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Rural And Tribal Transit awarded by Transportation

$3,638,805,249.96 in USAspending.gov obligations sit on Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program (CFDA 20.509) where the awarding agency is Department of Transportation (code 069), across 715 awards. FORMULA GRANTS FOR RURAL AREAS AND TRIBAL TRANSIT PROGRAM is CFDA 20.509 at DOT agency 069. This page is that program–agency join, not a rural-ridership series, a tribal-transit fleet census, or a Section 5311 ranking. Obligations are not outlays.

Key figures

  • Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program via Department of Transportation: $3,638,805,249.96 in USAspending obligations (CFDA 20.509, agency 069).
  • Join obligations of $3,638,805,249.96 sit below the CFDA program total of $3,655,333,859.48.
  • The table lists 715 awards, not a census of transit operators.
  • The join is Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program × Department of Transportation, not a rural-transit ranking or a named operator roster.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

Rural And Tribal Transit overlapping DOT — CFDA 20.509

The pair is Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program × Department of Transportation. $3,638,805,249.96 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 20.509 and awarding-agency 069. The join obligation $3,638,805,249.96 is below the CFDA program total of $3,655,333,859.48. This page does not invent the other awarding agencies that may sit outside Department of Transportation on Rural And Tribal Transit. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that Department of Transportation caused Rural And Tribal Transit activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a rural-transit ranking or a named operator roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is FORMULA GRANTS FOR RURAL AREAS AND TRIBAL TRANSIT PROGRAM. The agency name on the awarding side is Department of Transportation. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $3,638,805,249.96 as obligations on the Rural And Tribal Transit–DOT pair.

CFDA 20.509 as the rural areas and tribal transit side

CFDA 20.509 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $3,655,333,859.48. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the Department of Transportation slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $3,655,333,859.48 as cash Treasury already sent. Operators, tribes, and route inventories are unpublished on this packet.

Open CFDA 20.509 at /programs/20.509/ for the program hub. That page is not this join: it can include other awarding agencies if the extract lists them, and it is still obligations rather than outlays. This ties page stays on CFDA 20.509 awarded by agency 069 only.

Agency 069, Department of Transportation

Department of Transportation is awarding-agency 069 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub Department of Transportation at /agencies/069/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only Rural And Tribal Transit. Reading $3,638,805,249.96 as Department of Transportation’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $3,638,805,249.96. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts.

715 awards as a CFDA table, not an operator census

The extract lists 715 awards on the Rural And Tribal Transit × Department of Transportation table. That is an award-record count, not a census of transit operators. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $3,638,805,249.96 by 715 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

Ridership rankings this rural-transit–DOT join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $3,638,805,249.96 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Rural And Tribal Transit over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Department of Transportation specialized in Rural And Tribal Transit because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $3,638,805,249.96 labeled as Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program obligations awarded by Department of Transportation.

Hubs for CFDA 20.509 × agency 069

Open /programs/20.509/ for CFDA 20.509, /agencies/069/ for Department of Transportation, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a rural-transit ranking or a named operator roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program and Department of Transportation, $3,638,805,249.96, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did Department of Transportation award on Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program?
USAspending.gov records $3,638,805,249.96 in Formula Grants For Rural Areas And Tribal Transit Program obligations awarded by Department of Transportation (CFDA 20.509, agency 069) across 715 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not Department of Transportation’s entire book.
Is rural and tribal transit via DOT cash already paid to operators?
No. $3,638,805,249.96 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Rural And Tribal Transit awarded by Department of Transportation. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Does 715 awards mean 715 transit operators?
No. 715 is an award-record count, not a census of transit operators. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.
Which pages parent Rural And Tribal Transit and DOT?
/programs/20.509/ is the program parent. /agencies/069/ is the Department of Transportation parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Rural And Tribal Transit × DOT at $3,638,805,249.96.

USAspending.gov CFDA program joined to awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.