[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50068-50069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24417]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Declaration of Disaster Loan Area #2897]


West Virginia; Declaration of Disaster Loan Area

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on 
September 11, 1996, and an amendment thereto on September 13, I find 
that Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan, 
Pendleton, Randolph, and Tucker Counties in the State of West Virginia 
constitute a disaster area due to damages caused by Hurricane Fran and 
associated heavy rain, winds, flooding, and slides which occurred 
September 5-8, 1996. Applications for loans for physical damages may be 
filed until the close of business on November

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10, 1996, and for loans for economic injury until the close of business 
on June 11, 1997 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, Pocahontas, Preston, 
Upshur, and Webster Counties in West Virginia, and Allegany, Frederick, 
Garrett, and Washington Counties in Maryland.
    Any counties contiguous to the above-named counties and not listed 
herein have been covered under a separate declaration for the same 
occurrence.
    Interest rates are:

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                                                                 Percent
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For physical damage:                                                    
  Homeowners with credit available elsewhere..................     8.000
  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 289708. 
For economic injury the numbers are 918500 for West Virginia and 918600 
for Maryland.

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

    Dated: September 16, 1996.
Bernard Kulik,
Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 96-24417 Filed 9-23-96; 8:45 am]
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