FEMA may provide PA funding for cleaning and disinfection in excess of the applicant’s regularly budgeted costs, done in accordance with CDC guidance or that of an appropriate public health official available at the time the work was completed. To be eligible, costs must be, among other requirements, directly tied to the performance of eligible work, reasonable and necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and adequately documented. The Clean Harbor invoices contain generic work descriptions such as “Decon of Equipment” and “miscellaneous hand tools,” and generic labor descriptions like “foreman” with no accompanying detail that do not demonstrate the costs were directly tied to eligible work or reasonable and necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The costs associated with the claimed cleaning and disinfection work performed by Environmental Restoration are not in excess of the regularly budgeted costs.

The Applicant has not demonstrated that the Clean Harbor contract costs were directly tied to the performance of eligible work or reasonable and necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Environmental Restoration contract costs are also not eligible as the Applicant has not demonstrated these were in excess of the Applicant’s regularly budgeted costs. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

Stafford Act § 403. 44 C.F.R. §§ 206.223(a)(1), 206.225(a)(3)(i). PAPPG, at 19, 21-22, and 57. O&O Policy, at 3-5. City of Biloxi, FEMA-4528-DR-MS, at 5; Simpson College, FEMA-4483-DR-IA, at 4; Hillsborough County, FEMA-4486-DR-FL, at 6.