[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 196 (Friday, October 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 54510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27222]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #3133]


State of Louisiana; And Contiguous Counties in Mississippi and 
Texas

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on 
September 23, 1998, and amendments thereto on September 30, I find that 
the following Parishes in the State of Louisiana constitute a disaster 
area due to damages caused by Tropical Storm Francis and Hurricane 
Georges beginning on September 9, 1998 and continuing: Cameron, 
Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, 
St. John The Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and 
Washington. Applications for loans for physical damage may be filed 
until the close of business on November 22, 1998 and for economic 
injury until the close of business on June 23, 1999 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, Ft. Worth, TX 76155

    In addition, applications for economic injury loans from small 
businesses located in the following contiguous parishes and counties 
may be filed until the specified date at the above location: Ascension, 
Assumption, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson Davis, St. Charles, 
St. Helena, St. James, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes in the State of 
Louisiana; Amite, Hancock, Marion, Pearl River, Pike, and Walthall 
Counties in the State of Mississippi; and Jefferson and Orange Counties 
in the State of Texas.
    The interest rates are:

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                                                                Percent
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For Physical Damage:
  Homeowners With Credit Available Elsewhere.................      6.875
  Homeowners Without Credit Available Elsewhere..............      3.437
  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.......................................      7.125
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 313308. 
For economic injury the numbers are 9A1400 for Louisiana, 9A1500 for 
Texas, and 9A3000 for Mississippi.

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

    Dated: October 1, 1998,
Bernard Kulik,
Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 98-27222 Filed 10-8-98; 8:45 am]
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