ARRA - Recovery Act

• Overview
• Report Card
• Research Highlights
• For Researchers
• ARRA FAQs
• ARRA Funding
• ARRA Reporting

Information for Faculty/Researchers

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has provided new funding opportunities for Cornell researchers and ARRA awards have additional and new reporting requirements. Use this page to identify Recovery Act funding opportunities, explore frequently asked questions about NSF and NIH stimulus funding, and learn what you must do to ensure compliance with ARRA reporting requirements.

ARRA Reporting

ARRA awards have additional and different business requirements as set forth by the ARRA. There are specific funds management requirements and reporting on all projects/programs funded with ARRA funds and it is critical that these requirements be met. The Federal government has developed a central reporting site for the submission of all required ARRA reporting (FederalReporting.gov). The Office of Sponsored Programs and the Division of Financial Affairs are coordinating the reporting for ARRA awards to the FederalReporting.gov system, in collaboration with other central administrative offices, colleges, departments, and Principal Investigators. All data required must be submitted in a consolidated manner, therefore reporting is being done centrally by institutions, not by individual award recipients. Cornell is already registered with the FederalReporting.gov system. Reports are required quarterly and include general, fiscal and technical information. All information will be made publicly available on the federal reporting website www.recovery.gov.

ARRA Reporting Schedule

• Date due at Cornell: This is the internal Cornell due date (by close of business).
• Date to be submitted by Cornell: This is the date that Cornell central administrative offices must submit quarterly ARRA reports to FederalReporting.gov.
• Federal due date: This is the date that all quarterly reports are due to FederalReporting.gov.

ARRA Reporting Guidelines for Principal Investigators

What are the data elements required for ARRA reporting and who is going to report this information?

There are many data elements required for ARRA reporting. All data will be reported to FederalReporting.gov by an ARRA Reporting Specialist, working in collaboration with the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), Sponsored Financial Services, other central administrative offices and department administrators, with the goal of minimizing the burden on researchers.

PIs are responsible for providing OSP only technical information and project status information, but we may also need to ask PIs and department administrators to provide information about jobs created and retained if we cannot gather this from another source.

What technical information needs to be reported by PIs?

The project-specific technical information includes: Award Description, Project Status, Quarterly Activities/ Project Description and the Primary Place of Performance of the Project. This includes the technical information you and your Co-PIs generate, and any technical information generated by your collaborators at other institutions if you have any (e.g., subrecipients). These data elements are defined as follows:

1. Award Description: (4,000 characters or less); A description of the overall purpose and expected results of the award and subaward(s) including significant deliverables. You should be able to obtain this information from your proposal abstract. If you receivd an ARRA award from the NSF, you can reuse the information contained in "Abstract at Time of Award" that is displayed publicly on the website www.Research.gov. For ARRA awards from the NIH, include the project abstract as provided by the HHS Readiness Tool/NIH RePORTER tool: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm, public health relevance statement, or other text that may be more informative to the public. For summer research experience supplements, provide a sentence such as, "This grant provided a summer research experience(s) for (insert "X" number of high school student(s), college student(s), science educator(s), etc.) in health-related scientific research." For administrative supplements, do not use the abstract from the parent grant, rather create a description of the purpose of the supplement.
2. Project Status: Select one of the four choices:
   1. Not started
   2. Less than 50% completed
   3. Completed 50% or more
   4. Fully completed
3. Quarterly Activities/ Project Description: (2,000 characters or less); Supplemental information, as the project progresses. Brief statements such as the following are suitable.
   • Personnel in place;
   • Research underway; and /or
   • Equipment purchased and/or installed.
4. Primary Place of Performance of the Project: If it is not Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, please provide: Name of location (e.g., Shoals Marine Lab), City, State, Zip Code, Country.

Note:

• There may be additional project-specific information that PIs will need to review or provide, depending on award terms and conditions. Sponsors can add additional reporting requirements at any time.
• Please be aware that all reported information will be publicly available on www.recovery.gov.

When do PIs report technical information?

The federal government requires that institutions report quarterly. To meet these set deadlines, OSP requests that PIs send their technical information to arra@cornell.edu 5 business days in advance of the date that we are required to submit it to the federal government (see "Reporting Schedule"). The first reporting period covers activities from February 17, 2009 through September 30, 2009. If your ARRA award was not active as early as February 17, 2009, then use your award effective data as the beginning date for the first reporting period. All awards issued on or before September 30, 2009, should be reported even if there is no activity to report.

Where do PIs send technical information?

A special emailbox has been created for ARRA reporting at Cornell. This email address is arra@cornell.edu.

In what format do PIs send technical information?

Technical information should be sent to arra@cornell.edu as an attached Word document file only. Please name the Word document file with the last name of the PI and the OSP # assigned to the award (e.g., Smith 54801). Please also put this same information in the Subject of your email message (e.g., Subject: Smith 54801). Information must be provided in the same order as the data elements identified above (#1 through #4). You must stay within the character limit for the Award Description and the Quarterly Activities/Project Description.

• Home
• CUinfo
• uPortal
• Emergency Info
• Operating Status
• Weather

• For Media
• For Faculty and Staff
• Site Info
• Feedback
• Help
• Contact