[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 185 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)] [Notices] [Page 51111] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-25501] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION [Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster #9992] State of Alaska The Boroughs of Bristol Bay and Lake and Peninsula, and the Regional Education Attendance Areas of Lower Yukon (3), Lower Kuskokwim (4), Southwest Region (6), Iditarod (11), Yukon/Koyukuk (12), Yukon Flats (13), Alaska Gateway (16), Kashunamiut (22), and Yupiit (23), as well as the contiguous Boroughs of Aleutians East, Denali, Fairbanks North Star, Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Matanuska Susitna, North Slope and Northwest Arctic, and the contiguous Regional Education Attendance Areas of Bering Straits (2), Kuspuk (5), Delta/Greely (15), and Copper River (17 constitute an economic injury disaster area due to the effects of the warm water current known as El Nino beginning in May of 1997. Eligible small businesses and small agricultural cooperatives without credit available elsewhere may file applications for economic injury assistance for this disaster until the close of business on June 17, 1999 at the address listed below or other locally announced locations: Small Business Administration, Disaster Area 4 Office, P. O. Box 13795, Sacramento, CA 95853-4795. The interest rate for eligible small businesses and small agricultural cooperatives is 4 percent. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 59002.) Dated: September 17, 1998. Aida Alvarez, Administrator. [FR Doc. 98-25501 Filed 9-23-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8025-01-P