The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued updated guidance on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the guidance can be found here.

This guidance covers a number of specific issues that have been raised by agencies, recipients, and others over the past few months.  The guidance is split into the following topics:

• Guidance on applicability of Recovery Act reporting requirements to Education Jobs Fund in Public Law No. 111-226
• Updated guidance on reporting procedures (e.g. non-compliance, recipient reporting extensions, paper reports, mark as final clarification, changes to prior reports)
• Changes for Federal contractors
• Improving transparency of narrative descriptions in recipient reporting (including changes to the Recipient Reporting Data Model)