[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 160 (Thursday, August 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50263-50264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20875]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster #9I06]


State of Alaska

    The Regional Education Attendance Areas (REAAs) of Bering Straits 
(#2), Lower Yukon (#3), Lower Kuskokwim (#4), Kuspuk (#5), Iditarod 
(#11), Yukon-Koyukuk (#12), Yukon Flats (13), and Yupiit (#23), as well 
as the contiguous Boroughs of Bristol Bay, Denali, Fairbanks North 
Star, Kenai Peninsula, Lake and Peninsula, Matanuska Susitna, North 
Slope, and Northwest Arctic, and the contiguous REAAs of Alaska Gateway 
(#16) and Kashunamiut (#22) constitute an economic injury disaster area 
as a result of a fishery resource disaster, as determined by the 
Secretary of Commerce, due to extremely low salmon returns beginning in 
1997 and continuing. 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 May 9, 2001 at the address listed below or other locally 
announced locations: U.S. 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)


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    Dated: August 9, 2000.
Kris Swedin,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 00-20875 Filed 8-16-00; 8:45 am]
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