,295,047.22 divided by 2,161. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has Federal Communications Commission obligated in Maine?

USAspending.gov records $525,295,047.22 across 2,161 awards with awarding agency 027 and a Maine tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maine’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 2,161 FCC awards mean 2,161 Maine providers?

No. $525,295,047.22 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 027 × ME. It does not measure license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this FCC file have 2,161 awards?

2,161 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $525,295,047.22 by 2,161 yields about $243,079.61 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Federal Communications Commission in Maine?

Federal Communications Commission in Maine is the overlay for both keys. Maine federal spending is the all-agency Maine hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.