Stafford Act 403 provides assistance essential to meeting immediate threats to life and property resulting from a major disaster.44 C.F.R. 206.225 authorizes FEMA to fund emergency work including cost-effective measures that eliminate or lessen immediate threats of significant additional damage to improved property. When emergency work is performed on beaches; this work may be eligible providing the beach has eroded to such an extent that a five-year storm or flood event will damage improved property.DAP9580.8 permits sand replacement to qualify as an eligible emergency protective measure; if it protects life and improved property from storm damage with a magnitude of a 5-year event. FEMA considers temporary sand berms constructed to protect against additional damage from a five-year storm to be eligible emergency work.The Applicant has not provided supporting documentation demonstrating that the work performed was eligible emergency work.

PA Guide; at 74; 86.DAP9580.8.HeadnotesStafford Act § 403 provides assistance essential to meeting immediate threats to life and property resulting from a major disaster.44 C.F.R. § 206.225 authorizes FEMA to fund emergency work including cost-effective measures that eliminate or lessen immediate threats of significant additional damage to improved property. When emergency work is performed on beaches; this work may be eligible providing the beach has eroded to such an extent that a five-year storm or flood event will damage improved property.DAP9580.8 permits sand replacement to qualify as an eligible emergency protective measure; if it protects life and improved property from storm damage with a magnitude of a 5-year event. FEMA considers temporary sand berms constructed to protect against additional damage from a five-year storm to be eligible emergency work.The Applicant has not provided supporting documentation demonstrating that the work performed was eligible emergency work.