Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council federal obligations in Louisiana

Thirteen GCERC awards tagged to Louisiana

Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council as awarding agency, Louisiana as place-of-performance: 13 records summing to $317,019,181.98. A Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council award coded outside LA is out. An award in Louisiana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. A Gulf restoration award tagged to those states belongs on those ties, not this cell.

Thirteen awards against $317,019,181.98 is a thin, high-mean Council file. Project-scale vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 13 as 13 unique acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts. The overlay Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council in Louisiana is the both-keys table. Louisiana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council is the agency book without an LA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name RESTORE Act buckets or a parish split. $317,019,181.98 stays a statewide 471 × LA join. Correlation is not causation: Louisiana did not “cause” $317,019,181.98 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 471 × LA only.

Not an oil-spill claims ledger

$317,019,181.98 does not measure acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 471 and an LA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 13 awards as a census of acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Louisiana federal spending or Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council matched $317,019,181.98 and 13, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama GCERC joins if published are other pairs, not addends.

Louisiana, not a five-state Gulf rollup

Place of performance LA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. A Gulf restoration award tagged to those states belongs on those ties, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name RESTORE Act buckets or a parish split. $317,019,181.98 stays a statewide 471 × LA join. This packet does not split $317,019,181.98 by city, county, or named facility. 13 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Restoration vehicles, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $317,019,181.98 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Louisiana confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Louisiana’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 13-award 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 $317,019,181.98. Sharing a state with GCERC does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing GCERC in Louisiana

Cite USAspending.gov: Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (agency 471) obligated $317,019,181.98 on 13 awards coded to Louisiana. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts.

Prefer Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council in Louisiana if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Louisiana federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to LA. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council is the 471 parent without the LA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $317,019,181.98.

A usable footnote names Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, Louisiana, $317,019,181.98, and 13. The compact headline $317.0 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $24.39 million is $317,019,181.98 divided by 13. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $317,019,181.98 across 13 awards with awarding agency 471 and a Louisiana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council in Louisiana is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $317,019,181.98.

Is $317,019,181.98 a measure of acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts?

No. The packet publishes $317,019,181.98 and 13 awards for agency 471 inside LA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this GCERC file have 13 awards?

That is the award-record count for 471 × LA. Combined with $317,019,181.98, the average is about $24.39 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 13 is not unique acres restored, barrels spilled, or Deepwater Horizon claim counts. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana federal spending and Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $317,019,181.98. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.