Recovery.gov Posts Excel Template for Stimulus Reporting

Recovery.gov is linking to the Excel spreadsheet template that funding recipients of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) can use to upload mandatory data to yet-to-be-launched FederalReporting.gov. The spreadsheet is the final version, Ed Pound of the Recovery Board said Wednesday. Recipients may also manually upload the data via keystrokes or submit in the XML format; an updated XML schema also was posted this week to Recovery.gov. FederalReporting.gov, the Web site to which state and local governments will upload spending data from the economic stimulus, will go live Monday, Aug. 17, according to a blog post on Recovery.gov. Recipients of funding from ARRA will be able to register through Sept. 30. Reporting will begin the next day and continue until Oct. 10 -- the first deadline of what will be several quarterly reports sent to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).