[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 77 (Tuesday, April 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 19637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10295]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #2948]


State of North Dakota

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on April 
7, 1997, I find that the following counties in the State of North 
Dakota constitute a disaster area due to damages caused by severe 
flooding, severe winter storms, heavy spring rain, rapid snowmelt, high 
winds, ice jams and ground saturation due to high water tables 
beginning February 28, 1997 and continuing: Adams, Barnes, Benson, 
Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, 
Divide, Dunn, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Golden Valley, Grand Forks, Grant, 
Griggs, Hettinger, Kidder, Lamoure, Logan, McHenry, McIntosh, McKenzie, 
McLean, Mercer, Morton, Mountrail, Nelson, Oliver, Pembina, Pierce, 
Ramsey, Ransom, Renville, Richland, Rolette, Sargent, Sheridan, Sioux, 
Slope, Stark, Steele, Stutsman, Towner, Traill, Walsh, Ward, Wells, and 
Williams. Applications for loans for physical damages may be filed 
until the close of business on June 6, 1997, and for loans for economic 
injury until the close of business on January 7, 1998 at the address 
listed below or other locally announced locations: U.S. Small Business 
Administration, Disaster Area 3 Office 4400 Amon Carter Blvd., Suite 
102, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
    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: Clay, Kittson, 
Marshall, Norman, Polk, and Wilkin in the State of Minnesota; and 
Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan, and Wibaux in the State of Montana. 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 294806. 
For economic injury, the numbers are 946200 for North Dakota, 946400 
for Minnesota, 946500 for Montana.

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

    Dated: April 14, 1997.
Herbert Mitchell,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-10295 Filed 4-21-97; 8:45 am]
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