The Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA), amended Sections 402 and 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act), and authorized FEMA to “provide assistance to state and local governments for building code and floodplain administration and enforcement, including inspections for substantial damage compliance” and “base and overtime wages for extra hires to facilitate the implementation and enforcement of adopted building codes for a period of not more than 180 days after the major disaster is declared.”
This policy enacted through FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) Program implements section 1206 of DRRA by leveraging the amendments to Section 402 and Section 406. While the provisions of this policy apply only to the PA Program, assistance under section 1206 of DRRA may be available under other FEMA programs, such as FEMA’s Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration’s (FIMA) Substantial Damage Data Collection Contracts.