Why isn’t FEMA exploring other opportunities to simplify the application process, such as raising the simplified procedures threshold?
• FEMA is exploring all avenues to simplify the PA application process in the COVID-19 environment. Ideas can be submitted through FEMA’s regional offices or the feedback button in the upper right-hand corner of PA Grants Portal.
• FEMA will make continuing adjustments to streamline and provide more timely assistance. • FEMA is trying to balance the need for changes to scale to the unpreceded nature of COVID-19 with not making too many changes in a complex response environment.
• Raising the simplified procedures threshold (also called the small project maximum or large project threshold) would not simplify the process to award assistance because simplified procedures mainly simplify post-award processes. FEMA is targeting reducing the documentation burden, as analysis shows this is the driver of preaward complexity and timeliness.
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