Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 23, 2024

Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance last revised: Nov 01, 2024
§ 296.35 - Reopening a claim.

The Director of the Claims Office may reopen a claim if requested to do so by the claimant, notwithstanding the submission of the Release and Certification Form, for the limited purpose of considering issues raised by the request to reopen if, not later than November 14, 2025, the claimant desires heightened risk reduction compensation in accordance with § 296.21(e)(5) or the claimant closed the sale of real property and wishes to present a claim for decrease in the value of the real property under § 296.21(c)(3). Claimants may request to reopen claims where the claimant has incurred additional losses under § 296.21(c)(1) as part of a reconstruction in excess of those previously awarded or the Director of the Claims Office otherwise determines that claimant has demonstrated good cause no later than the deadline established by the Director of the Claims Office as published in the Federal Register and at https://www.fema.gov/hermits-peak.

authority: Pub. L. 117-180, 136 Stat. 2114, 2168; Homeland Security Act of 2002, 6 U.S.C. 101
source: 88 FR 59777, Aug. 29, 2023, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 44 CFR 296.35