To be eligible for PA funding, work must be required as a result of the declared incident. It is the applicant’s responsibility to demonstrate that the incident directly caused the claimed damage and, where pre-existing damage exists, distinguish it from the disaster-related damage. The Applicant’s predisaster maintenance records demonstrate activities such as ditch cleaning and removing weeds and snow for Gas Fork Road. However, the Applicant did not submit inspection reports, maintenance work orders, engineer assessments, or predisaster images, that could assist FEMA in distinguishing between pre-existing damage or deterioration, from damage caused by the disaster. The post-disaster imagery does not show that the embankment that supports Gas Fork Road was compromised. As a result, the Applicant has not substantiated the claimed damages were a direct result of the disaster.

FEMA finds that the Applicant has not demonstrated that work to repair the Gas Fork Road or its embankment was required as a result of the disaster.

Stafford Act § 406(a)(1)(A). 44 C.F.R. § 206.223(a)(l). PAPPG, at 51-52, 63-64, 169-170, 181. Escambia Cnty., FEMA-4564-DR-FL, at 3.