Universal Service Fund - High Cost (CFDA 32.002) in Nebraska

High-cost USF and Nebraska as a two-key cell

CFDA 32.002 carries the title Universal Service Fund - High Cost. Nebraska is the place-of-performance state on the matching rows. $1,164,913,608.90 is the sum of obligations that carry both keys. The Nebraska hub totals every CFDA. The national 32.002 hub totals every state. This tie is the overlap. It does not prove that Nebraska’s rural density caused the awards, and it does not convert support payments into a quality ranking of carriers.

Sixty-two awards against $1.16 billion is a concentrated instrument file relative to assistance lines that run to thousands of rows. The mean near $18.8 million is an average across those 62 records, not a typical monthly support check.

CFDA 32.002 is one universal-service bucket

High Cost is a specific catalog title. Other Universal Service Fund mechanisms, if they appear under different CFDA numbers, are not inside $1,164,913,608.90. Folding those lines together would misstate this cell. Packet facts are the obligation sum, 62 awards, state NE, and CFDA 32.002. No carrier list and no subscriber count are included.

The catalog describes support intended for high-cost areas. USAspending still records the dollars as obligations on award rows tagged to Nebraska. That geography tag is not a census of unserved locations and is not a Federal Communications Commission docket summary.

Nebraska on the place-of-performance field

Nebraska is USAspending state code NE. A carrier based in another state can still show NE if performance is coded there. Awards coded to Iowa, Kansas, or South Dakota belong on other ties. $1,164,913,608.90 is not every federal telecommunications dollar in Nebraska and is not a county-level broadband map.

Statewide Nebraska federal spending is the parent. CFDA 32.002 is one program in that parent. Readers who want farm, highway, or health assistance in Nebraska should leave this join and use the state programs index.

Reading the $18.8 million average

Average obligation is about $18.8 million ($1,164,913,608.90 ÷ 62). Large support instruments can sit beside smaller ones. The packet does not give a median or a maximum. Treat 62 as the award-record count in the harvest, not as the number of telephone companies in the state.

Net obligations may include negative adjustments. This page reports $1,164,913,608.90 as given. Obligations are not outlays. A commitment on the award file is not the same as cash already paid.

What this Nebraska–USF pair is not

The join does not mean Nebraska appropriated these dollars, and it does not mean high-cost support outlays equal $1,164,913,608.90. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Continue from Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Nebraska for the overlay table, CFDA 32.002 for the national program, Nebraska federal spending for all programs, Nebraska programs for other CFDA lines, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How the High Cost overlay sits beside other Nebraska lines

Universal Service Fund - High Cost in Nebraska is the overlay table for CFDA 32.002 inside state NE. Sixty-two awards and $1,164,913,608.90 are the packet facts that table should match until the next harvest. High Cost is not a last-mile construction log. It is an obligation aggregate on assistance rows tagged to Nebraska. Carrier names, study-area codes, and subscriber counts are outside the facts, so this page does not invent them. A later USAspending restatement can change either the dollar total or the 62-award count without this prose being edited in the same hour.

Nebraska programs lists every CFDA in the state. Readers comparing high-cost support with farm, highway, or health assistance should start there rather than treating $1,164,913,608.90 as Nebraska’s telecommunications budget. The national 32.002 hub lists other states on the same catalog. Iowa and Oklahoma appear as sibling High Cost joins in this harvest with their own row counts. Those siblings are separate geography keys. This page does not rank rural networks and does not convert obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much High Cost Universal Service funding is obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending records $1,164,913,608.90 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with Nebraska place of performance, covering 62 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not outlays.

Is CFDA 32.002 the entire Universal Service Fund?

No. This cell is the High Cost catalog title only. Other USF mechanisms under different CFDA numbers are not included in $1,164,913,608.90.

What is the average High Cost award in Nebraska?

Dividing $1,164,913,608.90 by 62 awards produces about $18.8 million per award. That mean is not a median and not a monthly support invoice.

Does this include all federal spending in Nebraska?

No. Only CFDA 32.002 is in this cell. Other programs appear on the Nebraska programs index.