Msnbc.com’s Web guide to the stimulus plan

A month after President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill into law, there is no central online portal where Americans can go to find out what the federal government and the 50 states plan to do.

The Obama administration did set up Recovery.gov, touting the program’s accountability and transparency. But information on the site is incomplete — it links to the individual stimulus Web sites of only about two dozen federal agencies, and its map linking to omnibus state sites includes only slightly more than half of the sites compiled in a review by msnbc.com.

Msnbc.com has put together two tools. The first is a state-by-state map with links to official state stimulus sites and tracking by the nonprofit group Stimulus Watch. The second is a list of 80 federal agencies and departments that maintain stimulus sites.

A dedicated link to each collection can be found below it.

Msnbc.com queried all 50 states for home pages or database portals devoted specifically to the stimulus plan. The results are presented in the following state-by-state map, which links to each state’s official stimulus site, if it has one, or to the site maintained by the highest-ranking government office. The map also also includes a link tracking each state’s stimulus projects as compiled by Stimulus Watch, a nonprofit group organized by scholars at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

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To compile the box of federal links, msnbc.com repeated the process for major programs and agencies in all 15 Cabinet departments. “Promo” pages are not included — only those agencies offering significant information or user interactivity are presented.

Federal stimulus Web sites Numerous federal departments and agencies have set up Web pages devoted to implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: General sites • Recovery.gov (official Obama administration umbrella site) • Grants.gov ARRA database (search for available stimulus grants) Agencies • Advisory Council on Historic Preservation • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality • Agriculture Department • AmeriCorps • Chief Human Capital Officers Council • Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds • Commerce Department • Community Development Block Grants • Community Health Center Grant Program • Congressional Budget Office • Corporation for National and Community Service • Defense Department • Education Department • Emergency Food Assistance Program • Employment and Training Administration • Employee Benefits Security Administration • Energy Department • Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program • Environmental Protection Agency • EPA Brownfields Program • Federal Aviation Administration • Federal Communications Commission • Federal Highway Administration • Federal Railroad Administration • Federal Transit Authority • Federal Trade Commission • Food and Nutrition Service • Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations • General Services Administration • Government Accountability Office • Health and Human Services Department • Health Resources and Services Administration • Homeland Security Department • Homelessness Prevention Fund • Housing and Urban Development (-- HUD breakdown by state) • Individuals With Disabilities Education Program • Interagency Council on Homelessness • Interior Department • Internal Revenue Service • Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force • Justice Department • Justice Assistance Grant Program • Labor Department • Medicaid • National Aeronautics and Space Administration • National Cancer Institute • National Center for Research Resources • National Endowment for the Arts • National Eye Institute • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases • National Institute of Standards and Technology • National Institute on Drug Abuse • National Institutes of Health • National Resources Conservation Service • National School Lunch Program • National Science Foundation • Neighborhood Stabilization Program • Office for Victims of Crime • Office of Affordable Housing Preservation • Office of Justice Programs • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention • Office of Personnel Management • Office on Violence Against Women • Railroad Retirement Board • Securities and Exchange Commission • Small Business Administration • Smithsonian Institution • Social Security Administration • State Department • State Fiscal Stabilization Fund School Modernization Program • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program • Transportation Department • Treasury Department • U.S. Forest Service • U.S. Maritime Administration • Veterans Affairs Department • Women, Infants and Children Program msnbc.com research/Alex Johnson

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