Short answer
Measures before, during and after the incident are eligible if they eliminate or lessen immediate threats to life, public health or safety, or cost-effectively prevent significant additional damage to improved property. FEMA may require an official certification of the threat.
Eligible measures include, among others:
- Saving lives and protecting health and safety: pre-positioning resources, flood fighting, emergency operations centers, emergency access, supplies and commodities, medical care and transport, evacuation and sheltering, childcare for shelters, safety inspections, animal carcass removal, demolition, search and rescue, firefighting, security, temporary generators for essential services, public warnings, and recovery and storage of human remains.
- Protecting improved property: emergency berms and temporary levees, emergency repairs such as covering a damaged roof, shoring and bracing, emergency slope stabilization, mold remediation, removing and storing contents, extracting water and mud quickly, and saving animals eligible for replacement.
- Only under limited conditions: increased operating costs, mosquito abatement, temporary relocation of essential services, and snow activities when the declaration authorizes them.
A description of each measure and the threat it addressed, plus labor, equipment, contract and supply records.
Watch out · Govstar practitioner advice
Keep a daily response log tying each activity to a specific threat. It is the backbone of a Category B project.