FEMA may provide assistance to restore the integral ground that supports an eligible facility if the facility is located on a slope and is damaged as a result of a landslide or slope instability triggered by the incident. Here, the Applicant has not demonstrated that either a landslide or slope instability triggered by the disaster damaged the Facility. An item of work must be required as a direct result of the disaster to be eligible for Public Assistance (PA) funding. It is the Applicant’s responsibility to demonstrate that the damage is disaster-related. Here, the Applicant has not substantiated its claim that the adjacent embankment and rip rap repair work is required as the direct result of the declared incident.

The Applicant has neither demonstrated that a landslide or slope instability triggered by the incident caused the damage to the Facility, nor that the requested adjacent embankment and rip rap repairs are required due to the disaster. Accordingly, work to restore the embankment and rip rap is ineligible for PA funding. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

Stafford Act § 406(a)(1)(A). 44 C.F.R. § 206.206(a), 206.223(a)(1). PAPPG, at 19-20, 128, 133. Grand Strand Water & Sewer, FEMA-4286-DR-SC, at 3.