44 C.F.R. § 206.202(b) and (c) delegate to the Grantee the responsibility to provide technical advice and assistance to all applicants, to ensure all potential applicants are aware of available Public Assistance and the process for requesting assistance, including the relevant deadlines, to submit documents necessary for an award of grants, and to send the completed RPA within the 30 day time period. The justification must be based on extenuating circumstances beyond the Applicant’s or the Grantee’s control. The PAPPG, at 130, sets forth guidelines regarding the Grantee’s responsibility to collect and transmit all RPAs within the regulatory deadline. The Applicant’s lack of awareness of the RPA deadline does not constitute extenuating circumstances beyond its own or the Grantee’s control. As such, the Applicant’s reasons fail to justify an extension by FEMA of the established deadline for submitting the RPA.

The Applicant did not demonstrate its delay in submitting its RPA was due to an extenuating circumstance beyond its or the Grantee’s control to warrant extending the deadline for the RPA. Therefore, the appeal is denied.

Stafford Act § 406(a)(3). 44 C.F.R. § 206.202(a)-(c), (f). PAPPG, at 130. North Miami Beach Med. Ctr., FEMA-4337-DR-FL; Milford Redev. And Hous. P’ship, FEMA-4087-DR-CT; Fla. Div. of Cmty. Colleges, FEMA-1679-DR-FL; Church Homes, Inc., FEMA-4046-DR-CT.