Quarterly Federal Reports
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes a transparency component known as Section 1512, which, among other things, requires the prime recipients of ARRA funds to file quarterly reports detailing the use of the funds. Prime recipients are entities which are given the responsibility of putting the funding to use or distributing the funding to sub-recipients. The state has filed a centralized report on behalf of the 16 state agencies and 53 programs which are considered prime recipients of ARRA funding.
The document at the link below represents a summary of the first centralized report filed by the state of Indiana. The summary document does not include assistance payments to individuals, such as Medicaid, and any funds provided to prime recipients outside of state government, including local units of government that may have received ARRA funding directly from the federal government or private companies that have direct contracts with the federal government .
The summary lists each prime recipient individually, categorized by the managing state agency. The “Grant Award Amount” column shows the full amount of funds the state expects to receive for a given program. The “Federal Funds Received” column represents the amount of ARRA funds received by the state through draw-down, reimbursement or invoice. The “Federal Funds Expended” column includes ARRA funds received and allocated by the state to stimulus projects or activities. It is important to note that the funding mechanisms for many programs are reimbursement in nature. A zero in the Expended column does not necessarily represent inactivity: For example, programs with expenditures that have not yet been reimbursed with federal dollars or those programs that are currently in the RFP process will not have expenditures to report in this quarter.
The federal government requires states to report the number of “Full Time Equivalents” (FTE) funded with ARRA money. FTE’s are calculated by dividing the number of recovery-act funded hours by the number of full-time hours in the reporting period. FTE’s are not reported until money has been expended and reimbursed.
States are required to file a report with the federal government each quarter. The report is cumulative, so the next quarter report will include awards, federal dollars received and expended, and FTE's for the period February 17, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
The summary includes an overview of the total amount of awards and federal funds received for state transportation projects. Indiana got off to one of the quickest starts of any state in identifying and awarding highway stimulus projects. The state's individual transportation project reports were submitted as a part of the reporting but were not processed and are not reflected in the federal government's initial report. However, the individual project information has been posted on the state's Web page at this link: http://in.gov/gov/countyarra.htm
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