A natural feature may itself be an eligible facility if it is improved and maintained. The Applicant has not demonstrated there are improvements to the embankments themselves that required maintenance on a regular schedule to ensure that the improvement performed as designed. FEMA may approve PA funding for the restoration of the integral ground that supports an eligible facility damaged by the disaster. The Applicant has not substantiated that an eligible facility purportedly supported by the embankments was damaged as a direct result of the disaster. FEMA is authorized to provide Public Assistance funding for emergency work which must be done immediately to eliminate or lessen immediate threats, if the declared incident caused the immediate threat to exist. The Applicant did not demonstrate that the embankments’ condition posed an immediate threat caused by the declared incident.

The Applicant did not demonstrate that the embankments are eligible facilities, or integral ground that supports an eligible facility damaged by the disaster, or that the work to restore the embankments is eligible as emergency work. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

Stafford Act §§ 403(a), 406(a)(1)(A), 406(e)(1). 44 C.F.R. §§ 206.201(b), 206.206(a), 206.221(c), 206.223(a)(1), 206.225(a)(3), 206.226. PAPPG, at 51-52, 55-56, 63-64, 97, 110, 140, 145, 176, 181, 214. Paintsville Utilities, FEMA-4595-DR-KY, at 3.