FEMA Second Appeals
- North Memorial Health Care dated 10/1/2025
- Category: Force Account Labor & Equipment Costs
- Disaster 4531: COVID-19 Pandemic / Minnesota (Jan. 20, 2020 – May 11, 2023)
- Conclusion: FEMA finds that the premium pay costs are ineligible for Public Assistance funding. Therefore, this appeal is denied.
- Mecklenburg County dated 10/1/2025
- Category: Allowable & Reasonable Costs
- Disaster 4487: COVID-19 Pandemic / North Carolina (Jan. 20, 2020 – May 11, 2023)
- Conclusion: FEMA finds the NCS costs incurred for unused rooms were not reasonable and necessary to address the public health needs of the COVID-19 emergency. (Denied)
- V.I. Waste Management Authority/St. Croix dated 10/1/2025
- Category: Alternative Procedures
- Disaster 4340: Hurricane Maria / U.S. Virgin Islands (Sept. 16-22, 2017)
- Conclusion: The SOW change request denial based on legal responsibility is not related to a BBA determination. Therefore, as this is a Section 428 PAAP project, a SOW change denial is not an appealable action under FEMA policy.
- City of Cortland dated 9/25/2025
- Category: Force Account Labor & Equipment Costs, Immediate Threat
- Disaster 4480: COVID-19 Pandemic / New York (Jan. 20, 2020 – May 11, 2023)
- Conclusion: The claimed overtime, equipment, and medical supplies costs are not directly tied to the performance of eligible work. (Denied)
- City of Fort Lauderdale dated 9/24/2025
- Category: Other Federal Agency
- Disaster 4709: Severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding / Florida (Apr. 12-14, 2023)
- Conclusion: FEMA finds the Applicant’s sidewalk is a component of a Federal-aid route and is consequently ineligible for PA funding. (Denied)
- City of Biloxi dated 9/24/2025
- Category: Allowable & Reasonable Costs
- Disaster 4576: Hurricane Zeta / Mississippi (Oct. 28-29, 2020)
- Conclusion: FEMA finds that $328,995.87 in additional repair costs are necessary and reasonable. However, the Applicant has not demonstrated that the remaining costs are eligible.
OIG Reports
- None posted in the last week
- Las report issued 9/24/2025 – OIG 25-45 – FEMA Adequately Managed Port Security Grants, but Program Effectiveness Remains Unevaluated
CBCA Decisions
- None posted in the last week
- Last decision dated 9/12/2025 – University of Rhode Island
- Decision: This case is dismissed at the request of the applicant; the parties have resolved the underlying dispute.
Federal Register Rules, Proposed Rules, Notices or Presidential Documents by FEMA
Title 44 Chapter I
- None posted in the last week
- Last published 11/1/2024 – National Flood Insurance Program Installment Payment Plan
- Summary: The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a voluntary program in which interested persons can purchase flood insurance for their property, if it is located in a community that participates in the NFIP by adopting and enforcing a set of minimum floodplain management requirements to reduce future flood damages. FEMA is revising the NFIP’s regulations to offer NFIP policyholders the option of paying their annual flood insurance premium in monthly installments This rule is effective December 31, 2024.
Title 2 Subtitle A Chapter 11
- None posted in the last week
- Last published 7/16/2018 – National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP): Conforming Changes To Reflect the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (BW-12) and the Homeowners Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (HFIAA), and Additional Clarifications for Plain Language
- Summary: The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), established pursuant to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, is a voluntary program in which participating communities adopt and enforce a set of minimum floodplain management requirements to reduce future flood damages. This proposed rule would revise the NFIP’s implementing regulations to codify certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 that FEMA has already implemented and to clarify certain existing NFIP rules relating to NFIP operations and the Standard Flood Insurance Policy.