Federal officials expect to wrap up their review of damage from this month’s flood by Friday.

Oxford and Piscataquis counties have already met the threshold to get Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance for the April 2-4 flood waters that damaged roads around Maine.

Joseph Albert, business manager for the Maine Emergency Management Agency, said he would submit a recommendation to Gov. John Baldacci on Saturday.

The state needs to prove that there was about $1.5 million in damage from the flooding to qualify for FEMA assistance. Once the state qualifies, individual counties need to show at least $2.84 damage per capita. That’s $294,772 in Androscoggin County, $83,686 in Franklin County and $155,504 in Oxford County.

Once the FEMA report is filed, Albert said, the state can ask to have the president declare qualifying counties as disaster areas. He should find out in May.

The state has already qualified for FEMA help to defray the cost of snow removal and sanding on Maine roads for three snowstorms in February and March. FEMA is reviewing a fourth storm, on March 11 and 12, to see if Maine qualifies for more assistance.

“These are probably not the only requests sitting on someone’s desk at FEMA,” Albert said. “You learn to be patient when you are dealing with things like this. I expect to be making payments for snowstorms in June and July.”