[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 175 (Thursday, September 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 48541]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24326]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster #9980]


Commonwealth of Massachusetts (And a Contiguous County in the 
State of New Hampshire)

    Essex County and the contiguous counties of Middlesex and Suffolk 
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Rockingham County in the 
State of New Hampshire constitute an economic injury disaster loan area 
as a result of a fire that occurred on August 16, 1998 at the 
Fisherman's Wharf in the City of Gloucester. Eligible small businesses 
and small agricultural cooperatives without credit available elsewhere 
may file applications for economic injury assistance as a result of 
this disaster until the close of business on May 28, 1999 at the 
address listed below or other locally announced locations: U.S. Small 
Business Administration, Disaster Area 1 Office, 360 Rainbow Blvd, 
South 3rd Floor, Niagara Falls, NY 14303.
    The interest rate for eligible small businesses and small 
agricultural cooperatives is 4 percent. The numbers assigned for 
economic injury for this disaster are 998000 for Massachusetts and 
998100 for New Hampshire.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 59002)

    Dated: August 28, 1998.
Aida Alvarez,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 98-24326 Filed 9-9-98; 8:45 am]
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