Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Montana

Commission 027 overlapping Montana

Federal Communications Commission as awarding agency, Montana as place-of-performance: 2,264 records summing to $1,095,978,063.23. A Federal Communications Commission award coded outside MT is out. An award in Montana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Montana (MT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A Billings-coded award with a Wyoming place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

2,264 awards against $1,095,978,063.23 is a 2,264-award communications file, many rows against a nine-figure sum. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2264 as 2264 unique license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Federal Communications Commission in Montana is the both-keys table. Montana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency book without an MT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Universal-service folklore is not a packet field. The join is awarding-agency 027 × MT only. Correlation is not causation: Montana did not cause $1,095,978,063.23 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 027 × MT only.

Spectrum folklore is unpublished

$1,095,978,063.23 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 MT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2264 awards as a census of license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Montana federal spending or Federal Communications Commission matched $1,095,978,063.23 and 2264, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state FCC joins are other pairs, not addends.

Montana, not a county-seat list

Place of performance MT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Montana (MT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A Billings-coded award with a Wyoming place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $1,095,978,063.23 by city, county, or named facility. 2264 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Thousands of FCC rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,095,978,063.23 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Montana confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Montana’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,264 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 $1,095,978,063.23. Sharing a geography with Federal Communications Commission does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing the FCC in Montana

Cite USAspending.gov: Federal Communications Commission (agency 027) obligated $1,095,978,063.23 on 2,264 awards coded to Montana. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as license counts, tower inventories, or named carriers.

Prefer Federal Communications Commission in Montana if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Montana federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MT. Federal Communications Commission is the 027 parent without the MT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,095,978,063.23.

A usable footnote names Federal Communications Commission, Montana, $1,095,978,063.23, and 2264. The compact headline $1.10B is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $484,089.25 is $1,095,978,063.23 divided by 2264. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

A rural FCC file is still a row count

Montana’s FCC overlay is 2264 awards totaling $1,095,978,063.23. High-cost support folklore is unpublished. Do not treat 2,264 rows as 2,264 unique carriers. Colorado, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania FCC pages in this slice are other pairs.

Questions

How much has Federal Communications Commission obligated in Montana?

USAspending.gov records $1,095,978,063.23 across 2,264 awards with awarding agency 027 and a Montana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Montana’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 2,264 FCC awards mean 2,264 Montana licenses?

No. $1,095,978,063.23 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 027 × MT. 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.

Why does this FCC file have 2264 awards?

2264 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $1,095,978,063.23 by 2264 yields about $484,089.25 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 Montana?

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