ARRA: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

1. ARRA: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 I have to report what to the Feds? Are you kidding me? Seriously?

2. And now our presentation

3. Sadly, the ventriloquist in the beaver suit will not be performing today. You will have to view the slideshow instead.

4. Every PI with ARRA Funding received a copy of this advisory. They also were extended an invitation to attend a meeting in Diplomacy 101 on September 16th to discuss the data elements that they will need to help our office complete for the first quarterly report due 10/10/2009 FederalReporting.gov.

5. Who has ARRA Funding at UAA? • NSF-PI von HippelAward DEB-0919234 Evolutionary Genomics of Rapid Adaptation in Threespine Stickleback • NSF- PI Burns Award ANT-0838892-Collaborative Research: Weddell seals as autonomous sensors of the winter oceanography of the Ross Sea • NSF-PI Welker/Co-PI Sullivan Award ARC-0909538-Collaborative Research: Environmental changes alter the carbon cycle of High Arctic ecosystems: shifts in the ages and sources of C02 and DOC • NSF-PI Sullivan Award ARC-0902184 Collaborative Research: The Changing Seasonality of Tundra Nutrient cycling: Implications for Ecosystem and Arctic System Functioning • NSF-PI Welker Award DBI 0923571 MRI Acquisition: Detecting and Monitoring Changes in the Arctic using Stable Isotope Techniques • NSF PI Welker/Co-PI Sullivan Award 0856728Collaborative Research: Sustaining and Amplifying the ITEX AON through automation and increased inter-disciplinarityof observations • NSF-Hanson Award ARC-0909244 Investigation of Upland Sites in the Central Aleutian Islands • NSF-Alessa/Co-PI Kliskey Award ARC-0856305 Bering Sea Sub Network: A Distributed Human Sensor Array to Detect Arctic Environmental Change • CNCS-Bell Agreement 09VPAK001- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Umbrella • NIH-Hinterberger Award 1R15HD060010-01-MRF4 Expression and Regulation in Xenopus

6. Pending ARRA Awards • HRSA-Pflaum-ARRA: Nursing Workforce Diversity Program • Award 1D1NHP15411-01-00 gives UAA authority on 9/3/2009 in the amount of $1,002,550.00 for this project • UAA must received LB&A approval prior to expending these HRSA funds-on the agenda for 9/28/09 • BHRS Dr. Patrick Dulin and Dr.Vivian Gonzalez Application NIH/NIDA 1 RC2 AA019422-01 (GO) • Request for Just-In-Time Information was answered on 9/14/2009 by Dr. White • Not officially funded but funding is likely based on the review of submitted documentation.

7. Section 1512 Quarterly Reporting • Requires recipients to submit a report to the agency not later than 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter. • ARRA Title I Part A guidance states: “first report is due no later than 10 days after the initial calendar quarter in which the State first receives Title I, Part A ARRA funds, or July 10, 2009” • OMB guidance states: initial statutory reporting deadline is October 10, 2009, with quarterly reports to be submitted by recipients 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter thereafter.

8. Section 1512 Quarterly Reporting • On April 1, 2009, the OMB published the data that would be required for Section 1512 reports in the Federal Register for comment. • Reporting elements include: • The total amount of Recovery funds received; • The amount of funds that were expended or obligated to projects or activities; • A detailed list of all projects or activities for which the Recovery funds were expended or obligated; and • Information on any subcontracts or subgrants awarded by the recipient that includes the data elements required to comply with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

9. I want to assure you that, to the maximum extent possible, ARRA funding will primarily be a function of our central administration office.  We will only involve the Principal Investigator when we cannot reliably provide the federal government with the required data.

10. Quarterly Activities/Project Description-PIwill need to supply this information to the Office of Research and Graduate Studies each quarter of the project

11. There are four choices. 1) Not started 2) Less than 50% completed 3) Completed 50% or more 4) Fully completed-This information must be provided by the Principal Investigator each quarter of the project. I’ll contact each PI for the progress for the quarter to be reported on the ARRA spreadsheet.

12. And I will need the PI to verify jobs created or retained • ‘‘Jobs or positions created’’ means those new positions created and filled, or previously existing unfilled positions that are filled, as a result of Recovery Act funding. • “Jobs or positions retained’’ means those previously existing filled positions that are retained as a result of Recovery Act funding. • This description may rely on job titles, broader labor categories, or the contractor’s existing practice for describing jobs as long as the terms used are widely understood and describe the general nature of the work; • (ii) An estimate of the number of jobs created and jobs retained in the United States and outlying areas. At a minimum, this estimate shall include any new positions created and any existing filled positions that were retained to support or carry out Recovery Act projects or activities managed directly by the recipient, and if known, by subrecipients. The number shall be expressed as ‘‘full-time equivalent’’ (FTE), calculated cumulatively as all hours worked divided by the total number of hours in a full-time schedule,asdefined by the recipient. For instance, two full-time employees and one part-time employee working half days would be reported as 2.5 FTE in each calendar quarter. • (iii) A job cannot be reported as both created and retained. As used in this instruction, United States means the 50 States and the District of Columbia, and outlying areas …..

13. Description of Jobs Created or Retained • A narrative description of the employment impact of the Recovery Act funded work. This narrative is cumulative for each calendar quarter and at a minimum, will address the impact on the recipient’s or federal contractor’s workforce (for grants and loans, recipients shall also include the impact on the workforces of sub recipients and vendors).

14. Description of Jobs Created or Retained

15. Job estimate example: • Assume that a recipient is preparing its first quarterly report and that the recipient’s Recovery Act funded work required two full-time employees and one part-time employee working half days for the • quarter. • Also assume that the recipient’s full-time schedule for the quarter is 520 hours (2080 hours in a work-year divided by 4). • To convert hours worked to number of FTE for the first quarterly report, aggregate all hours worked and divide by the number of hours in a fulltime schedule for the quarter. • In this example, full-time hours worked (520 hrs x 2 employees = 1040 hrs) + part-time hours worked (260 hrs) ÷ number of hours in a full-time schedule for the quarter (520 hrs) = 2.5 FTE reported in the first quarterly report. • Because jobs are reported cumulatively each quarter, this same number of FTE would be reported for the second quarter if the same number of employees worked the same number of hours.

16. Sub-recipients are non-Federal entities that are awarded Recovery funding through a legal instrument from the prime recipient to support the performance of any portion of the substantive project or program for which the prime recipient received the Recovery funding. The terms and conditions of the Federal award are carried forward to the sub-recipient. This sub-award could be in the form of a sub-grant or sub-contract, but it is not considered a “federal government contract,” as it is not awarded directly by a Federal agency. A sub-recipient may also be a prime recipient of other Federal awards directly from the Federal government. Vendors, for the purposes of this guidance are entities or individuals from which the prime recipient or sub-recipient procures goods or services needed to carry out the project or program. Vendors are not awarded funds by the same means as sub-recipients and are not subject to the terms and conditions of the federal financial assistance award. What is the difference between Sub-Recipients and Vendors? Sub Recipients support performance of a mission. Vendors provide products or services in support of the mission. For Vendors, data requirements are reduced. Prime Recipients may not delegate reporting to vendors.

17. And there are additional ARRA reporting elements if…. • If we have sub-recipients that UAA has issued a sub-award in an amount equal to or greater than $25,000, we will need the following information: • The name of the entity receiving the sub-award; • The amount of the sub-award; • The transaction type; • The North American Industry Classification System code or Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number; • Program source; • An award title descriptive of the purpose of each funding action; • The location of the entity receiving the award; • The primary location of performance under the award, including the city, State, congressional district, and country; and • A unique identifier of the entity receiving the award and of the parent entity of the recipient, should the entity be owned by another entity. • Responsibilities for Informing Sub-recipients • Recipients agree to separately identify to each sub-recipient, and document at the time of sub-award and at the time of disbursement of funds, the Federal award number, any special CFDA number assigned for ARRA purposes, and amount of ARRA funds. (2 CFR 215.26, 45 CFR 74.26, and 45 CFR 92.26) • If we have vendor agreements that we havepaidinonequarteran amount equal to or greater than $25,000, we will need the following information: • Award Number • Vendor Duns Number • Name of the Vendor • Vendor HQ Zip Code +4 • Product and Service Description • Payment Amount • Payments do not aggregate between reporting quarters for a specific vendor

18. Can’t get enough of ARRA? • Call Shelley Chapman at 786-1443 or e-mail her at anslc@uaa.alaska.edu. • Read more at www.recovery.gov • Check out the reporting templates at www.federalreporting.gov • See what other University officers are whining about at www.cogr.edu • www.whitehouse.gov/Recovery/WebinarTrainingMaterials/ to view a webinar • http://www.research.gov/rgov/anonymous.portal allows anyone to search for NSF or USDA awards by either institution or Principal Investigator’s name

19. ARRA Reporting Timeline • Prime Recipient Activities • Activities: • 1. REGISTER • Before end of Quarter - Register Online at FederalReporting.Gov • 2. REPORT • 1 – 10 days after end of Quarter: Create Report (enter reporting data) via: Web/Online Form • Online Web form (May be saved as Draft but requires formal submission) • Completed Recipient Reporting MS-Excel template • XML file conforming to Recipient Reporting XML Schema • No later than 10 days after the end of the quarter: Submit completed report (s) using any of these alternatives • 3. REVIEW SUB-RECIPIENT REPORT • 11 – 21 days after end of Quarter: Review report data submitted by Sub Recipients and provide comments for correction as needed • Previous versions will be retained by the system • 4. MAKE CORRECTIONS AS NECESSARY • 22-29 days after the end of Quarter: Be alert for potential Federal Agency notifications follow review • Report will be “unlocked” so corrections can be made • Agencies may identify issues with Prime or Sub Recipient reports. Reports from Sub Recipients will CC Prime Recipients