[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 13207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6841]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Declaration of Disaster #2938]


State of West Virginia

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on March 
7, 1997 I find that the following counties in the State of West 
Virginia constitute a disaster area due to damages caused by heavy 
rains, wind driven rain, high winds, flooding, and slides beginning on 
February 28, 1997 and continuing: Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, 
Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Roane, Tyler, Wayne, 
Wetzel, Wirt, and Wood. Applications for loans for physical damages may 
be filed until the close of business on May 6, 1997, and for loans for 
economic injury until the close of business on December 8, 1997 at the 
address listed below or other locally announced locations: U.S. Small 
Business Administration, Disaster Area 1 Office, 360 Rainbow Blvd. 
South, 3rd Fl., Niagara Falls, NY 14303.
    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: Boone, Doddridge, 
Fayette, Harrison, Lewis, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mingo, Monongalia, 
Nicholas, Pleasants, Raleigh, Ritchie, and Webster Counties in West 
Virginia; Greene County, Pennsylvania; and Martin County, Kentucky. Any 
counties contiguous to the above-named primary 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.................      7.625
  HOMEOWNERS WITHOUT CREDIT AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE..............      3.875
  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                                               7.250
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 293806. 
For economic injury the numbers are 943600 for West Virginia; 943700 
for Pennsylvania; and 943800 for Kentucky.

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

    Dated: March 12, 1997.
Herbert L. Mitchell,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-6841 Filed 3-18-97; 8:45 am]
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