Universal Service Fund - High Cost in South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00)

SD-00 × 32.002 is a high-cost join, not a carrier roster

Universal Service Fund - High Cost meets South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) on this page. $464,791,769.73 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both the CFDA 32.002 tag and congressional-district place of performance SD-00. It is not South Dakota’s statewide Universal Service Fund - High Cost book, not the nationwide program total, and not an FCC high-cost support ranking or a named-carrier roster. South Dakota At-Large District is the district parent without this program filter. CFDA 32.002 is the program parent without the SD-00 filter. Correlation is not causation.

29 is an award-action count. Modifications can add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished, and this page will not invent contractors or award recipients. Dividing $464,791,769.73 by 29 yields about $16,027,302.40 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical rural loop subsidy or a typical carrier settlement. FEC contribution tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. High-cost support is a Universal Service catalog line. At-large geography covers the state’s House seat; it does not name carriers.

Universal Service Fund High Cost as a catalog title

The official catalog title is UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST. SpendingVault does not grade South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) on Universal Service Fund - High Cost, backlog, or policy. $464,791,769.73 is an obligation sum, not a verdict. CFDA 32.002 without the district filter is the national hub; this packet has no national total, so none is quoted. Other USF mechanisms such as Lifeline or E-Rate listings remain outside $464,791,769.73.

FCC Universal Service Fund reports, NECA filings, and high-cost support public notices are other series. They are not the 29 awards on USAspending.gov. Mixing a census from those files with this join would invent a per-unit dollar figure the packet does not support. Rural-loop and carrier-settlement folklore is ordinary speech, not a packet field. Lifeline and E-Rate sit on other CFDAs. This packet has no loop-count table and no named-carrier list.

South Dakota At-Large besides CFDA 32.002

South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) is the geography side. Place of performance SD-00 is a coding field in the award file. It does not prove residency of beneficiaries, students, patients, or vendors. South Dakota federal spending is the statewide parent and includes other districts. Pierre appearing as a capital does not award the cell. Sioux Falls folklore is not a county split. Because SD-00 is at-large, the House geography covers South Dakota. That still does not convert this cell into every CFDA coded to the state.

The district’s all-program obligation total is $20,304,783,123.44. $464,791,769.73 is the Universal Service Fund - High Cost slice of that book, about 2.3%. Remaining district dollars sit with other CFDAs on South Dakota At-Large District, not inside this join. Quoting $464,791,769.73 as South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00)’s entire federal book would drop every other catalog line.

Twenty-nine awards, not twenty-nine rural loops

29 awards against $464,791,769.73 implies about $16,027,302.40 per award. That mean is not a unit price and not a typical rural loop subsidy or a typical carrier settlement. High-cost support awards and modifications can dominate dollars while the row count stays at 29. 29 rows can include continuations and amendments. Treat the count as records in an aggregate, not as 29 finished projects or 29 people. All spending ties lists other district-by-program pairs on the same obligation metric.

USF obligations versus settlements already posted

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment from the Treasury. $464,791,769.73 is the commitment figure. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split, so none is invented. Citing the figure as cash already spent in South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) over-reads the field. Do not rank South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) as a winner or loser versus other districts. Keep both sides in the citation: Universal Service Fund - High Cost (CFDA 32.002) and South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00).

Budget documents from Pierre and South Dakota appropriations answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes General Fund activity with CFDA 32.002 in SD-00, the chart has left the federal award series. The Pierre–Sioux Falls axis as speech only did not receive $464,791,769.73 as a named metro in this packet.

How to cite the 32.002 × SD-00 pair

Cite: Universal Service Fund - High Cost (CFDA 32.002) obligated $464,791,769.73 on 29 awards coded to South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00), per USAspending.gov. Keep both keys. Keep the word obligations. Open South Dakota At-Large District for the district rollup, CFDA 32.002 for the program rollup, South Dakota federal spending for South Dakota statewide spending, and All spending ties for other pairs. Later bulk files can move the dollars and the 29-award count; prefer those tables when the live overlay and this snapshot diverge. None of those links convert this cell into an FCC high-cost support ranking or a named-carrier roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list.

Questions

How much Universal Service Fund - High Cost funding is obligated in South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00)?

USAspending.gov records $464,791,769.73 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) place of performance across 29 awards. That is a program × district join, not an outlay and not South Dakota’s full federal total.

Do 29 awards mean 29 local carrier, loop,s?

No. 29 is an award-action count and can include modifications. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $16,027,302.40 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical rural loop subsidy or a typical carrier settlement.

Is this South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00)’s entire federal spending total?

No. $464,791,769.73 is only the Universal Service Fund - High Cost slice tagged to South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00), about 2.3% of the district’s $20,304,783,123.44 all-program total. South Dakota federal spending is the statewide parent. Other CFDAs on South Dakota At-Large District sit outside this join.

Where are the live SD-00 and CFDA 32.002 tables?

South Dakota At-Large District is the district parent. CFDA 32.002 is the CFDA 32.002 hub. South Dakota federal spending is the South Dakota parent. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes 32.002 × SD-00 at $464,791,769.73.