44 C.F.R. § 206.202 Application procedures.
Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance
(a) General. This section describes the policies and procedures that we use to process public assistance grants to States. Under this section the State is the Grantee. As Grantee you are responsible for processing subgrants to applicants under 44 CFR parts 13, 14, and 206, and your own policies and procedures. (b) Grantee. You are the grant administrator for all funds provided under the Public Assistance grant program. Your responsibilities under this section include: (1) Providing technical advice and assistance to eligible subgrantees; (2) Providing State support for project identification activities to include small and large project formulation and the validation of small projects; (3) Ensuring that all potential applicants are aware of available public assistance; and (4) Submitting documents necessary for the award of grants. (c) Request for Public Assistance (Request). The Grantee must send a completed Request (FEMA Form 90–49) to the Regional Director for each applicant who requests public assistance. You must send Requests to the Regional Director within 30 days after designation of the area where the damage occurred. (d) Project Worksheets. (1) An applicant's authorized local representative is responsible for representing the applicant and for ensuring that the applicant has identified all eligible work and submitted all costs for disaster-related damages for funding. (i) We or the applicant, assisted by the State as appropriate, will prepare a Project Worksheet (FEMA Form 90–91) for each project. The Project Worksheet must identify the eligible scope of work and must include a quantitative estimate for the eligible work. (ii) The applicant will have 60 days following its first substantive meeting with us to identify and to report damage to us. (2) When the estimated cost of work on a project is less than $1,000, that work is not eligible and we will not approve a Project Worksheet for the project. Periodically we will review this minimum approval amount for a Project Worksheet and, if needed, will adjust the amount by regulation. (e) Grant approval. (1) Before we obligate any funds to the State, the Grantee must complete and send to the Regional Director a Standard Form (SF) 424, Application for Federal Assistance, and a SF 424D, Assurances for Construction Programs. After we receive the SF 424 and SF 424D, the Regional Director will obligate funds to the Grantee based on the approved Project Worksheets. The Grantee will then approve subgrants based on the Project Worksheets approved for each applicant. (2) When the applicant submits the Project Worksheets, we will have 45 days to obligate Federal funds. If we have a delay beyond 45 days we will explain the delay to the Grantee. (f) Exceptions. The following are exceptions to the procedures and time limitations outlined in paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of this section. (1) Grant applications. An Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization may submit a SF 424 directly to the RD when the Act authorizes assistance and a State is legally unable to assume the responsibilities that these regulations prescribe. (2) Time limitations. The RD may extend the time limitations shown in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section when the Grantees justifies and makes a request in writing. The justification must be based on extenuating circustances beyond the grantee's or subgrantee's control. [64 FR 55160, Oct. 12, 1999]
Title 44: Emergency Management and Assistance
PART 206—FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR DISASTERS DECLARED ON OR AFTER NOVEMBER 23, 1988
Subpart G—Public Assistance Project Administration
§ 206.202 Application procedures.
