6.1. Develop and implement a recovery plan to restore facilities to their pre-disaster condition, when requested as required by the project. 6.2. Assist TPWD with regard to disaster assistance and management of any type needed including, but not limited to, response; and preliminary damage assessments; coordination with any State of Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) or FEMA recovery and mitigation services, and any other federal or state agency as needed. 6.3. Provide broad-based support services for response, recovery, and administration activities, ensuring the TPWD is able to accomplish and maximize, if available, federal and state grant funding for activities such as debris operations, emergency protective measures and recovery missions, infrastructure, and other activities that serve the public’s health and safety. 6.4. Provide guidance in recovering reimbursement for the repair and potential replacement of the loss of critical infrastructure under the FEMA PA Program. 6.5. Assist and/or represent TPWD with the implementation of preliminary damage assessments (PDAs) to document the impact and magnitude of disasters. 6.6. Collaborate with TPWD on project formulation of FEMA projects, State and Federal grants, including developing scope of work, cost estimates, detailed damage descriptions (field team assessment of damages including damaged structures, contents, etc.) and required backup documentation for submittal of project worksheets and grant applications. 6.7. Provide support services to TPWD with documenting damages from disaster events in the FEMA Portal, to include uploading and managing documents. 6.8. Coordinate with management of FEMA and/or other federal and state agencies and local jurisdictions to complete tasks such as; arranging for routine status/action plan meetings, establishing priorities, scope changes, updates, quarterly reporting, time extensions, and deliverables. 6.9. Develop improved and/or alternate project requests to include Section 428-Sandy Recovery Improvement Act (SRIA) alternative arrangement projects within the recovery process within established FEMA timelines. 6.10. Develop and implement Section 406 Hazard Mitigation Proposals (HMPs). 6.11. Develop and implement Section 404 Hazard Mitigation Grant Proposals (HMGP) including the use of FEMA Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) tools and methodologies. 6.12. Develop applications and BCA’s for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) including the development of required BCA’s. 6.13. Develop grant applications including, but not limited to, Infrastructure grants, as well as other Federal, State, Regional, and local grants as identified and required. 6.14. Assist with insurance optimization by working with insurance carriers to optimize coverage relating to the disaster, while also making recommendations with regard to limits, scope, and deductibles for future policy negotiations. 6.15. Assist TPWD in the understanding of Texas Windstorm Policies, National Flood insurance policies and the effects of anticipated and actual reductions on FEMA Project Worksheets (PW’s). 6.16. Develop first and second level appeals. 6.17. Coordinate the closeout process of projects to include establishing programmatic document control, establishing a file retention system and data management processes to ensure disaster are complete and ready for audit. TPWD will require all documents to be held and retained within the agency.
