123STA T . 213 PUBLIC LA W 111 –5—FE B.1 7, 2 0 0 9(1)INGE NE RAL.—Notwi t hs t and in g an y oth erp ro v ision o fl aw , ea c h grant recipient shall s ubm it to the covered agency from which they received funding periodic reports on the use of the funds appropriated in this A ct for covered programs. S uch reports shall be collected and compiled by the covered agency and transmitted to C ongress. Covered agencies may develop such reports on behalf of grant recipients to ensure the accuracy and consistency of such reports. ( 2 )C O N T ENT S O FR E P ORTS.— F or amounts received under each covered program by a grant recipient under this Act, the grant recipient shall include in the periodic reports informa - tion trac k ing- (A) the amount of Federal funds appropriated, allo- cated, obligated, and outlayed under the appropriation
( B ) the number of pro j ects that have been put out to bid under the appropriation and the amount of Federal funds associated with such projects; (C) the number of projects for which contracts have been awarded under the appropriation and the amount of Federal funds associated with such contracts; ( D ) the number of projects for which work has begun under such contracts and the amount of Federal funds associated with such contracts; ( E ) the number of projects for which work has been completed under such contracts and the amount of Federal funds associated with such contracts; (F) the number of direct, on-project jobs created or sustained by the Federal funds provided for projects under the appropriation and, to the e x tent possible, the estimated indirect jobs created or sustained in the associated sup- plying industries, including the number of job-years created and the total increase in employment since the date of enactment of this Act; and ( G ) for each covered program report information tracking the actual aggregate expenditures by each grant recipient from State sources for projects eligible for funding under the program during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act through September 30 , 2010, as compared to the level of such expenditures that were planned to occur during such period as of the date of enactment of this Act. (3) TIM ING OF REPORTS.—Each grant recipient shall submit the first of the periodic reports re q uired under this subsection not later than 9 0 days after the date of enactment of this Act and shall submit updated reports not later than 1 8 0 days, 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years after such date of enactment. (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following definitions apply
(1) CO V ERE D AGEN CY .—The term ‘ ‘covered agency ’ ’ means the O ffice of the Secretary of Transportation, the Federal Avia- tion Administration, the Federal H ighway Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, the Federal Transit Adminis- tration and the M aritime Administration of the Department of Transportation. (2) COVERED P ROGRAM.—The term ‘‘covered program’’ means funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Supplemental Discre- tionary Grants for a National Surface Transportation System’’
