Highway Planning and Construction in Virginia

Virginia’s cell on the 20.205 table

CFDA 20.205 is titled HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. Crossed with Virginia place of performance, obligations sum to $3,681,932,531.20 on 2,294 awards. The national highway-planning hub includes other states. Virginia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this pair is reported here. $3,681,932,531.20 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of Interstate segments.

2,294 awards sits between a handful of statewide lumps and a fully fragmented project file: many instruments, still at a mean near $1.61 million. The join does not name VDOT districts, list contractors, or count bridges. Packet facts stop at $3,681,932,531.20, 2,294 awards, VA, and 20.205. Correlation is not causation. 2,294 highway instruments carrying $3,681,932,531.20 sit between Louisiana’s and Wisconsin’s 20.205 cells in this slice without ranking those road networks.

Federal-aid highways versus other Virginia transportation rows

The catalog title names Highway Planning And Construction. Transit, aviation, and rail catalogs are different rows and are not mixed into $3,681,932,531.20. Facts available: Virginia, CFDA 20.205, $3,681,932,531.20, 2,294 awards. Letting schedules, HOV-lane inventories, and contractor names are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,681,932,531.20 by 2,294 yields about $1.61 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 2,294 is not a census of construction contracts.

Virginia as place of performance

VA is the place-of-performance code. A statewide formula award can still appear as records tagged to Richmond, Northern Virginia, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, or the District of Columbia stay outside $3,681,932,531.20 even when a corridor crosses those borders. The code does not convert $3.68 billion into a district project map. Corridor awards that cross into Maryland or North Carolina stay outside $3,681,932,531.20 unless the place-of-performance code is VA.

Virginia federal spending is the all-program parent. 20.205 is one row on Virginia programs. $3.68 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Highway Planning And Construction in Virginia for the filtered table, CFDA 20.205 for 20.205 without a Virginia filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,681,932,531.20.

Reading 2,294 awards under $3.68 billion

$3,681,932,531.20 ÷ 2,294 is about $1.61 million per award. That average is not a median and not a typical bid tab. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 2,294 as a record count, not as 2,294 completed highways. A Richmond or Northern Virginia address on a 20.205 instrument does not convert $3,681,932,531.20 into a VDOT district table or a contractor list.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,681,932,531.20 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 2,294 rows are continuations, modifications, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $3,681,932,531.20 without changing the join key of 20.205 and VA.

What the highway–Virginia pair does not prove

A large 20.205 total tagged to Virginia does not measure congestion on I-95, and it does not equal construction invoices already paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $3,681,932,531.20 on 2,294 awards for Highway Planning And Construction in Virginia.

Keep both sides of the join: Highway Planning And Construction and Virginia, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,681,932,531.20 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 2,294 as a contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a construction-progress story.

Using the highway–Virginia overlay

The overlay target is the Virginia × CFDA 20.205 table. Open Highway Planning And Construction in Virginia when you want the same $3,681,932,531.20 / 2,294-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 20.205 drops the Virginia filter. Virginia federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Virginia programs lists other catalogs beside 20.205. All spending ties indexes 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 Virginia won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 20.205 plus VA. Obligations of $3,681,932,531.20 are not outlays.

Questions

How much highway planning funding is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $3,681,932,531.20 in CFDA 20.205 obligations with Virginia place of performance on 2,294 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Highway Planning And Construction and Virginia together when citing $3,681,932,531.20. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 2,294 awards mean 2,294 Virginia highway projects?

2,294 is a USAspending award-record count, not a project, contractor, or mile census. The implied mean is about $1.61 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,681,932,531.20 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.68 billion Virginia’s full federal transportation spend?

No. $3,681,932,531.20 is only the 20.205 × Virginia cell. Other transportation catalogs appear on separate Virginia program pages. Nationwide 20.205 is not limited to Virginia. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.205 × VA pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Have these highway dollars already been spent?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live highway–Virginia table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.