[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 6678]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3799]



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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Declaration of Disaster Loan Area #2827]


West Virginia; Declaration of Disaster Loan Area

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on 
January 25, 1996, and amendments thereto on January 30 and February 2, 
I find that the Counties of Berkeley, Brooke, Grant, Greenbriar, 
Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Jefferson, Marshall, Manson, Mercer, 
Mineral, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, 
Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Summers, Tucker, Tyler, Webster, Wetzel, 
and Wood in the State of West Virginia constitute a disaster area due 
to damages caused by flooding which occurred January 19 through 
February 2, 1996. Applications for loans for physical damages may be 
filed until the close of business on March 25, 1996, and for loans for 
economic injury until the close of business on October 25, 1996 at the 
address listed below: U.S. Small Business Administration, Disaster Area 
1 Office, 360 Rainbow Blvd. South, 3rd Fl., Niagara Falls, NY 14303 or 
other locally announced locations. In addition, applications for 
economic injury loans from small businesses located in the following 
contiguous counties may be filed until the specified date at the above 
location: Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Harrison, 
Jackson, Marion, McDowell, Monongalia, Putnam, Raleigh, Ritchie, 
Taylor, Upshur, Wirt, and Wyoming in West Virginia; and Bland, Giles, 
and Tazewell Counties in Virginia.
    Interest rates are:

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                                                                 Percent
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For Physical Damage:                                                    
  Homeowners with credit available elsewhere..................      8.00
  Homeowners without credit available elsewhere...............     4.000
  Businesses with credit available elsewhere..................     8.000
  Businesses and non-profit organizations without credit                
   available elsewhere........................................     4.000
  Others (including non-profit organizations) with credit               
   available elsewhere........................................     7.125
For Economic Injury:                                                    
  Businesses and small agricultural cooperatives without                
   credit available elsewhere.................................     4.000
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    The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 282706 
and for economic injury the numbers are 873800 for West Virginia and 
873900 for Virginia.
    Any counties contiguous to the above-named primary counties and not 
listed herein, have been declared under a separate declaration for the 
same occurrence.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 59002 and 
59008)

    Dated: February 9, 1996.
Bernard Kulik,
Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 96-3799 Filed 2-20-96; 8:45 am]
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