[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 188 (Monday, September 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56035-56036]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-24543]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster 3547]


State of Maryland

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on 
September 19, 2003, I find that the Independent City of

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Baltimore, and Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, 
Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, 
Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Somerset, St. 
Mary's, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester Counties in the 
State of Maryland constitute a disaster area due to damages caused by 
Hurricane Isabel occurring on September 18, 2003 and continuing. 
Applications for loans for physical damage as a result of this disaster 
may be filed until the close of business on November 18, 2003 and for 
economic injury until the close of business on June 21, 2004 at the 
address listed below or other locally announced locations:

U.S. Small Business Administration, Disaster Area 1 Office, 360 Rainbow 
Blvd., South 3rd Fl., Niagara Falls, NY 14303-1192.

    In addition, applications for economic injury loans from small 
businesses located in the following contiguous counties may be filed 
until the specified date at the above location: the District of 
Columbia; Kent, New Castle and Sussex counties in the State of 
Delaware; Adams, Bedford, Chester, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, 
Lancaster, Somerset and York counties in the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania; the Independent City of Alexandria and Accomack, Fairfax, 
King George, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford counties in the 
Commonwealth of Virginia; and Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Jefferson, 
Mineral, Morgan, Preston and Tucker counties in the State of West 
Virginia.
    The interest rates are:

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                                                                Percent
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For Physical Damage:
  Homeowners with credit available elsewhere.................      5.125
  Homeowners without credit available elsewhere..............      2.562
  Businesses with credit available elsewhere.................      6.199
  Businesses and non-profit organizations without credit           3.100
   available elsewhere.......................................
  Others (including non-profit organizations) with credit          5.500
   available elsewhere.......................................
For Economic Injury:
  Businesses and small agricultural cooperatives without           3.100
   credit available elsewhere................................
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    The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 354708. 
For economic injury the number is 9X0500 for Maryland; 9X0900 for 
District of Columbia; 9X1000 for Delaware; 9X0700 for Pennsylvania; 
9X0100 for Virginia; and 9X0800 for West Virginia.

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

    Dated: September 22, 2003.
Cheri L. Cannon,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-24543 Filed 9-26-03; 8:45 am]
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