What EHP issues come up with permanent repairs, and what happens to the old facility in an alternate project?

• Higher-risk permanent work examples: upsizing culverts, replacing or relocating a bridge, changes to historic buildings, rebuilding boardwalks or piers, relocating or burying utility lines, beach renourishment, relocating to undisturbed land, repairing substantially damaged structures in the floodplain, and new facilities.
• Original facility: for alternate and alternative procedures projects, if you don’t repair, replace or sell the damaged facility and it is unsafe, you must make it safe and secure (restrict access, lock it, fence it) or demolish it.
• Salvage proceeds reduce capped funding by the value of salvaged materials, less the cost to demolish, grade or secure.
• If PA funds pay for work at the original site, FEMA reviews it for EHP. If not, you must coordinate with SHPO/THPO, Fish and Wildlife, NMFS or the Corps as needed, document it, and consider their recommended measures, at your own cost unless directly related to restoring disaster damage.
• A facility kept for later use stays eligible in future incidents only if you repaired it to current codes, completed required mitigation and maintained the required insurance.

For changes in size, location or alignment: design plans and any agency consultations. For alternate and alternative procedures projects that leave the original facility: documentation of coordination with SHPO/THPO, Fish and Wildlife, NMFS or the Corps of Engineers, and the agreed measures; or records showing the original facility was secured or demolished.