Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Minnesota

FCC awards tagged to Minnesota

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Federal Communications Commission (code 027) and place-of-performance Minnesota. The extract sums to $1,776,524,522.51 on 6,630 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Federal Communications Commission spending caused Minnesota outcomes, or that Minnesota caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a Minnesota broadband-availability score or a cooperative membership count. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a rural cooperative, a carrier, or an administrative address in the Twin Cities. Work tagged to Minnesota can involve parties elsewhere, and Minnesota work can be coded to another state.

FCC Form 477 maps and state broadband-office dashboards are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,776,524,522.51 leaves the USAspending award file. The 6,630 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Six thousand awards under $1.78 billion

Six thousand six hundred thirty awards under a $1.78 billion book is a high-volume tape. Dividing $1,776,524,522.51 by 6,630 awards yields an implied mean near $267,952. 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 6,630 and $1,776,524,522.51. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $267,952 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,776,524,522.51 and 6,630. 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 Minnesota.

Minnesota statewide versus FCC nationwide

Minnesota’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. $1,776,524,522.51 is only the Federal Communications Commission cell inside Minnesota. The Federal Communications Commission national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Minnesota answer a different question. They are not the source of the 6,630 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Minnesota’s mix of metro fiber and rural cooperatives can tempt readers to treat $1,776,524,522.51 as a last-mile score. The packet does not support that reading. Agency 027 × Minnesota is an award-file cell on 6,630 rows. The implied mean near $267,952 is a blended ratio, not a typical household subsidy.

Commitments on support vehicles

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,776,524,522.51 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Minnesota 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 027 × Minnesota, $1,776,524,522.51, 6,630 awards, obligations only.

Overlay and parent hubs

The Minnesota × Federal Communications Commission overlay holds the structured rows behind 6,630 awards and $1,776,524,522.51. The Minnesota state page and the Federal Communications Commission 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 $1,776,524,522.51 into outlays.

How to cite FCC in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Federal Communications Commission (awarding agency 027) obligated $1,776,524,522.51 on 6,630 awards coded to Minnesota. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Minnesota and call the figure a national FCC total. Do not drop Federal Communications Commission and call it Minnesota’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $267,952 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Minnesota subcontractors. Do not treat the Minnesota FCC cell as a cooperative census.

Questions

How much has the FCC obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov shows $1,776,524,522.51 in Federal Communications Commission obligations coded to Minnesota across 6,630 awards. Awarding-agency 027 and Minnesota place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure rural cooperative broadband?

No. $1,776,524,522.51 and 6,630 awards are award-file coding totals. They are not coverage percentages, cooperative counts, or fiber miles. Correlation between FCC awards and a state code is not causation.

What is the average FCC award in Minnesota?

The implied mean is about $267,952 from $1,776,524,522.51 divided by 6,630 awards. Program splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical household subsidy.

Are FCC obligations in Minnesota the same as outlays?

No. $1,776,524,522.51 is an obligation sum on 6,630 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Minnesota × FCC cell into cash.