Hazard Mitigation Grant funding in Vermont (CFDA 97.039)

How the Hazard Mitigation Grant–Vermont cell is built

USAspending.gov stores assistance under Catalog numbers. CFDA 97.039 is titled HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT. The Vermont filter is a place-of-performance state code (VT), not a list of towns that received checks. Where those two fields meet, obligations sum to $63,853,071.37 on 10 awards. The national Hazard Mitigation Grant hub still includes every other state. Vermont federal spending still includes every other program. This tie is only the intersection.

An obligation is a legal commitment recorded in the USAspending feed. It is not an outlay. The packet does not publish a fiscal year, so $63,853,071.37 cannot be treated as a single-year appropriation or as a completed drawdown. Correlation between Vermont geography and 97.039 catalog coding is not evidence that mitigation work caused, prevented, or paid for a named flood, ice storm, or buyout.

Packet facts stop at Vermont, CFDA 97.039, $63,853,071.37, and 10 awards. Recipient names, subawards, project addresses, and hazard types are absent. Do not invent contractors, counties, or award recipients to fill those gaps.

What CFDA 97.039 covers on this page

The catalog title is Hazard Mitigation Grant, a FEMA assistance line that USAspending keeps separate from Public Assistance for Presidentially Declared Disasters and from other preparedness catalogs. Mixing those other numbers into $63,853,071.37 would invent a broader total than this 97.039 × VT cell contains. The program name on the packet is Hazard Mitigation Grant; the CFDA title in all caps is HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT. Both refer to the same catalog row.

Dividing $63,853,071.37 by 10 yields about $6.39 million per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical household elevation cost and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Ten is a record count in an aggregate, not ten finished mitigation projects and not ten Vermont counties.

Vermont as a place-of-performance tag

VT is the geography code on the award rows that roll into $63,853,071.37. Awards billed to Burlington, Montpelier, or another Vermont locality can share that tag. Awards coded to New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, or Quebec stay outside the total even when a river basin or mutual-aid region crosses the line. The code does not convert $63.9 million into a town-by-town hazard map.

Vermont federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 97.039 is one row on Vermont programs. $63,853,071.37 is not the state's complete federal footprint. Open Hazard Mitigation Grant in Vermont for the filtered table, CFDA 97.039 for the program without a Vermont filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Reading 10 awards under $63.9 million

$63,853,071.37 ÷ 10 is about $6.39 million per award. The figure is not a median and is not a cost per structure. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 10 as a USAspending award-record count, not as 10 completed buyouts, elevations, or drainage jobs.

Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 10 rows are new awards, continuations, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $63,853,071.37 without changing the join key of 97.039 and VT.

What the pair does not prove

A Hazard Mitigation Grant total tagged to Vermont does not rank the state against other states, does not count disasters, and does not equal cash disbursed. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Campaign-finance filings and federal award tables are different datasets. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $63,853,071.37 on 10 awards for Hazard Mitigation Grant in Vermont.

Keep both sides of the join when you reuse the number: Hazard Mitigation Grant and Vermont, obligations only. Do not annualize $63,853,071.37 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a project narrative.

Using the Vermont × 97.039 overlay

The overlay target is /states/vt/programs/97.039/. Open Hazard Mitigation Grant in Vermont when you want the same $63,853,071.37 / 10-awards cell in the site's data chrome. CFDA 97.039 drops the Vermont filter. Vermont federal spending drops the catalog filter. Vermont programs lists other catalogs beside Hazard Mitigation Grant. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Vermont won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 97.039 plus VT. Obligations of $63,853,071.37 are not outlays. Cite Hazard Mitigation Grant together with Vermont whenever you reuse $63,853,071.37.

Questions

How much Hazard Mitigation Grant funding is obligated in Vermont?

USAspending.gov shows $63,853,071.37 in CFDA 97.039 obligations coded to Vermont across 10 awards. The join uses the program number and Vermont place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Hazard Mitigation Grant and Vermont together when citing $63,853,071.37.

Is the Hazard Mitigation Grant the same as FEMA Public Assistance in Vermont?

No. This cell is CFDA 97.039 only. Public Assistance for presidentially declared disasters sits on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $63,853,071.37. Ten is a record count, not a project census.

Does 10 awards mean 10 Vermont towns received grants?

Ten is a USAspending award-record count, not a town, county, or project census. The implied mean is about $6.39 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $63,853,071.37 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $63,853,071.37, 10 awards, VT, and 97.039. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal money already spent on mitigation?

No. $63,853,071.37 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no project, structure, or disaster count. Keep the obligation label when citing the pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 97.039 × VT pair.