Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Washington

The awarding-agency 027 filter plus Washington

USAspending.gov stores awarding agency and place of performance on the same award rows. Intersecting 027 with WA yields $703,174,032 in obligations. The pair is not a statement that Washington caused Federal Communications Commission to spend, and it is not a census of households online.

Behind $703,174,032 sit 4,726 award actions (a very long award list). That denominator is why the mean of about $148,788.41 can look large or small depending on how many small rows share the cell. The packet does not publish a median or a unique-recipient count.

Open Federal Communications Commission in Washington for the filtered table, Washington federal spending for the next hub, Federal Communications Commission for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Mean obligation of about $148,788.41

4,726 rows and $703,174,032 produce a mean of about $148,788.41. That ratio is not a typical universal-service award and not a payment to a named vendor. Repeat the two packet facts when you reuse the mean; do not round them into a new official statistic.

Do not infer a typical universal-service award from the mean. The overlay can show mixed instruments; this page only has the two published numbers and the four internal links.

Place of performance versus FCC headquarters

Two one-sided pages exist so this two-sided page can stay small. Federal Communications Commission in Washington is the live overlay. 4,726 awards and $703,174,032 belong only to the pair, not to a blended statewide rollup hidden under this slug.

Mailing address and place of performance can differ. An award that lists Washington geography enters this total; an award that lists Oregon or Idaho does not, even if the vendor answers mail in Seattle. Keep 4,726 attached to the statewide tag.

The obligation field

Readers sometimes treat obligation totals as checks cleared. The packet does not support that reading. $703,174,032 is the commitment sum; outlays are unnamed here.

The source note repeats the same limit: obligations are not outlays. 4,726 is how many award rows carry both tags, not how many payments left the Treasury.

What the join is not

Do not rank Washington as a winner or loser on FCC dollars from this page alone. The packet has no comparison table. All spending ties lists other pairs without turning this cell into a scoreboard.

A searcher who arrived from a political query still gets an awarding-agency × state obligation total. 4,726 awards and $703,174,032 stay in that unit. No donor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Citing $703,174,032 without over-reading it

Reuse $703,174,032 only with the filters that created it. Agency 027 without Washington, or Washington without agency 027, is a different number. About $148,788.41 per award stays a derived ratio of the same two facts.

Keep Federal Communications Commission and Washington in the same sentence whenever you quote $703,174,032. Washington federal spending will look larger because it mixes agencies. Federal Communications Commission will look larger because it mixes states. Federal Communications Commission in Washington is the pair. All spending ties lists other pairs. Correlation is not causation. Federal Communications Commission in Washington remains the filtered table for this pair. Washington federal spending answers a statewide question that mixes agencies. Federal Communications Commission answers an agency question that mixes states. All spending ties is the catalog of other two-sided pages, not a sum of this cell plus its siblings. Nothing in this packet names a contractor, grantee, laboratory, or borrower. Inventing carriers to explain $703,174,032 would break the facts-only rule. If a recipient appears on the overlay, that row is evidence from USAspending.gov, not from this narrative. The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays. Repeating $703,174,032 as cash already spent in Washington is a unit error, not a rounding error. Rural broadband, universal-service support, and tower-siting folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Puget sound and inland-empire folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math.

Questions

What does USAspending show for FCC in Washington?

USAspending.gov records $703,174,032 in obligations for awarding agency 027 (Federal Communications Commission) with Washington place of performance, covering 4,726 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Federal Communications Commission's nationwide budget.

Can I treat the mean as a typical FCC award?

The extract lists 4,726 award actions totaling $703,174,032. Average obligation per award is about $148,788.41, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical universal-service award. Unique carriers are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is place of performance the same as a Seattle mailing address?

No. $703,174,032 and 4,726 awards are statewide Washington place of performance. This packet does not split Seattle from Spokane or Tacoma. Awards coded to Oregon or Idaho are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Seattle.

Where should I go next from this FCC join?

Federal Communications Commission in Washington is the overlay. Washington federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Federal Communications Commission shows agency 027 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.