Permanent Work Eligibility Overview

This section provides an introduction to Permanent Work eligibility and an overview of eligibility considerations by facility.

This section also includes discussions on key eligibility considerations and relevant topics such as Codes and Standards, Hazard Mitigation, Repair vs. Replacement, Relocation, Facilities Located in Floodplains, and Capped Projects.

Permanent Work (Categories C-G) is work required to restore a facility to its pre-disaster design (size and capacity) and function in accordance with applicable codes and standards. All Permanent Work is subject to the eligibility of the facility. Temporary emergency repair or stabilization for the purpose of eliminating or lessening an immediate threat is Emergency Work.

Permanent Work Eligibility Overview

Pre-disaster design means the size or capacity of a facility as originally constructed or subsequently modified. It does not mean the capacity at which the Applicant was using the facility at the time of the incident if different from the most recent designed capacity.

FEMA will only restore to predisaster design, function and capacity unless there is a code and standards or hazard mitigation measure that requires an upgrade. Otherwise changes would not be considered eligible.

If an Applicant designed and constructed an administrative building, but later altered it in accordance with applicable construction codes or standards to use as a school, the pre-disaster function would be as a school.

If the facility was serving an alternate function at the time of the incident, but was not altered to provide that function, FEMA provides Public Assistance funding to restore the facility either to the original pre-disaster function, OR pre-disaster alternate function, whichever costs less.

Overview

This section provides an introduction to Permanent Work eligibility and an overview of eligibility considerations by facility.

This section also includes discussions on key eligibility considerations and relevant topics such as Codes and Standards, Hazard Mitigation, Repair vs. Replacement, Relocation, Facilities Located in Floodplains, and Capped Projects.

Permanent Work (Categories C-G) is work required to restore a facility to its pre-disaster design (size and capacity) and function in accordance with applicable codes and standards. All Permanent Work is subject to the eligibility of the facility. Temporary emergency repair or stabilization for the purpose of eliminating or lessening an immediate threat is Emergency Work.

Permanent Work Eligibility Overview

Pre-disaster design means the size or capacity of a facility as originally constructed or subsequently modified. It does not mean the capacity at which the Applicant was using the facility at the time of the incident if different from the most recent designed capacity.

FEMA will only restore to predisaster design, function and capacity unless there is a code and standards or hazard mitigation measure that requires an upgrade. Otherwise changes would not be considered eligible.

If an Applicant designed and constructed an administrative building, but later altered it in accordance with applicable construction codes or standards to use as a school, the pre-disaster function would be as a school.

If the facility was serving an alternate function at the time of the incident, but was not altered to provide that function, FEMA provides Public Assistance funding to restore the facility either to the original pre-disaster function, OR pre-disaster alternate function, whichever costs less.

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