Nevada stimulus reports due

Nevada agencies face a Saturday deadline to file stimulus spending reports with the federal government, but it could be another three weeks before the information is available to the public, officials said.

Nevada's Web site on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending lists the various agencies and amounts they are to receive, which total $2.2 billion. But there are few specifics.

Only the Nevada Department of Transportation lists the number of jobs created so far - 339 - and has Web links to particular projects and costs.

Those types of details must be reported to the federal government by Saturday.

Nevada's stimulus director, Charles Harvey, said each state agency will submit its report independently. He said his office will get copies, but they will not be available for distribution until they are posted by the feds.

"We are not compiling a master list. We are only ensuring each agency is reporting on time," Harvey said this week.

State officials said earlier that Nevada reports would be available Oct. 10 after agencies posted them through a federal reporting site.

"The info is being submitted by dozens of agencies/-groups, (and) it is submitted in a variety of formats with different types of information," Dan Burns, spokesman for Gov. Jim Gibbons, said in an e-mail.

Those submissions, he said, will then be reviewed by Harvey and others, as well as federal officials, and be made available on the federal and state Web sites.

"The date keeps moving, but as of today, that date is some time during the first week of November," Burns said Thursday.