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. Initial damage reports and preliminary damage assessments shall be
provided to the 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 or joint preliminary damage assessment.
(1)
Local preliminary damage
assessment and impact statement. The local emergency management
coordinator shall be responsible for the coordination and collection of initial
damage reports, damage assessment and impact statement information immediately
following a disaster that affects the jurisdiction.
(2)
Damage assessment guidance and
forms to be provided. The 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, may assess the 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 applicant 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 Parts
204 and
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 is contingent upon the commission's
having on file a state-approved, comprehensive emergency plan that meets the
standards as provided in paragraph 7.3(4)"d."
Notes
Iowa Admin. Code
r. 605-7.6
ARC 0129C, lAB 5/30/12,
effective 7/4/12
Amended by
IAB
December 23, 2015/Volume XXXVIII, Number 13, effective
1/27/2016
Adopted by
IAB
May 14, 2025/Volume XLVII, Number 23, effective
6/18/2025
