Recipient Reporting

The Recovery Act clearly states, "every taxpayer dollar spent on our economic recovery must be subject to unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability." In accordance with this objective, Section 1512(c) of the Recovery Act established a quarterly reporting requirement that applies to recipients of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), the Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS Office), and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Recovery Act awards. Quarterly Section 1512 (c) reports must be submitted through https://www.FederalReporting.gov. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) encourages all prime recipients and delegated subrecipients to register as soon as possible. Registration may take up to 8 business days to complete. To register, a recipient must have a DUNS number and be registered in the Central Contractor Registration.

Department of Justice Guidance and Helpful Tools

The Department of Justice has developed various guidance documents and tools to assist Recovery Act recipients in meeting their reporting requirements.

December 30, 2009 Webinar

Presentation Slides - Recipients may download and print the presentation slides to use for notes

Webinar Recording - Recipient may view the recorded version of the webinar.

December 17, 2009 Webinar

Presentation Slides - Recipients may download and print the presentation slides to use for notes

Webinar Recording - Recipient may view the recorded version of the webinar.

Support for Report Submission

Calculating Jobs Data

Please refer to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-10-08, Updated Guidance on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act- Data Quality, Non-Reporting Recipients, and Reporting Job Estimates published on December 18, 2009.

Part 2 of this Memorandum, Replacement of Section 5 of M-09-21, updates the guidance for jobs data reporting. The updated guidance reflects an important change and simplification to the manner in which job estimates are calculated and reported. Recipients will now report job estimates on a quarterly, rather than cumulative, basis. Recipients will report job estimate totals by dividing the hours worked in the reporting quarter (i.e., the most recent quarter) by the hours in a full-time schedule in that quarter. A second important change is in the definition of a job created or retained. The updated guidance defines jobs created or retained as those funded in the quarter by the Recovery Act.

OJP has created a jobs calculation tool to assist recipients in reporting job data. Jobs Calculator.

Department of Justice Recovery Websites