What information must I provide for the number of on-project and other direct jobs created or sustained by the federal funds provided?
You are only required to report the on-project and other direct job hours related to the ARRA funding you have expended as of the reporting cut-off date. The information requested is the total cumulative number of direct hours worked on the ARRA projects both by the grant recipient and by contractors and subcontractors at the local project sites. An example of a direct job is a worker employed to construct a facility or to maintain equipment on-site whose time is charged directly to the project. In the case of a transit vehicle purchase, direct job hours would be the time spent by the grant recipient’s employees in preparing specifications or conducting the procurement, if this time is charged to the ARRA grant. You are not asked to calculate, and should not report, indirect or induced job hours. An example of an indirect job is a worker who makes the steel or other construction materials used at the project site, or who manufactures a bus purchased by a transit authority using ARRA fu
