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Sewer Lines, over time, can often be crushed or offset by this common natural occurrence.
What are tree roots?
This is the last step of the PDA process.
What is an STT Government Request for a disaster declaration?
These types of employees are eligible for straight-time labor reimbursement for Cat B projects.
What are Unbudgeted Employees?
During beach reconstruction, imported sand is necessary for repair, but the applicant must make sure the sand matches this, before proceeding.
What is the proper grain size?
This FEMA program provides direct financial assistance to survivors with disaster-caused unmet needs.
What is Individual Assistance?
The sloping sides of a valley that support the end of a dam.
This degree of non-structural damage to a home does not make it unsafe to enter.
What is Affected?
This effort is specifically required when contractors dispose of debris for an applicant.
What is debris monitoring?
This is the dry, stable, shoulder-like section of the beach that stays above the water level at high tide.
What is the beach berm?
This App, discussed during training, allows one to measure angles and inclines.
What is "PitchFactor"?
This type of retaining wall is built to prevent erosion along an embankment and may consist of a facing of stone slabs, rock, masonry, or concrete.
What is a Revetment?
This degree of structural or other significant damage to a home requires extensive repairs.
What is Major damage?
Debris removal from these types of waterways and roads are ineligible due to legal authority.
What are Federally Maintained Roads (or Navigable Waterways)?
This wall of stone, concrete, or other sturdy material is built along the shoreline to prevent erosion by even the strongest and highest of waves.
What is a Seawall?
This form of repair is often used on gas and water lines, and relies on heavy drilling and minimizing impacts on ground disturbance.
What is Directional Boring? (Horizontal Directional Drilling)
This type of sewer-line repair uses resin and inflation to reseal the pipe interior.
What is cured-in-place (CIPP) sewer repair?
This issue consists of things such as fatigue cracking, potholes, missing shingles, and cracked foundations.
What is Deferred Maintenance? (non-disaster related damage)
This type of FAL reimbursement is only eligible when it is: Consistent with Pay-policy, When necessary for life-saving action, And tends to involve a bunch of people just "standing around."
What is Standby Time?
This offshore coastal protective structure is built parallel to the coastline to help absorb the energy of breaking waves.
What is a Breakwater?
This is the area of a bridge between the arch ring and the roadway.
What is a Spandrel?
These technique(s) are used to protect soil areas at risk from erosion by flooding or wind.
What is Soil Stabilization?
These TWO drop-down boxes in Quick Capture give several icons to distinguish what type of image you're capturing when conducting PDA. (Two Responses)
What are "Damage Inventory" and "Rapid Debris"?
This is a process by which applicants request rapid access to federal disaster funds to provide immediate financial resources.
What is an Expedited Funding Request?
The subaqueous profile of the beach damage site contains portions of sand that may have washed into the water. This is the point at which (for FEMA) the seaward edge of this profile ends.
What is the Depth of Closure?
PAPPG V.5 (p 207)
FEMA determines whether a PA project will have a negative impact on the floodplain. To make this determination, FEMA uses an 8-step decision-making process, which is not required if the project is under THIS AMOUNT.
What is $18,000?
44 CFR 9.6; PAPPG v.5 (pg.221)