Applicants have 60 days from the date of the first substantive meeting with FEMA to identify and report all damage and submit all costs for disaster-related funding. FEMA may extend the deadline if the recipient submits a request in writing with justification based on extenuating circumstances beyond the recipient’s or applicant’s control. FEMA held the Recovery Scoping Meeting, on April 29, 2020 but later extended all deadlines for reporting damage to October 31, 2020. The Applicant states that it could not identify damages until after August 2020, due to COVID-19 complications, but that would have still left two months to identify and report damage to Building #2 before the extended deadline expired. Here, the Applicant did not identify any damage until (at the earliest) the May 5, 2021 site inspection, and not in writing to FEMA until its June 9, 2021 request.

Neither the Applicant nor the Recipient have demonstrated extenuating circumstances beyond either’s control to justify the untimely identification and reporting of damage to Building #2. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

44 C.F.R. §§ 206.202(d)(ii), 206.202(f)(2). PAPPG at 134.