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).
Last week the Obama administration released the final definitions of nearly 100 data elements that must be reported regarding stimulus spending.
As the first reporting deadline approaches, public officials are confronting the task of providing unprecedented visibility into how ARRA funds are spent and what value they deliver.
In a July 20 webcast, Danny Werfel, deputy controller of the OMB's Federal Financial Management Office, said states -- which are considered the "prime recipients" of stimulus funds -- have full responsibility for reporting ARRA expenditure data. But states also can delegate some of that reporting work to the subrecipients, such as local governments.
