OMB Releases Guidance on Recovery Act Reporting

Yesterday (June 22) OMB released a new guidance memo [1] detailing recipient reporting under the Recovery Act.  The guidance also consists of two useful supplements, one on the programs subject to the reporting requirements [2], and another on the recipient reporting model [3].  We've been waiting for this guidance for a while now, and we'll have a more thorough analysis of it up later. 

In the meantime, you can brush up on reporting under the Recovery Act by reading the previous OMB guidance memos [4].  Also, you should check out the work the Coalition for an Accountable Recovery (of which OMB Watch is a member) has been doing on this subject, including two memos, one on a National System for Collection and Dissemination of Government Spending Data [5] and one on the Interim Recovery.gov Data Reporting Architecture [6], both of which outline the ideals we think Recovery.gov and Recovery reporting in general should embody.