FEMA may extend the deadline for submitting an RPA when the grantee justifies and makes a request for such extension in writing. Justification must be based on extenuating circumstances beyond the applicant’s or grantee’s control. Both the Applicant and Grantee assert that reduced in-person communication due to the COVID-19 Pandemic led to confusion and, ultimately, the untimely RPA submission. However, confusion on the Applicant’s part does not constitute extenuating circumstances beyond its or the Grantee’s control.

Neither the Applicant nor the Grantee have demonstrated that extenuating circumstances beyond either party’s control impacted the submission of the RPA for FEMA-4542-DR-SC. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

44 C.F.R. § 206.202(b)-(c), (f)(2). PAPPG, at 130. N. Miami Beach Med. Ctr., FEMA-4337-DR-FL, at 3. Kapoho Kai Water Ass’n, FEMA-4366-DR-HI, at 2-3.