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Disaster4486
ApplicantTallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Inc.
Appeal TypeSecond
PA ID#073-UV3QG-00
PW ID#GMP 157788/PW 936
Date Signed2024-08-19T16:00:00

N/A

Appeal Letter

SENT VIA EMAIL

Kevin Guthrie 

Director 

Florida Division of Emergency Management 2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100

Philip Doyle 

Chief 

Public Safety and Emergency Management Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Inc.

1300 Miccosukee Road 

Tallahassee, Florida 32308

 

Re:

Second Appeal – Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Inc., PA ID: 073-UV3QG-00, 

FEMA-4486-DR-FL, Grants Manager Project 157788/Project Worksheet 936 – Appeals

 

Dear Kevin Guthrie and Philip Doyle: 

 

This is in response to a letter from the Florida Division of Emergency Management (Recipient) office dated July 24, 2024, transmitting the referenced second appeal on behalf of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Inc. (Applicant). The Applicant is appealing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) denial of $90,786.29 for the cost of supplies used to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  

Section 423(a) of the Stafford Act provides that any decision regarding eligibility for assistance may be appealed within 60 days after the date on which the applicant is notified of the award or denial of assistance. Implementing this provision, Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 206.206(c) (2019), requires that applicants must file appeals within 60 days after receipt of a notice of the action that is being appealed. Recipients must then review and forward appeals within 60 days after receipt of the appeal from the applicant.

According to the Administrative Record, the Applicant received notice of FEMA’s denial of funding by way of a Determination Memorandum on July 10, 2023, and submitted its first appeal in a letter dated August 31, 2023, received by the Recipient on September 5, 2023. However, the Recipient did not transmit the appeal until February 23, 2024. This was after the 60 calendar-day timeframe required by FEMA’s regulations, making the first appeal untimely. Therefore, this appeal is denied.

This determination is the final decision on this matter pursuant to 44 C.F.R. § 206.206, Appeals.

 

                                                                                                               Sincerely,

                                                                                                                    /S

                                                                                                               Robert Pesapane, Director

                                                                                                               Public Assistance Division

cc:  Robert D. Samaan

      Regional Administrator    

      FEMA Region 4

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