Ariz. Admin. Code § R8-2-303 - Contents of an Application for Assistance

A. An applicant shall set forth in an application the cause, location, and beginning date of the emergency, a description of the damage caused by the emergency and potential health hazards arising from the emergency, the costs incurred for emergency response, and an estimate of the number of people affected by the emergency and costs for recovery.

B. Before submitting an application to the Director, the applicant shall use its available resources to respond to the emergency and request assistance from other political subdivisions that might respond to the emergency.

C. The "emergency" must also be clearly demonstrated to be above and beyond the jurisdiction's ability to recover from without state assistance. Examples as to how to demonstrate this element would be: use of mutual aid, documenting multiple events, lack of physical or personnel resources, depleted contingency funds or redirection of operating funds; which must be attested to in writing by the jurisdiction's chief financial officer.

A. An Applicant shall set forth in its Application for Assistance:

1. A description of the Damages and/or potential health or other hazards in issue;

2. The cause or causes of the Damages;

3. The location or locations of the Damages;

4. The beginning date of the Incident Period;

5. The costs incurred for response;

6. An estimate of the number of people affected; and

7. An estimate of the cost of what the Applicant believes will be the Eligible Work.

B. An Applicant's Application for Assistance shall show that before submitting an Application for Assistance to the Director, the Applicant first used all of its available resources to address the Incident. Before submitting an Application for Assistance to the Director, an Applicant that is a Political Subdivision shall request assistance from all other Political Subdivisions that might assist the Applicant in responding to the Incident.

C. The Applicant's Application for Assistance also must be accompanied by a statement on Applicant's letterhead and signed under oath by Applicant's chief financial officer, setting forth specific facts (including but not limited to the inadequacy of mutual aid resources, the nature and extent of the Damage, the lack of necessary physical assets or personnel, and/or the inadequacy of the Applicant's own financial resources) sufficient for the Director to find, in the Director's sole discretion, that the Eligible Work in question is beyond the Applicant's ability to complete without State assistance.

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Ariz. Admin. Code § R8-2-303

Adopted effective September 18, 1996 (Supp. 96-3). Amended by exempt rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 4216, effective December 1, 2013. Amended by final exempt rulemaking at 29 A.A.R. 238, effective 12/15/2022.