(a) “Director” means the Director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

(b) “Disaster” means a fire, flood, storm, tornado, hurricane, earthquake or other similar public calamity affecting homeland security resulting directly from man-made, technological or natural causes.

(c) “Local agency” means any municipality, county or special district.

(d) “Local emergency” means the existence of conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within a county or municipality proclaimed by the local governing body in accordance with Section 33-15-17(d).

(e) “Governor’s authorized representative” means the primary and alternate emergency management official designated by the Governor to administer federal assistance programs on behalf of the state and local governments and other grant or loan recipients and is responsible for the state compliance with the FEMA-State Agreement.

(f) “Project” means the repair or restoration, or both, other than normal maintenance, or the replacement of public real property of a local agency or a state agency, including, but not limited to, buildings, schools, levees, flood control works, channels, irrigation works, city streets, county roads, bridges and other public works, including those facilities used for recreation purposes, that are damaged or destroyed by a disaster.

(g) “Project application” means the written application made by a state or local agency to the director for federal and state financial assistance, which shall include all damage to public property that resulted from a disaster within the jurisdiction of the agency making application.

(h) “Project worksheet” means the appropriate federal form that must be used to prepare each eligible public assistance project identifying the scope of work and a quantitative estimate for the eligible work.

(i) “Regional response team” means the local government regional response teams, the state response team and the capitol complex response team.

(j) “State agency” means any agency, department, commission, board, institution or special district of the state.

(k) “State of emergency” means the existence of conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons or property within the state declared by the Governor in accordance with Section 33-15-11(b)(16).

(l) “Trust fund” means the Disaster Assistance Trust Fund.