Universal Service Fund High Cost obligations in Minnesota

Eighty-six High Cost records meet Minnesota coding

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 32.002 meets Minnesota place of performance. The dollar book is $1,494,850,326.38. The award count is 86. USF High Cost support typically posts as payments to eligible telecommunications carriers serving high-cost areas. Eighty-six records do not equal 86 cooperatives, and they do not isolate Iron Range exchanges from southern Minnesota.

The join does not prove that Minnesota’s rural density, lake-country geography, or a particular CAF/ACAM election caused $1,494,850,326.38. Those are other series. This packet does not split legacy High Cost from newer Connect America mechanisms that still carry 32.002. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Minnesota’s full FCC obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Other universal-service catalog numbers (schools and libraries, rural health) are not this cell. The 86 figure is a record count, including modifications, not a household-passed count.

Eighty-six awards and a blended mean

Eighty-six awards under $1,494,850,326.38 imply a mean near $17,382,004 per award. Larger carrier-support actions can sit above that average; smaller amendments can sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten awards.

Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical monthly High Cost settlement or as a per-location subsidy.

Minnesota’s 32.002 cell versus Basic Health Program

Minnesota’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. USF High Cost is an FCC line. The Basic Health Program (CFDA 93.640) is an HHS cell on the same stack. $1,494,850,326.38 is not Minnesota’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 32.002 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance for High Cost support can sit on Minnesota even when a carrier is incorporated elsewhere. This packet does not reallocate dollars to study areas. Read the overlay as a coding view of 86 awards.

Obligations versus carrier draws

The $1,494,850,326.38 figure is an obligation sum. USF disbursements can trail or split across months. SpendingVault does not publish a 32.002-in-Minnesota outlay total in this packet. Mixing FCC map locations or speed-test statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 32.002 × Minnesota, $1,494,850,326.38, 86 awards, obligations only.

Parent hubs

The Minnesota × Universal Service Fund - High Cost overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,494,850,326.38 on 86 awards. The Minnesota spending page and the CFDA 32.002 program page are the parents. The Minnesota programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into fiber miles or into outlays this packet omits.

What Minnesota USF High Cost is not

Universal Service Fund High Cost support in Minnesota is not a ranking of rural exchanges and not a count of fiber miles. The $1,494,850,326.38 figure is the CFDA 32.002 × Minnesota cell. Eighty-six awards describe carrier-support filing, not 86 cooperatives. Legacy High Cost and newer Connect America mechanisms that still carry 32.002 are not split in this packet.

The Basic Health Program (CFDA 93.640) is an HHS cell on Minnesota’s statewide stack with a nine-award tape. Do not add USF and BHP from memory. Cite 32.002 and Minnesota together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 86-award count. Monthly USF disbursements can split across the obligation window.

Minnesota’s High Cost cell also does not include study-area maps, CAF/ACAM election flags, or locations passed. Those series live with the FCC and USAC. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 32.002 × Minnesota, $1,494,850,326.38, 86 awards. If a later extract revises the 86-row tape, the implied mean near $17,382,004 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a fiber-mile story.

Questions

How much USF High Cost spending is in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov shows $1,494,850,326.38 in CFDA 32.002 obligations coded to Minnesota across 86 awards. The join uses the program number and Minnesota place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 86 awards mean 86 telephone companies?

No. The extract counts 86 award records tagged to CFDA 32.002 and Minnesota. Modifications and multiple support mechanisms can share the tape. The implied mean is about $17,382,004 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.49 billion Minnesota’s full federal spending?

No. $1,494,850,326.38 is only the Universal Service Fund - High Cost cell. Other CFDA programs with Minnesota place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to Minnesota.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to carriers?

No. $1,494,850,326.38 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Monthly USF disbursements can split across the obligation window.