For PNPs, eligible emergency protective measures, such as mold remediation, are generally limited to activities associated with preventing damage to an eligible facility and its contents. It is the applicant’s responsibility to provide information and documentation to support that its work is eligible. The Applicant has not provided documentation that would allow FEMA to determine an eligible scope of work and costs or verify the requested work was required due to an immediate threat resulting from the declared incident. FEMA may provide Public Assistance (PA) funding for permanent work to an eligible PNP that provides noncritical but essential services only if it has applied for a disaster loan from the SBA. When the PNP cannot accept the terms of the loan, and the SBA therefore denies the loan, such as where the PNP does not meet a collateral requirement, PA funding is limited to the costs that would not have otherwise been covered by the loan. The Applicant could not offer collateral for the SBA loan; therefore, its PA funding is limited to the costs the loan would not have covered.

The Applicant has not provided documentation that would allow FEMA to determine an eligible scope of work and costs or verify the requested mold remediation work was required due to an immediate threat resulting from the declared incident. As such, the work is not eligible for PA funding as emergency protective measures. Furthermore, the SBA denied the Applicant’s $150,000.00 loan request because the Applicant could not meet the collateral requirement. Consequently, there are no costs the SBA loan would not have been able to cover because the loan would have met the Applicant’s PA funding needs.

Stafford Act §§ 403 and 406. 44 C.F.R. §§ 206.223(a), 206.225(a), 206.226(c)(2). 13 C.F.R. § 123.202. PAPPG, at 46, 57-58, 63-64, 111-112, and 172. St. Monica’s Church, FEMA-4563-DR-AL, at 2.