Today, as promised, the Recovery Board published the first round of recipient reports on Recovery.gov. As explained in our Watcher from yesterday, this first round is only the contracting information, which represents a small slice of total Recovery Act funding. The rest, in the form of grant and loan information, will be released on Oct. 30.

As we wait for tomorrow's recipient reports to be published, some news articles are starting to leak out state by state. For those looking to get a sneak peak of what's happening in their state, many of the state agencies in charge of collecting recipient information at the state and local level have given previews to local papers. The Recovery Board itself, though, which is charged with publishing the recipient reports, is keeping mum and sticking to the Oct. 15 publishing date, so finding national level statistics is difficult. In an early morning press release, however, the Recovery Board released one tiny piece of useful information. According to the Board, so far, over 112,000 recipients have submitted data reports to FederalReporting.gov, the reporting site which feeds Recovery.gov.