Upon submitting the RPA, DEMA and FEMA verify the applicant's eligibility.

The following entities are eligible to apply for the PA program in the state of Delaware:

• State Government
• Local Government
  • Counties
  • Municipalities, cities, towns, and townships
  • School districts
  • State Recognized Tribes
• Private Non-Profit (PNP) Organizations:

  Only certain PNPs are eligible Applicants. To be an eligible PNP Applicant, a PNP must own or operate a facility that provides certain essential and critical services otherwise performed by a government agency. Critical services are defined as education, utility, emergency services, and emergency medical care.

  Note: PNPs owning or operating a facility established or primarily used for political, athletic, recreational, vocational, or academic training, conferences, or similar activities are ineligible. This includes but is not limited to, cemeteries, parking not in direct support of eligible facilities, public housing other than low-income housing, advocacy or lobbying groups not directly providing health services, and flood control (e.g., levees, berms, dunes).

To be eligible, a facility must meet the following criteria:

• It must have been in active use or open to the general public at the start of the incident period. Inactive or partially active facilities are ineligible for PA funding.
• It must be maintained before the incident period.
• It must be under the applicant's legal responsibility and not under another Federal agency's specific authority.
• Located in the designated disaster area, except for sheltering activities.
• Damaged by the declared disaster or emergency.

A state or local government must own or have legal responsibility for maintaining a facility to be eligible for permanent work, temporary repairs, or mold remediation. However, facility eligibility is not a requirement for state and local governments to determine the eligibility of emergency and protective measures.

Public facilities include, but are not limited to:

• System: such as flood control, navigation, irrigation, reclamation, and public power (e.g., sewage treatment and collection, water supply and distribution)
• Building: such as maintenance and storage sheds, restroom facilities, bathhouses, or outbuildings, including ancillary facilities
• Non-federal-aid street, road, or highway, ramps, or access roads
• Public buildings, structures, or systems, including those used for educational, recreational, or cultural purposes
• Airport facility including runways
• Park including piers, docks, trails, benches, picnic tables, swimming pools, golf courses, or ball fields
• Other public facilities, including pumping stations, communication towers and antennas, contents, supplies, equipment, vehicles, fences, parking lots, stairs, signage, lighting, sidewalks, gutters, ditches, guard rails, integral ground, catch basins, or outfall structures

To be eligible for PA funding, disaster recovery work performed on an eligible facility must be:

• Required as a direct result of a major disaster event. Work is ineligible if it addresses pre-existing impacts or damages to the facility or damage due to wear and tear, deferred maintenance, negligence, or occurred after the incident period.
• Located within a designated disaster area.
• The legal responsibility of an eligible Applicant.

Note: For the work to be eligible, the facility must first be eligible for PA funding.

The cost must directly be tied to the performance of eligible work to be eligible.

Costs must also be:

• Reasonable and necessary to accomplish the work
• Compliant with Federal, State, and local requirements for procurement
• Reduced by all applicable credits, such as insurance proceeds and salvage values
• Directly tied to the performance of eligible work
• Adequately documented, substantiated, or certified
• Authorized and not prohibited under federal or state and local government laws or regulations
• Consistent with the applicant's internal policies, regulations, and procedures and applied equally to both federal awards and other activities of the applicant

The cost of eligible work is typically a shared cost. The Federal share of assistance is not less than 75 percent of the eligible cost for emergency measures and permanent work.

• Trees + woody debris
• Building components or contents
• Sand + mud + silt + gravel
• Vehicle and vessel wreckage
• Rocks, boulders, white goods
• Other disaster-related wreckage

NOTE: Snow is generally not considered a form of debris, so snow removal is not part of the debris removal activities.

• Flood fighting
• Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
• Building safety inspections
• Emergency communications
• Emergency evacuations of medical and custodial care facilities
• Emergency mass care and shelter operations
• Emergency medical facilities
• Food, water, ice, and other essential needs
• PNP facility emergency protective measures IF the facilities are otherwise eligible
• Search and rescue
• Security in the disaster area, such as barricades, fencing, or law enforcement
• Transportation of disaster victims
• Temporary generators for facilities that provide health and safety services
• Under certain conditions, snow removal

• Road ditches
• Road drainage structure, low-water crossings
• Road surfaces, bases, and shoulders
• Drainage structures including culverts, vegetated swales, and water bars
• Bridge approaches
• Bridge decking and pavement
• Bridge piers, girders, and abutments
• Bridge slope protection

• Dams and reservoirs
• Levees and floodwalls
• Canals
• Coastal shoreline protective devices
• Pumping facilities
• Irrigation facilities
• Storm water retention and detention basins

• Buildings including structural and non-structural components, including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems
• Equipment, vehicles, contents and supplies
• Mold remediation and removal of mud, silt, or other accumulated debris when conducted simultaneously with the facility's restoration
• Animals housed or exhibited in an eligible facility

• Water storage facilities, treatment plants, and delivery systems
• Power generation, transmission, distribution, and storage facilities
• Sewage collection systems and treatment plants
• Communication systems
• Natural gas transmission and distribution facilities

• Mass transit facilities such as railways
• Beaches
• Parks, playground equipment, picnic tables
• Swimming pools, bathhouses
• Golf courses, ball fields
• Fish hatcheries
• Ports and harbors, boat docks
• Piers
• Other facilities that do not fit in Categories C – F