Work Eligibility by Type of Facility

• Common EHP laws: NEPA, NHPA, Coastal Zone Management Act, Coastal Barrier Resources Act, ESA, Clean Water Act, EOs 11988 and 11990, and possible local NFIP requirements.
• Eligible (Category B): emergency protective measures for an immediate threat, including bracing, shoring, barricades, safety fencing, sandbagging, and emergency repairs or stabilization.
• Work performed under urgent circumstances that restores the facility’s pre-disaster design and function under codes and standards is permanent work, not emergency work.
• Not eligible (Category G): restoring federally constructed beaches or shoreline protection; PNP parks and recreational facilities, including supporting roads, buildings and utilities; natural, unimproved features; destroyed crops; and private and homeowners’ association beaches or dunes.
• Restoration of engineered beaches is subject to specific eligibility criteria in Chapter 8. For general Category G eligibility of public parks and recreational facilities, see Chapter 8.

Records showing beaches or shoreline features were engineered and maintained, and documentation of supporting facilities such as roads, buildings and utilities within parks.

• Covers water storage, treatment and delivery; power generation, transmission, distribution and storage (including natural gas, wind turbines, generators, substations and lines); sewage collection and treatment; and communication systems.
• Common EHP laws: NEPA, NHPA, ESA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, EOs 11988 and 11990, and possible local NFIP requirements.
• Labor: for debris removal and permanent work, straight time and overtime are eligible for both budgeted and unbudgeted labor. For emergency protective measures, only overtime is eligible for budgeted labor; both are eligible for unbudgeted labor.
• Utilities are eligible for mitigation and codes and standards upgrades.
• Inspection of inaccessible structures or components is eligible only when there is evidence of damage, such as sunken ground above a water pipeline.

Labor records separating budgeted and unbudgeted staff and straight time from overtime; evidence of damage for inaccessible components (such as sunken ground over a pipeline); and conductor replacement analysis where applicable.

• Contents include furnishings, equipment, consumable supplies, files, records, research contents, animals, irreplaceable collections and objects, library books and publications.
• Contents may be replaced with different items used for the same general purpose, but eligible funding is capped at the estimated cost of equivalent items.
• Irreplaceable items are eligible for condition assessment, stabilization and treatment; replacement of rare books, collections or objects is not.
• Research contents and animals are ineligible for replacement if no comparable item or animal is available at a reasonable cost.

An inventory of damaged contents with age and condition, replacement pricing for comparable used or new items, and records of stabilization and treatment for irreplaceable items.

• Common EHP laws: NEPA, NHPA, Clean Air Act, ESA, EOs 11988 and 11990.
• Mud and silt removal needed to restore the facility is permanent work (Category E) and must be done with the restoration.
• Demolition may not be eligible if securing the structure and area is enough to protect the public.
• Earthquake frame repair to pre-earthquake design under FEMA 352 Chapter 6 is eligible only if FEMA approves a specific scope before the work; related architectural finishes and fire retardants are also eligible.
• Restoration: provide construction dates; check historic register listings; identify floodplain location (1% chance, or 0.2% for critical actions); consider building, roof and system age and maintenance to separate disaster damage from pre-existing damage; comply with required codes.
• Public housing authority facilities are eligible for permanent work only if Congress does not appropriate HUD funds for emergency capital needs for the facility.

Construction dates of all buildings in the project; National or state historic register status; floodplain status; age and maintenance records for the roof and building systems; mold sampling results; and, for earthquake frame repairs, FEMA’s approved scope before work begins.

• Covers dams and reservoirs, irrigation and water conveyances, aqueducts, drainage channels, sediment and debris basins, stormwater basins, coastal shoreline protection, flood control works, and navigational and shipping channels.
• Stormwater drainage built with road projects inside the right-of-way is Category C, not D.
• Common EHP laws: NEPA, NHPA, ESA, Clean Water Act, EOs 11988 and 11990; waterway work usually needs a Section 404 permit.
• Debris rules differ for navigable and non-navigable waterways. Separate incident debris from pre-existing debris and debris from other incidents.
• The Corps of Engineers can do flood fighting but cannot reimburse applicants for their own flood fighting.
• A waiver for ineligible work requires FEMA’s Assistant Administrator for Recovery.

Maintenance records showing the facility was engineered and maintained; evidence separating incident debris from pre-existing sediment; and documentation of whether another federal agency (such as the Corps of Engineers) has authority over the facility.

• Applies to roads (surface, base, shoulders, ditches, guardrails, lighting, signs, sidewalks), drainage structures (culverts, low-water crossings) and bridges (decking, piers, girders, abutments, slope protection, approaches).
• Common EHP laws: NEPA, NHPA, ESA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, EOs 11988 and 11990. Work in waterways usually needs a Corps Section 404 permit and may involve local NFIP requirements.
• Debris: separate incident debris from debris from other recent events and household waste.
• Emergency access on private property: obtain rights-of-entry and agreements to indemnify and hold the federal government harmless.
• Permanent work: separate minor incident damage from age, traffic and frequent rain damage; provide construction dates for culverts and nearby structures; H&H studies are required if replacing a culvert with a differently sized structure.
• A waiver for ineligible work requires FEMA’s Assistant Administrator for Recovery.

Construction dates for culverts and nearby structures; maintenance records to separate disaster damage from age and wear; H&H studies if changing culvert size; and rights-of-entry and hold-harmless agreements for any work on private roads.

• Table 39 lists the PAPPG sections that apply to all facilities and when each applies (see table).
• EHP review covers all work, including ground disturbance for staging areas, access roads, parking, landscaping, grading or utilities.
• The 50 percent rule is an early decision on whether to repair or replace; it is not a full calculation of all eligible costs.
• A policy waiver for any ineligible work in the facility tables requires approval from FEMA’s Assistant Administrator for Recovery.

Varies by facility type; see the facility-specific topics in this appendix.