FEMA PA APPEAL SHORT SUMMARY & LINKS TO FEMA PA APPEAL WEBSITE

This is in response to letters from your office dated September 10, 2018, which transmitted the referenced second appeals on behalf of Nassau County, New York (Applicant). The Applicant is appealing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) decision to uphold a partial denial of funding for certain travel expenses claimed as Direct Administrative Costs (DAC) under PWs 2214, 2608, 2609, 2671, 2909, 3640, 3988, and 4001, on the basis that such expenses were indirect costs, and ineligible for reimbursement as DAC. As explained in the enclosed analysis, I have determined that since the travel expenses at issue benefitted more than one PW, they are indirect costs under FEMA Disaster Assistance Policy (DAP) 9525.9, Section 324 Management Costs and Direct Administrative Costs (November 13, 2007), and the Applicant cannot allocate or assign such expenses to individual projects as DAC. Accordingly, I am denying the appeal. Please inform the Applicant of my decision. This determination is the final decision on this matter pursuant to 44 C.F.R. § 206.206, Appeals.