The site inspection occurs during Phase II of the Public Assistance process. The purpose of a site inspection is to validate incident-related damages listed on an Applicant's Damage Inventory. The site inspections also includes validation of:

1. The facility definition (including description of materials, location of waterline and its integral ground)
2. What happened to the facility (cause/failure mechanism, dimensions, materials)
3. What the Applicant says it’ll take to restore it to pre-disaster condition

Site inspections are completed with a member of the Applicant's staff or the Applicant's representative, and all information needed to formulate the project's Damage Description and Dimensions will be recorded.

A Site Inspector inspects all sites identified by the Applicant and reports on the list of damages provided, with the exception of the following conditions:

• All parties (FEMA, Recipient, and Applicant) concur on the site's ineligibility
• The Applicant completed the work and validated it through appropriate documentation. (e.g. photographs of the damaged site and the site after repairs area complete, force account records)