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Summary

PA grant management is a complicated endeavor with multiple steps and considerations, especially when it comes to Category E losses. A team effort will be required at every stage of your recovery — from reviewing leases for legal responsibility and ensuring that procurement is properly handled, to educating your facilities and public works staff who will be managing the construction phase, to coordinating with the emergency management and risk management departments to ensure that funding is optimized without duplication. Decisions will need to be made about the efficiencies of using force account labor versus contractors, and a comprehensive strategy developed for how best to formulate and present your projects to FEMA in order to best accomplish your long-term recovery plans.

Understanding all the elements and policy considerations that go into developing and implementing all Category E projects — which make up an average of 30 percent of all large projects for permanent work — will go a long way toward ensuring that your recovery is a smooth one.

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1 http://www.fema.gov/average-number-small-and-large-project-worksheets-work-category.
2 FEMA 322 Public Assistance Guide, June 2007, Chapter 2: Eligibility; also see FEMA Policy 9527.1 Seismic Safety — New Construction, November 21, 2007, and FEMA Policy 9525.5 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Access Requirements, October 26, 2000.
3 FEMA Policy 9580.100 Mold Remediation, November 7, 2006.
4 FEMA Policy 9526.1 Hazard Mitigation Funding Under Section 406 (Stafford Act).
5 FEMA Policy 9525.6 Project Supervision and Management Costs of Subgrantees, April 22, 2001.
6 FEMA Policy 9525.9 Section 324 Management Costs and Direct Administrative Costs, March 12, 2008.
7 FEMA Policy 9524.10 Replacement of Equipment, Vehicles, and Supplies, September 8, 2009.
8 FEMA Policy 9525.8 Damage to Applicant-Owned Equipment Performing Emergency Work, December 17, 2008.
9 FEMA 322 Public Assistance Guide, June 2007, Chapter 4: Special Considerations.
10 Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended by Public Law 106-390, October 30, 2000, §5154 {Sec. 311(a)(2)}.

Judy Wolf Adjusters International

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