[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Small Business Administration Interest Rates; Notice

    The Small Business Administration publishes an interest rate called 
the optional ``peg'' rate (13 CFR 120.214) on a quarterly basis. This 
rate is a weighted average cost of money to the government for 
maturities similar to the average SBA direct loan. This rate may be 
used as a base rate for guaranteed fluctuating interest rate SBA loans. 
This rate will be 6\5/8\ percent for the January-March quarter of FY 
97.
    Pursuant to 13 CFR 120.932, the maximum legal interest rate for a 
commercial loan which funds any portion of the cost of a project (see 
13 CFR 120.801) shall be 6% over the New York prime rate. The initial 
rate for a fixed rate loan shall be the legal rate for the term or the 
loan.
John. R. Cox,
Associate Administrator for Financial Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-2 Filed 1-2-97; 8:45 am]
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