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Article: Latest OMB stimulus reporting rules don't require public raw data.(Office of Management and Budget)
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- June 23, 2009
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Byline: Aliya Sternstein
When the Office of Management and Budget released guidance on Monday for how fund recipients should report stimulus spending, absent was a requirement to make raw data public. The White House likely has reduced transparency with this omission, some open government activists say.
OMB's policy refined specifications it issued on April 3, partially by creating a data collection portal at FederalReporting.gov and doing away with certain data formatting requirements.
Organizations that receive stimulus funds will have three options for submitting spending reports to OMB: They can fill out a form on FederalReporting.gov; ...