Louisiana: Request for Public Assistance Deadline Approaches

BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana governments and certain private nonprofits affected by August’s severe storms and floods must submit their Request for Public Assistance (RPA) by Saturday, Oct. 15, for FEMA to consider them for Public Assistance (PA). 

FEMA’s PA program may assist eligible applicants with disaster-related expenses such as debris removal, managing the immediate response, and repairing or rebuilding facilities, buildings, roads and bridges.

City, parish and state government entities in the following parishes are eligible to submit RPAs: Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.

Private nonprofits that provide critical services—such as education, law enforcement, emergency services, healthcare and utilities—may also submit RPAs.

Organizations that provide non-critical, essential services must also apply for a low-interest disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in addition to submitting an RPA. FEMA may assist with expenses the SBA loan does not cover.

Governments and private nonprofits that sustained disaster-related costs and want to seek funding must first register at sam.gov to participate. They may find RPA forms online at louisianapa.com/site/resources.cfm.

Contact your parish’s emergency management director for more information. You may also email eRPA.help@la.gov or call 225-376-5330.