FEMA may reimburse the local government for extraordinary costs for essential employees who are called back to duty during administrative leave to perform eligible emergency work. FEMA finds the requested costs were incurred to pay the straight- or regular-time salaries and benefits of permanently budgeted personnel performing emergency work and not for extraordinary costs for essential employees called back to duty during administrative leave to perform eligible emergency work.

The claimed FAL costs are related to straight-time hours worked by the Applicant’s budgeted employees. They are neither associated with overtime labor costs nor are they extraordinary costs for essential employees called back to work during administrative leave to perform eligible emergency work. Therefore, they are ineligible for PA funding. Accordingly, this appeal is denied.

Stafford Act § 403(a) 44 C.F.R. §§ 206.225(a), 206.223(a)(1), 206.228(a)(2)(iii) PAPPG, at 69, 71. Cuyahoga Community College, FEMA-4507-DR-OH, at 3, Broward Cnty. School Dist., FEMA-4283-DR-FL, at 3.