Unified Federal Environmental and Historic Preservation Review (UFR) Library

The Unified Federal Environmental and Historic Preservation Review (UFR) Library contains documents associated with UFR Process development and implementation.  These documents, the Tools and Mechanisms, are for federal, tribal, state, and local stakeholders, including applicants and EHP practitioners.  The Tools and Mechanisms unify and expedite environmental and historic preservation (EHP) review for proposed disaster recovery projects because they can be in place before a disaster occurs, are scalable to the needs of a particular disaster, empower applicants, enable EHP practitioners to share data, apply existing efficiencies within EHP requirements to disaster recovery projects, and introduce new compliance pathways for specific EHP requirements.

The library contains the following: 

  • UFR Frequently Asked Questions
  • UFR Newsletters
  • Practitioner and Leadership Briefing Packages
  • Applicant Guide
  • Practitioner Guidance
  • Data Standards List and Instructions
  • Disaster-Specific Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
  • Interagency Meeting Checklist
  • EHP Agency Point of Contact Lists and Instructions
  • EHP Disaster Recovery Skills Checklist
  • UFR Process Glossary
  • IT Resources List and Instructions
  • UFR MOU
  • Prototype Programmatic Agreement for Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
  • Template Environmental Checklist for FEMA and HUD
  • UFR Fact Sheets for various stakeholders

Guide to Developing Memoranda of Agreements/Understanding (MOAs/MOUs)

This guide offers guidance and resources for crafting MOUs between FEMA components, other government agencies, or other entities.

UFR Guide to Interagency Reimbursable Work Agreements (IRWAs)

This guide provides practical assistance in selecting, drafting, and reviewing IRWAs between your agency and partner agencies.

FEMA Unified Federal Review Fact Sheet

A brief overview of the UFR Process for disaster leadership. This fact sheet explains who UFR is, what they do, and where UFR sits within an organizational chart for a disaster.”

Unified Federal Review (UFR) Infographic

This is an informational diagram that explains the UFR process. The infographic outlines the goals of the process and who is involved at the national, regional, and field level.

External Stakeholder Engagement Guide

This is a guide on key information to consider when planning outreach to external agencies or public entities.

Guide to UFR Resources for Practitioners and Applicants

The “Guide to UFR Resources for Practitioners and Applicants” serves as a directory of UFR product for disaster recovery grant applicants. The guide provides a synopsis of each resource. While the primary audiences are disaster recovery grantees and subgrantees, other federal and state partners may find these resources useful to guide post-disaster engagements or pre-disaster planning.

Memorandum of Understanding among the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration for Unified Federal Review of the Pu’u ‘Ō‘ō Volcanic Eruption and Lava Flow.

This document is provided as an example disaster-specific MOU developed to unify and expedite EHP reviews for disaster recovery projects associated with the Presidentially declared Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō Volcanic Eruption and Lava Flow Disaster. This MOU formalizes commitments among agencies to work together to facilitate uniformity, consistency, and transparency by setting forth roles and responsibilities, establishing interagency communication protocols, and identifying EHP priorities.

Unified Federal Review Frequently Asked Questions

A compilation of Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the Unified Federal Review, as well as background information regarding development of the process, intended for federal, tribal, state and local UFR Process stakeholders.

EHP Disaster Recovery Skills Checklist

A checklist to assist the coordinating Agency of the NCR RSF in identifying appropriate staff to deploy in support of the NCR RSF under the NDRF.

MOU Establishing the Unified Federal Environmental and Historic Preservation Review Process (UFR MOU)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS); the Department of Transportation (DOT); the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the Department of the Army (Civil Works); the Department of the Interior (DOI); the Department of Commerce (DOC); the Department of Agriculture (USDA); the Department of Energy (DOE); the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP); and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) (collectively, the “Parties,”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing the Unified Federal Review (UFR) process for environmental and historic preservation reviews associated with Disaster Recovery Projects. The establishment of the UFR process was called for by the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–2, div. B, §1106, Jan. 29, 2013, 127 Stat. 45).

Prototype Programmatic Agreement for Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (PPA)

The FEMA PPA establishes a national model for FEMA to negotiate Section 106 State-specific programmatic agreements with State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMAs), and/or Tribe(s), as appropriate without further involvement from the ACHP. Other Federal Agencies and HUD responsible entities may adopt and use the expedited process in the FEMA PA, without having to negotiate a separate PA.

Disaster Specific AAR Template

The Disaster Specific After-Action Report Template is a fillable template that the UFR Advisor will use to document and summarize their activities conducted while deployed to a disaster.

UFR Data Gathering for Internal Reporting

This job aid identifies and describes key documents prepared by the UFR Advisor that will be used to gather data on UFR activities.

UFR Advisor Roles and Responsibilities

UFR Advisor Deployment Guide

Streamlined graphic to determine if a UFR Advisor is recommended to deploy for a disaster.

JFO Checklist for UFR Advisors

A checklist of common activities that a Unified Federal Review Advisor should conduct at a Joint Field Office. The list is broken down by a timeline of a typical disaster.

UFR Process Fact Sheet

A fact sheet describing the Unified Federal Review process to Applicants for federal disaster recovery assistance projects.

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