USF High Cost obligations in Kansas

Kansas joined to CFDA 32.002

CFDA 32.002 is titled UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST. Crossed with Kansas place of performance, obligations sum to $580,130,998.27 on 58 awards. The national 32.002 hub includes other states. Kansas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $580,130,998.27 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural exchanges in western Kansas.

Fifty-eight awards is a carrier-support pattern: High Cost USF often posts as several dozen discrete records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $580,130,998.27, 58 awards, KS, and 32.002. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep USF High Cost and Kansas together when reading $580,130,998.27.

32.002 is not Lifeline in Kansas

Lifeline and E-Rate use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $580,130,998.27 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Kansas, CFDA 32.002, $580,130,998.27, 58 awards. Carrier names, study-area codes, and subscriber counts are unpublished.

The catalog title names Universal Service Fund High Cost, not a ranking of carriers. Dividing $580,130,998.27 by 58 yields about $10.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 58 is not a carrier or subscriber census.

Kansas geography on the High Cost tag

KS is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Colorado stay outside $580,130,998.27 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $580.13 million into a coverage map.

Kansas federal spending is the all-program parent. 32.002 is one row on Kansas programs. $580.13 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Kansas for the filtered table, CFDA 32.002 for the catalog without a Kansas filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $580,130,998.27.

Reading 58 awards under $580.13 million

$580,130,998.27 ÷ 58 is about $10.00 million per award. That average is a high-cost support scale, not a per-line rebate, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 58 as a record count, not as 58 carriers.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 58 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $580,130,998.27 without changing the join key of 32.002 and KS. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $580,130,998.27 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains USF High Cost plus Kansas. Do not treat $580,130,998.27 as an outlay series.

What the 32.002–Kansas pair does not prove

A large 32.002 total tagged to Kansas does not measure whether broadband coverage expanded, and it does not equal miles of fiber built. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $580,130,998.27 on 58 awards for USF High Cost in Kansas.

Keep both sides of the join: Universal Service Fund - High Cost and Kansas, obligations only. Do not annualize $580,130,998.27 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 58 as a carrier or subscriber census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a rural-broadband story. Cite USF High Cost together with Kansas whenever you reuse $580,130,998.27.

Using the USF High Cost–Kansas overlay

The overlay target is the Kansas × CFDA 32.002 table. Open Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Kansas when you want the same $580,130,998.27 / 58-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 32.002 drops the Kansas filter. Kansas federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Kansas programs lists other catalogs beside 32.002. 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 Kansas won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 32.002 plus KS. Obligations of $580,130,998.27 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 32.002 × KS pair. 58 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much USF High Cost support is obligated in Kansas?

USAspending records $580,130,998.27 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with Kansas place of performance on 58 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and Kansas together when citing $580,130,998.27.

Does 58 awards mean 58 Kansas carriers?

58 is a USAspending award-record count, not a carrier or subscriber census. The implied mean is about $10.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 58 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Kansas’s total federal telecom spending?

No. This join is CFDA 32.002 only. Lifeline, E-Rate, and other catalogs appear on separate Kansas program pages. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to Kansas. Obligations of $580,130,998.27 are not outlays. The overlay is the live USF High Cost–Kansas table.

Do these obligations equal fiber already built?

No. $580,130,998.27 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 32.002 × KS pair.