[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 58275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28959]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Declaration of Disaster Loan Area #2909]


Commonwealth of Massachusetts (and Contiguous Counties in New 
Hampshire and Rhode Island); Declaration of Disaster Loan Area

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on 
October 25, 1996, I find that the Counties of Essex, Middlesex, 
Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
constitute a disaster area due to damages caused by extreme weather 
conditions and flooding which occurred on October 20, 1996 and 
continuing. Applications for loans for physical damages may be filed 
until the close of business on December 24, 1996, and for loans for 
economic injury until the close of business on July 25, 1997 at the 
address listed below:

U.S. Small Business Administration, Disaster Area 1 Office, 360 Rainbow 
Blvd., South 3rd Floor, 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: Barnstable, Bristol, and Worcester Counties in Massachusetts; 
Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties in New Hampshire; and Providence 
County in Rhode Island.
    Interest rates are:

For Physical Damage:                                             Percent
    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
                                                                        

    The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 290906. 
For economic injury the numbers are 924200 for Massachusetts, 924300 
for New Hampshire, and 924400 for Rhode Island.

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

    Dated: November 4, 1996.
James Rivera,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 96-28959 Filed 11-12-96; 8:45 am]
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