To be eligible, work must be required as a direct result of the declared incident. Restoring the predisaster carrying capacity or storage capacity of engineered channels may be eligible, but only if the applicant provides documentation to establish: (1) the predisaster capacity of the facility; and (2) that the applicant maintains the facility on a regular schedule. The Applicant’s supporting documentation does not include recent or multi-year survey data that would establish a basis for determining how much material was deposited in the ditch channels by the disaster. Furthermore, the documentation provided does not establish predisaster maintenance of the ditch channels on a regular basis or predisaster maintenance of the ditch embankment, which could establish the embankment’s predisaster condition. Finally, predisaster USACE inspection reports provided with the appeal do not assist in establishing the predisaster maintenance of the drainage ditch channels or the predisaster condition of the embankment.

The Applicant has not demonstrated the requested work is necessary as a result of the declared incident. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

Stafford Act § 406(a)(1)(A). 44 C.F.R. § 206.223(a)(1). PAPPG, at 19, 117. Big Slough Drainage District, FEMA-4461-DR-IL, at 3