Fighting With FEMA : A Practical Regulations Handbook (Hardcover)

Introduction? 1. FEMA’s Public Assistance Program: Overview? 2. General Conditions for Pre?emptive Strategies? 3. Pre?Disaster Strategies & Policies? 4. The Local Government Cost Recovery Planning Process? 5. Disaster Cost Accounting Systems and Details? 6. Work Activity Documentation & Work Process Flow? 7. Criticality of Effective/Comprehensive Documentation? 8. Pre-Disaster and Post-Disaster Photo Documentation? 9. Disaster Procurement? 10. Insurance and Risk Management? 11. Role of the EOC & Department Operations Centers? 12. The Role of the EOC and Departmental Operations Centers? 13. Hired Guns & Consultants? 14. Proclamation & Declaration Processes? 15. Debris Monitoring & Debris Management? 16. Immediate Needs Funding? 17. Expedited Projects for Emergency Work? 18. Community Disaster Loan Program? 19. Mutual Aid? 20. Local Damage Assessment Process? 21. FEMA Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA)? 22. Other Federal Agencies (OFA) Funding? 23. FEMA Authorized Repair Versus Replacement (50% rule)? 24. Developing the AList of Projects@ aka the Damage Inventory? 25. Interpreting Contracts, Policies, and Memoranda of Understandings? 26. Eligibility? 27. Categorizing Projects? 28. Beginning the Paperwork Process? 29. The Public Assistance Grants Portal? 30. Special Considerations? ?31. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)? 32. Direct Administrative Costs (DAC)? 33. Regional (& Personal) Interpretation of FEMA Regulations? 34. Building & Infrastructure Codes & Standards? 35. Catch 22's: Conflicting Regulations? 36. Local Agency Self?Inflicted Gunshot Wounds? 37. Private Non?Profit Agencies? 38. Small Business Administration Loans (For Non?Profits)??39. Fraud? 40. Audits? 41. Appeals and Arbitration? 42. Close Outs and Net Small Project Overruns (NSPO)? 43. Summary and General Rules.? Index