ARPA Reporting
All NEU municipalities in Oklahoma that accepted ARPA funds are required to report every year by the deadline of April 30th until April 30, 2027 as pg. 18 of the ARPA Project and Expenditure Report User Guide explains. If you are unsure if your municipality is an NEU, a complete list of all of the NEU’s and the funds they have received from the ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery funds is found on the state of Oklahoma’s Website here. The U.S. Treasury’s reporting portal opens on April 1st for NEU’s and the deadline to submit the report is by April 30, 2025. If your municipality has spent all of the ARPA NEU funds, you will still need to login and report to indicate nothing has changed since the last report. If your municipality has not spent all of the ARPA funds, as a reminder, the deadline to obligate the funds was December 31st of 2024. The deadline to expend the funds is December 31st of 2026. As FAQ 13. 17 from the U.S. Treasury mentions, an obligation is an order placed for property and services, contracts and subawards made, and similar transactions that require payment. All funds that were not obligated, used on payroll, or on a memorandum of understanding must be returned to the treasury. If you are obligating the funds on payroll under the revenue loss category 6.1, you must estimate the amount that you anticipate to use toward personnel costs through the expenditure period and report that estimate to Treasury as FAQ 17.7 and Pg. 112 of the project and expenditure report explains.
ARPA Reporting Portal
The Treasury’s ARPA reporting portal is accessed at this link: https://portal.treasury.gov/compliance
Updating the Point of Contact for reporting:
If you need to update the point of contact for reporting and you or someone from your municipality has access to login, follow the steps on Pages 87-93 of the Project and Expenditure Report User Guide here: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/January-2025-PE-Report-User-Guide.pdf.
If the original point of contact is no longer available or if you cannot log in to the report after trying the steps in the user guide, send an e-mail to SLFRF@Treasury.gov to make the request to be added as a new Point of Contract. The email should include the information about the municipality as well as the full name, title, email and phone number of the new authorized representative. The Treasury should respond with the instructions and the account identifier for login.gov access as the self service resource 3.8 explains.
Once you are registered and can access the Treasury Portal with the account identifier information (and verified zip code) you should be able to view all required compliance reports. If you are still experiencing access issues your contact role may need to be linked to the SLFRF profile, please email COVIDITrelief@treasury.gov with your request, and include screenshots where possible, of the trouble you are experiencing.
If you do not receive a response to your emails in a couple days, call the treasury as soon as possible at 844-529-9527.
To access the report after the Treasury adds the new person as the account administrator, you will need to create an account. The steps in this video describe the process to create an account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCWiluZX4bc
ARPA Reporting Walkthrough and Office Hours
The Step-by-Step reporting walkthrough video from the U.S treasury can be accessed here: ARPA Simplified Yearly Reporting Video From U.S. Treasury. If you have any ARPA reporting or uses questions, Oklahoma Municipal league will be having a virtual reporting walkthrough and office Hour April 1st, 2025 from 1pm to 2pm and every Tuesday in April from 1pm to 2pm. During these office hour meetings, we will be walking through the mandatory yearly reporting step by step. If you have questions, you can unmute yourself or type a question in the chat box. The same virtual meeting below will be used every Tuesday in April. If you are not able to attend a virtual office hour and you have questions, watch the reporting videos below, fill out an inquiry at https://www.oml.org/inquiry or call OML at (405) 528 7515.
Reporting Walkthrough and Office Hours Virtual Meeting Information:
Microsoft Teams meeting
4/1/25, 4/11/25, 4/18/25, 4/25/25 @1pm
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OML ARPA Videos and Materials
April 4th 2023 ARPA Workshop Recording and Updated Materials
Contact OML at https://www.oml.org/inquiry or call OML at (405) 528 7515 with any questions.
The OML American Recovery Plan Act service provides information based on the guidance provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the state of Oklahoma. Each Oklahoma municipality is responsible for submitting and verifying the correct budget information, using ARPA funds correctly, and submitting a project and expenditure report every year in April until 2026. The advice of a municipal attorney, as a legal advisor, should be followed before making any decision regarding accepting, spending, or reporting on ARPA funds.