Government Web site needs repair

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Revamping the U.S. government Web site, Recovery.gov, could cost $9.5 million to $18 million and take five years, the General Services Administration said.

The site was designed to help taxpayers determine where the $797 billion stimulus funding passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama this year is going. The federal government has received complaints about the efficacy of the site.

"One of our principal issues is that after the money changes hands twice, it disappears. It goes, U.S., state government, state agency, contractor -- black hole," Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a national policy resource center, told ABC News.

OMB (Office of Management and Budget) Watch, a group often critical of government spending, questions the cost of repairing the site.

"They already have a large data set to work with. What Recovery.gov will do -- and whether they need $9.5 million to do this, I don't know -- is display it," spokesman Craig Jennings said.