Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 605 - Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department › Chapter 7 - Local Emergency Management › Rule 605-7.6 - Damage Assessment and Financial Assistance for Disaster Recovery

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Disaster-related expenditures and damages incurred by local
				governments, private nonprofit entities, individuals, and businesses may be
				reimbursable and covered under certain state and federal disaster assistance
				programs. Preliminary damage assessments shall be provided to the homeland
				security and emergency management department prior to the governor's making a
				determination that the magnitude and impact are sufficient to warrant a request
				for a presidential disaster declaration.
(1)
Local preliminary damage
			 assessment and impact statement.
The local emergency management
			 coordinator shall be responsible for the coordination and collection of damage
			 assessment and impact statement information immediately following a disaster
			 that affects the jurisdiction.
(2)
Damage assessment guidance and forms to be provided.
The
			 homeland security and emergency management department will provide guidance
			 regarding the methodologies to be used in collecting damage assessment and
			 impact statement information and shall provide the forms and format by which
			 this information shall be recorded.
(3)
Joint preliminary damage
			 assessment.
Once the governor has determined that a request for a
			 presidential disaster declaration is appropriate, joint preliminary damage
			 assessment teams, consisting of local, state, and federal inspectors, will
			 assess the uninsured damages and costs incurred or to be incurred in responding
			 to and recovering from the disaster. All affected city, municipality, or county
			 governments shall be required to provide assistance to the joint preliminary
			 damage assessment teams for conducting damage assessments. The jurisdiction may
			 be required to develop maps to show the damaged areas and to compile lists of
			 names and telephone numbers of individuals, businesses, private nonprofit
			 entities, and governmental agencies sustaining disaster response and recovery
			 costs or damages. This joint preliminary damage assessment may be required
			 before the request for presidential declaration is formally transmitted to the
			 Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(4)
Public assistance and hazard
			 mitigation briefing.
In the event that a presidential disaster
			 declaration is received, affected jurisdictions and eligible private nonprofit
			 entities should be prepared to attend a public assistance and hazard mitigation
			 briefing to acquire the information and documents necessary to make their
			 formal applications for public and hazard mitigation assistance. Failure to
			 comply with the deadlines for making application for public and mitigation
			 assistance as established in 44 CFR Part 206 and the Stafford Act (PL 923-288)
			 may jeopardize or eliminate the jurisdiction's or private nonprofit entity's
			 ability to receive assistance.
(5)
Forfeiture of assistance funding.
Failure to provide timely
			 and accurate damage assessment and impact statement information may jeopardize
			 or eliminate an applicant's ability to receive federal and state disaster
			 assistance funds that may otherwise be available.
State participation in
				funding of disaster financial assistance in a presidentially declared disaster
				shall be contingent upon the commission's having on file a state-approved,
				comprehensive emergency plan which meets the standards as provided in paragraph
				7.3(4)
"d."