DRFA tool box
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The Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) provides guidance and advice to assist with all stages of a Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) funded projects.
Information overview
The DRFA & SDRA information sheet provides an overview of both the DRFA and the State Disaster Funding Arrangements (SDRA).
Treatment Guide
Using MARS
MARS is the Management and Reporting System developed by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) to support councils and state agencies with applications for all of the funding programs administered by the QRA.
Refer to the MARS user guides and and forms.
Submission forms and activation request - DRFA
Guidance on DRFA - Submission process (Tip sheets)
Definition of an eligible essential public asset under the DRFA eligibility criteria, and definition of an eligible undertaking, and which assets and costs are ineligible.
Overview for DRFA relief measures including: CDO; Immediate Reconstruction Works (IRW); Emergency Works (EW); and REPA.
Guide to providing photo evidence to claim the eligible costs for the reconstruction of an eligible asset damaged by a disaster activated under the DRFA.
Key dates for the following: Emergency Works and Immediate Reconstruction Works; Reconstruction of Essential Public Assets (REPA); and preparing estimates.
QRA relies on DRN data from councils and state agencies to help verify the location of essential public assets.
Evidence types that council REPA applications must demonstrate, including the location, nature and pre-disaster condition of the essential public asset.
Guidance on the DRFA requirements for claiming REPA funding to restore assets that have been re-damaged by subsequent disaster events.
Checklist to assist with lodging final progress reports and close out submissions data in MARS.
Guidance on DRFA - Eligibility requirements (Fact sheets)
Costs for eligible actual expenditure for the completion of approved scope or eligible activities are reimbursable through the DRFA.
Removal of hazardous and biohazardous material following an eligible disaster and assistance measures to support the clean-up of hazardous and biohazardous material, such as carcasses.
Assistance measures that can be used to support the repair of fencing damaged by an eligible disaster.
Eligibility advice on additional activities and associated costs that may be incurred while responding to a DRFA-activated disaster event during a pandemic.
Advice on eligible removal and management of disaster waste and debris from residential properties and essential public assets under DRFA.
Evidence types that council REPA applications must demonstrate, including the location, nature and pre-disaster condition of the essential public asset.
Tip and Fact sheets (PDF)
Thi section is currently under review.
All existing DRFA tip and fact sheets are availiable for download below.
DRFA media and public acknowledgements
All recipients of DRFA funding must adhere to the DRFA media and public acknowledgement requirements