FEMA may provide assistance for force account labor costs that are directly tied to the performance of eligible work and adequately documented. FEMA may reimburse extraordinary costs (such as call back pay and hazardous duty pay) for essential employees who are called back to duty during administrative leave to perform eligible emergency work. The administrative record does not support the requested force account labor costs are tied to the performance of eligible work nor that the employees were called back from administrative leave. Therefore, the costs are not reimbursable under Public Assistance. FEMA may provide assistance for contract costs that are directly tied to the performance of eligible work and adequately documented. The administrative record does not support the requested contract.

FEMA finds that the claimed force account labor costs were not tied to the performance of eligible emergency work or extraordinary costs for employees called back from administrative leave to perform eligible emergency work. The Applicant has also not demonstrated that the work associated with the claimed contract costs was required as a result of damage caused by the disaster; nor that the work was an eligible emergency protective measure. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

Stafford Act § 403(a). 2 C.F.R. § 200.403(g). 44 C.F.R. §§ 206.223(a), 206.225(a), 206.228(a)(2)(iii). PAPPG, at 64, 65, 69-71. Broward County School District, FEMA-4283-DR-FL (Oct. 11, 2019).