Low volume roads are the most common facility damaged during floods.  Roads that fail because of poor design disrupts commerce, results in pollution, contamination of water supplies, slows down emergency response, and creates other hardships in the day to day lives of those affected.

This is why the Disaster Center is making available, in print format, the Low-Volume Roads Engineering -- Best Management Practices Field Guide.

Information contained in this document has been developed for the guidance of road builders, road managers, and resource specialists in most geographic areas to help build better, more cost-effective roads, and roads that minimize adverse environmental impacts and protect water quality.

This Low-Volume Roads Engineering Best Management Practices Field Guide is intended to provide an overview of the key planning, location, design, construction, and maintenance aspects of roads that can cause adverse environmental impacts and to list key ways to prevent those

impacts.

This Field Guide does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation from or bound on any professional group, agency, or political entity. It is intended only as a guide for good roads engineering and sound environmental management in developing countries based upon the professional judgment and experience of the authors.

The FEMA Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide (PAPPG) is FEMA's PA bible.

The 2018 PAPPG (V3.0) is effective for all emergencies and major disasters declared on or after August 23, 2017. It supersedes the 2017 PAPPG (V2.0) which is effective for all emergencies and major disasters declared between April 1, 2017 and August 22, 2017.

DisasterCenter.com is happy to make the Federal Emergency Management Administration's (FEMA) Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide (PAPPG) V 3.0 available in a print format.

FEMA Public Assistance (PA) provides grants to jurisdictions and certain non-profits for the costs of emergency response and for damages to permanent facilities damaged as a result of events that qualify for Presidential Disaster Declarations.  

In terms of dollar amounts, FEMA's Public Assistance Program is the largest grant program that FEMA operates.

FEMA PA can assist with local and State governments’ emergency response efforts and in the restoration of public infrastructure after Presidential disaster declarations in the United States.

The Individual Assistance Program and Policy Guide is used to determine the Conditions of Eligibility for:

·         Mass Care and Emergency Assistance

·         Individuals and Households Program Assistance

·         Disaster Case Management

·         Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program

·         Disaster Legal Services

·         Disaster Unemployment Assistance

 Proceeds from the sale of this book support the Disaster Center

DisasterCenter.com is pleased to make the Federal Emergency Management Administration's (FEMA) Individual Assistance Program and Policy Guide (IAPPG) available in a print format.

The IAPPG consolidates information on Individual Assistance (IA) programs offered by FEMA to a state, territorial, tribal, or local government jurisdiction affected by a disaster.

The IAPPG:

Eligibility for Federal assistance is based on each applicant’s individual circumstances as they relate to each program’s conditions of eligibility. Not all applicants will be eligible for all forms of Federal assistance.