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impact. While no change is being made to the actual information required to be reported, <br />the clarification that this information will be collected in two separate fields — one <br />numeric and a text field for the narrative — is an update from previous Recovery Act <br />guidance. <br />• A job created is a new position created and filled or an existing unfilled position that is <br />filled as a result of the Recovery Act; a job retained is an existing position that would not <br />have been continued to be filled were it not for Recovery Act funding. A job cannot be <br />counted as both created and retained. Also, only compensated employment in the United <br />States or outlying areas should be counted. See 74 FR 14824 for definitions. <br />• The estimate of the number of jobs required by the Recovery Act should be expressed as <br />"full -time equivalents" (FTE), which is calculated as total hours worked in jobs created <br />or retained divided by the number of hours in a full -time schedule, as defined by the <br />recipient (see Section 5.3 for more information). The FTE estimates must be reported <br />cumulatively each calendar quarter. <br />• Recipients of grants, cooperative agreements, and loans must include in the aggregate <br />number and their narrative description an estimate of jobs created and retained on <br />projects and activities managed by their funding recipients. This clarification is a change <br />from previous guidance, based on comments received on the Federal Register notice and <br />stakeholder input. For additional guidance on providing these estimates see Section 5.4. <br />• Recipients should not attempt to report on the employment impact on materials suppliers <br />and central service providers (so- called "indirect" jobs) or on the local community <br />( "induced" jobs). Employees who are not directly charged to Recovery Act supported <br />projects /activities, who, nonetheless, provide critical indirect support, e.g., <br />clerical/administrative staff preparing reports, institutional review board staff members, <br />departmental administrators, are NOT counted as jobs created/retained. Recipients report <br />only direct jobs because they may not have sufficient insight or consistent methodologies <br />for reporting indirect or induced jobs. The Council of Economic Advisers is developing <br />a macro - economic methodology to account for the overall employment impact of the <br />Recovery Act. <br />• The narrative should include a brief description of the types of jobs created or retained. <br />This description may rely on job titles, broader labor categories, or the recipient's <br />existing practice for describing jobs as long as the terms used are widely understood and <br />describe the general nature of the work. <br />• Recipients will report for all projects and activities or federally awarded contracts <br />regardless of whether they are funded in whole or in part by the Recovery Act, but should <br />report only on the jobs and funding attributable to an award under the Recovery Act. <br />Please note that certain recipients, such as those funded by Department of Transportation, have <br />job reporting requirements in the Act that go beyond Section 1512. Recipients must follow this <br />