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Today, the U.S. Government updated Recovery.gov, the Web site they use to track funding designated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Through the Web site, taxpayers may now view each fund recipient in their city and state and find out how they are using recovery funds.

The State of Texas was granted $16,880,053,426 in recovery funds in February. Of those, $4,321,561,394 has been paid out to date leaving $13,150,869,871 funds still available in forms of federal contracts, grants and loans, according to the site data. Data on the site was provided by federal agencies receiving Recovery Act funds.

Already we found discrepancies in the information provided - there is close to $12,558,492,032 funds still available in the State not $13,150,869,871 as the site states.

Here is a preliminary overview based on the information available for the Denton area by typing zip code 76201.

University of North Texas

Amount: $498,525
Award Description: Upgrading the NMR facilities at the University of North Texas.

Amount: $430,000
Award Description: CAREER: Fundamental Insights into Deformation of Lightweight Alloys from Discovery-Class Atomistic Simulations

Amount: $249,265
Award Description: II-EN: Infrastructure Acquisition for Statistical Power, Leakage, and Timing Modeling Towards Realization of Robust Complex Nanoelectronic Circuits

Amount: $231,431
Award Description: Gravitational Force Spectroscopy of Single Myosin Molecules

Amount: $150,000
Award Description: US-Chile IRES: Integrating Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics for Biocultural Conservation in the Temperate Sub-Antarctic Region of Southwest

Texas Woman's University

Amount: $2,972,729
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $336,688
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $74,223
Award Description: CAMPUS-BASED /FWS

Amount: $35,157
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $27,729
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $24,010
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $2,457
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $2,366
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Amount: $0
Award Description: CAMPUS-BASED /FWS

Amount: $0
Award Description: GRANT PROGRAM

Denton Independent School District

Amount: $94,923
Award Description: HEAD START

Denton County Sheriff's Office

Amount: $368,482
Award Description: FY 2009 Recovery Act JAG Program

After October 15, 2009, the Recovery.gov will provide recipient data and will include grants and loans provided to each recipient on October 30.