FEMA PA Resource Navigator
Use this resource path when a disaster required immediate action to protect life, public health, safety, improved property, essential public services, or required debris removal from public property, roads, waterways, private property, or other impacted areas.
Start with the card that best matches the emergency action or debris issue. Emergency Protective Measures and Debris Removal have different FEMA PA resource paths, documentation needs, eligibility risks, and project organization issues.
Category B work generally addresses immediate threats to life, public health, safety, improved property, access, and essential public services.
Emergency actions taken to protect lives, public health, safety, access, and essential community services immediately after the disaster.
Temporary work performed to reduce immediate threats to improved property, prevent further damage, or stabilize unsafe conditions before permanent repairs.
Temporary facilities, relocations, or emergency service arrangements used to keep essential public services functioning after a facility could not operate.
Emergency protective work involving private property, demolition, access control, or other actions that may require additional eligibility review and documentation.
Category A work generally addresses eligible debris removal, clearance, hauling, monitoring, reduction, and disposal activities needed because of the declared incident.
Debris removal from public roads, streets, rights-of-way, shoulders, sidewalks, drainage paths, and access routes needed for public safety and community access.
Debris removal from public buildings, parks, campuses, public works sites, public grounds, and other applicant-owned or maintained property.
Debris located in rivers, streams, drainage channels, canals, culverts, outfalls, or waterways where removal may be needed to address an immediate threat.
Debris removal from private non-commercial property, where eligibility generally requires additional public-interest, threat, access, and approval considerations.
Debris removal involving commercial property, business sites, industrial areas, or mixed-use locations where eligibility may require special review and documentation.
Debris removal from private roads, gated roads, association roads, or other non-public access routes where eligibility depends on threat, access, and public interest.
Debris that may require special handling, environmental controls, segregation, disposal documentation, monitoring, or technical review.
Records needed to support debris quantities, collection, hauling, reduction, disposal, monitoring, contracts, force account work, and cost eligibility.