When is debris removal eligible for FEMA funding?

• Debris includes vegetation, construction and demolition debris, sand, mud, silt, gravel, rocks, white goods, and vehicle and vessel wreckage. Snow is not debris.
• Debris on improved public property and public rights-of-way, including federal-aid roads, is eligible. So is residential debris that residents were authorized to move to the right-of-way, for a limited period.
• Commercial debris placed on the right-of-way is not eligible, nor is debris from construction or renovation work.
• For private nonprofits, debris removal is limited to their eligible facility.
• Debris removal from federally maintained navigable channels, agricultural land and natural, unimproved land is not eligible.
• Removing debris to restore an engineered facility’s capacity is permanent work, not Category A.

• Small projects: estimated or actual quantities removed, reduced, disposed and recycled by type; proof of monitoring if contracted; staging and disposal site locations and types; permits; and proof waterway debris isn’t pre-existing.
• Large projects: all of the above plus load tickets, photographs, tower logs, coordination with other agencies, quarantine-area disposal records, and threat documentation for hazardous trees, limbs and stumps.

Source: PAPPG Table 21.