Short answer
By infrastructure sector: for example all roads, bridges and culverts in one group, all school campuses in another, the entire water distribution system in another. Administrative and support facilities at a site, such as sheds, parking lots, fences and equipment, go in the same project as the primary facility, but you must still list each one separately on the impact list.
What FEMA requires
- FEMA initially groups damaged facilities by infrastructure sector (see table).
- Administrative and support facilities at a site go in the same project as the primary facility.
- You must list each damaged facility as a separate impact, whether primary or ancillary. FEMA uses the site identifier you provide to group them.
- Support facilities include buildings, sheds, restrooms, pumping stations, towers, contents, equipment, vehicles, fences, parking lots, access roads, signage, lighting, sidewalks, ditches, catch basins, piers, trails, pools and ball fields.
- For private nonprofits, not all support facilities are eligible (see Chapter 3).
<table class="pt-table"><thead><tr><th>Sector</th><th>Each of these is one initial group</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Transportation</td><td>Roads, bridges, low water crossings and culverts · Mass transit · Airports · Ports and harbors</td></tr><tr><td>Water control</td><td>Dams and reservoirs · Canals, channels, ditches, acequias and aqueducts · Stormwater basins · Shoreline protection (levees, berms, seawalls)</td></tr><tr><td>Education</td><td>All school campuses</td></tr><tr><td>Housing</td><td>All public housing campuses</td></tr><tr><td>Health</td><td>All hospital campuses and medical facilities</td></tr><tr><td>Emergency services</td><td>All police, fire and emergency operations centers</td></tr><tr><td>Other government</td><td>Courthouses, prisons, administrative and other non-emergency buildings</td></tr><tr><td>Energy</td><td>Power generation plants · Entire transmission and distribution system · Entire natural gas system</td></tr><tr><td>Water and wastewater</td><td>Treatment plants · Entire water distribution system · Entire wastewater collection system · Entire irrigation system</td></tr><tr><td>Communications and IT</td><td>All communication systems</td></tr><tr><td>Natural and cultural resources</td><td>Parks, golf courses and fish hatcheries · Beaches · Cemeteries, tribal burial grounds and sacred sites · Libraries, museums and galleries</td></tr></tbody></table>
Documentation
An impact list that lists every damaged facility separately, primary and ancillary alike, with a site identifier so FEMA can group support facilities with their primary facility.
Watch out · Govstar practitioner advice
If a support facility isn’t listed on its own line with the same site identifier, it can be missed entirely. For private nonprofits, not every support facility is eligible, so check facility eligibility before listing them.