From: Poole, Jamie

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Subject: FW: Issuance of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Coordinating Public Assistance and Other Sources of Federal Funding Fact Sheet

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Attachments: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic - Coordination of Funding Fact Sheet Memo.6.30.20.signed.pdf; FEMA COVID-19 - Coordinating Public Assistance and Other Sources of Federal Funding.pdf;

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Please see the FEMA Public Assistance update from Wednesday, 7/1. Apologies for the delay in sending, this was stuck in my spam email.

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Jamie Poole

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Clackamas County Disaster Management | 2200 Kaen Road, Oregon City, OR 97045

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Subject: [Localtribal-em] FW: Issuance of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Coordinating Public Assistance and Other Sources of Federal Funding Fact Sheet

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HI All, here is the latest policy regarding FEMA Public Assistance and other sources of federal funding - Update 7/1/20

IN Summary –

Coordination of Funding – To avoid confusion and streamline options amongst multiple funding sources, FEMA may decide not to pay for certain types of work and may direct SLTTs to another agency with more subject matter expertise or with a more flexible funding source.

For example, contact tracing is potentially an eligible PA emergency protective measure, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury); however, FEMA has determined that those agencies are the most appropriate for SLTTs seeking funding for contact tracing. As FEMA continues to coordinate with our federal partners to ensure coordination of funding, we will provide additional guidance to SLTTs for where they can seek funding. If an applicant applies to FEMA for PA funding and then determines it no longer wants the funding for the cost of certain activities from FEMA and will instead seek funding from another federal agency, the applicant should notify FEMA as soon as possible. Applicants should notify FEMA by withdrawing or amending their PA project application if funding has not been awarded yet or request an updated version to amend their PA project if funding has been awarded.

Cost Share – For COVID-19, PA funding is authorized at 75% federal cost share. Generally, other federal agency funding cannot be used to meet the FEMA non-federal share requirement. For COVID-19, there are two exceptions: Treasury’s CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Disaster Block Grant (CDBG-CV) can be used to meet the PA non-federal share. Cost share requirements vary from agency-to-agency and program-to-program; however, many of the programs funded by the CARES Act and the other supplemental appropriations do not require a non-federal share.

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Cc: Subject: Issuance of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Coordinating Public Assistance and Other Sources of Federal Funding Fact Sheet

All –

The purpose of this memorandum is to issue the attached Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency: Coordinating Public Assistance and Other Sources of Federal Funding Fact Sheet.

The President’s March 13, 2020, COVID-19 nationwide emergency declaration and subsequent major disaster declarations authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide Public Assistance (PA) Program funding under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government entities and certain private nonprofit organizations for emergency protective measures. For COVID-19, Congress authorized over $3 trillion to multiple federal agencies to provide assistance to SLTTs in addressing the effects of the public health emergency pandemic. The extensive COVID-19 authority of other federal agencies in some cases overlaps with FEMA’s authority. As a result, FEMA is releasing this fact sheet to provide clear guidance on how FEMA will treat these multiple sources of funding as they relate to the PA Program and its cost share requirements.