[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 52435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22424]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster 9W74]


State of Montana

    Flathead, Glacier, Lake, Lewis & Clark, Lincoln, Sanders and Teton 
Counties and the contiguous Counties of Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, 
Jefferson, Meagher, Mineral, Missoula, Pondera, Powell and Toole 
Counties in the State of Montana; and Bonner, Boundary and Shoshone 
Counties in the State of Idaho constitute an economic injury disaster 
loan area as a result of forest fires that began on July 23, 2003 and 
continue to burn. The forest fires caused the closures of the entrances 
to Glacier National Park and have caused several businesses to suffer 
substantial economic losses. 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 26, 2004 at the address 
listed below or other locally announced locations:

Small Business Administration, Disaster Area 3 Office, 14925 Kingsport 
Road, FT. Worth, TX 76155-2243.

    The interest rate for eligible small businesses and small 
agricultural cooperatives is 2.953 percent.
    The number assigned for economic injury for this disaster is 9W7400 
for the State of Montana and 9W7500 for the State of Idaho.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 59002)

    Dated: August 26, 2003.
Hector V. Barreto,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 03-22424 Filed 9-2-03; 8:45 am]
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