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Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08198 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #14261 and #14262] 

Tennessee Disaster #TN–00087 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a Notice of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for Public Assistance Only for 

the State of Tennessee (FEMA–4211– 

DR), dated 04/02/2015. 

Incident: Severe winter storm and 

flooding. 

Incident Period: 02/15/2015 through 

02/22/2015. 

Effective Date: 04/02/2015. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 06/01/2015. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 01/04/2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to U.S. Small Business 

Administration Processing and 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that as a result of the 

President’s major disaster declaration on 

04/02/2015, Private Non-Profit 

organizations that provide essential 

services of governmental nature may file 

disaster loan applications at the address 

listed above or other locally announced 

locations. 

The following areas have been 

determined to be adversely affected by 

the disaster: 

Primary Counties: Anderson; Bedford; 

Bledsoe; Blount; Campbell; Clay; 

Coffee; Cumberland; Fentress; Giles; 

Grainger; Grundy; Hamblen; Hancock; 

Hardeman; Jefferson; Knox; Lawrence; 

Loudon; Marshall; Mcminn; Mcnairy; 

Meigs; Monroe; Moore; Morgan; 

Obion; Overton; Putnam; Roane; 

Scott; Sevier; Van Buren; Warren; 

White. 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

For Physical Damage: 

Non-Profit Organizations With 

Credit Available Elsewhere ..... 2.625 

Non-Profit Organizations Without 

Credit Available Elsewhere ..... 2.625 

For Economic Injury: 

Percent 

Non-Profit Organizations Without 

Credit Available Elsewhere ..... 2.625 

The number assigned to this disaster for 

physical damage is 14261B and for economic 

injury is 14262B. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

James E. Rivera, 

Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08334 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Announcement of Growth Accelerator 

Fund Competition 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA) announces the 

2015 Growth Accelerator Fund 

Competition, pursuant to the America 

Competes Act, to identify the nation’s 

most innovative accelerators and similar 

organizations and award them cash 

prizes they may use to fund their 

operations costs and allow them to bring 

startup companies to scale and new 

ideas to life. 

DATES: The submission period for 

entries begins 12:00 p.m. EDT, April 10, 

2015 and ends June 1, 2015 at 11:59 

p.m. EDT. Winners will be announced 

no later than August 24, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nareg Sagherian, Office of Investment 

and Innovation, U.S. Small Business 

Administration, 409 Third Street SW., 

6th Floor, Washington, DC 20416, (202) 

205–7576, accelerators@sba.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Competition Details 

1. Subject of Competition: The SBA is 

seeking to identify the nation’s most 

innovative and promising small 

business accelerators and incubators in 

order to infuse them with additional 

resource capital that ultimately 

stimulates the growth and development 

of startups from within the 

entrepreneurial communities they serve. 

For the purposes of this competition, 

Growth Accelerators include 

accelerators, incubators, co-working 

startup communities, shared tinkerspaces or other models to accomplish 

similar goals. Regardless of the specific 

model employed, Growth Accelerators 

focus on helping entrepreneurs and 

their startups speed the launch, growth 

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and scale of their businesses. A broad 

set of models used to support start-ups 

will better serve the entire 

entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether an 

accelerator is industry focused, 

technology focused, product centric, 

cohort based or more long term, all are 

valuable players in the nation’s highgrowth entrepreneurial ecosystem that 

ultimately creates jobs. 

2. Eligibility Rules for Participating in 

the Competition: This Competition is 

open only to private entities, such as 

corporations or non-profit organizations 

that are incorporated in and maintain a 

primary place of business in the United 

States. Entities that have an outstanding, 

unresolved financial obligation to, or 

that are currently suspended or 

debarred by, the federal government are 

not eligible for this Competition. 

Federal, state, local and tribal agencies 

are also not eligible for this 

Competition. Additionally, participants 

in this Competition must utilize models 

of operation that include most, if not all, 

of the following elements: 

• Selective process to choose 

participating startups. 

• Regular networking opportunities 

offered to startups. 

• Introductions to customers, 

partners, suppliers, advisory boards and 

other players. 

• High-growth and tech-driven 

startup mentorship and 

commercialization assistance. 

• Shared working environments 

focused on building a strong startup 

community. 

• Resource sharing and co-working 

arrangements for startups. 

• Opportunities to pitch ideas and 

startups to investors along with other 

capital formation avenues to startups. 

• Small amounts of angel money, 

seed capital or structured loans to 

startups. 

• Service to underserved 

communities, such as women, veterans, 

and economically disadvantaged 

individuals. 

3. Registration Process for 

Participants: Competition participants 

must submit their 2015 Growth 

Accelerator Fund applications online 

using the link designated for that 

purpose on challenge.gov, either by 

filtering search criteria to ‘‘Small 

Business Administration’’ or going to 

sba.gov/accelerators, where the link will 

be posted. In addition to the basic 

details collected in that short 

application form, contestants must also 

complete and submit via challenge.gov 

a deck, similar to one that would be 

used in a pitch competition, which must 

address all of the items identified 

below: 

Mission & Vision 

• What is your accelerator’s mission 

in one sentence? 

• What specific elements make your 

accelerator model stand out? 

• What experiences prepare your 

team for this? 

Impact 

• What gaps does or will your 

accelerator fill? 

• What are the specifics of your 

model and how it will accomplish the 

above? 

• For existing accelerators, what has 

been your success/metrics so far? 

• For existing accelerators, please 

explain your overall statistics of the 

start-up life cycle? 

Implementation 

• What is your plan for the prize 

money if you win? 

• If you are an existing accelerator 

using the funds to scale up, provide 

details of current operations, phases for 

scale up and Web site; or 

• If you are creating a new 

accelerator, provide basics of business 

plan and phases for implementation. 

• Aside from the founding team 

members, what do you look for in staff? 

• What are the largest risk factors you 

see? 

Metrics 

• What are your fundraising goals or 

metrics? (aside from the 4-to-1 match) 

• Is there a plan in place to secure/ 

work to secure funds (cash, in-kind 

donations, or sponsorships) in a 4-to-1 

proportion to the prize dollars received? 

• Aside from metrics required by 

SBA, what are 5 key metrics you will 

use to self-evaluate? 

• What does success look like? 

4. Prizes for Winners: SBA anticipates 

awarding up to 80 market stimulation 

cash prizes of $50,000 each to the 

highest-rated contestants that also 

represent the greatest degree of 

achieving national geographic 

distribution in both urban and rural 

areas. Additionally, SBA anticipates 

awarding up to 8 market stimulation 

cash prizes of $50,000 each to the 

highest-rated contestants that are 

focused in Native American populations 

(American Indian, Alaska Native or 

Native Hawaiian). Prizes will be paid in 

lump sum via the Automated Clearing 

House (ACH). Winners will be required 

to create an account in the System for 

Award Management (SAM) in order to 

receive an award. 

5. Selection of Winners: Winners will 

be selected based upon how well they 

address the criteria identified in Items 2 

and 3 of this Competition 

announcement. In addition, in order to 

achieve nationwide distribution of 

prizes for the purpose of stimulating the 

growth and development of startups 

across the entire United States, SBA 

may take into account applicants’ 

geographic locations and areas of 

service when selecting winners, 

including support to geographic regions 

that traditionally have limited access to 

capital, the underserved, women, the 

maker community, and American 

Indian, Alaska Native or Native 

Hawaiian populations. 

6. Applicable Law: This Challenge is 

being conducted by SBA pursuant to the 

America Competes Act (15 U.S.C. 3719) 

and is subject to all applicable federal 

laws and regulations. By participating in 

this Challenge, each contestant gives its 

full and unconditional agreement to the 

Official Rules and the related 

administrative decisions described in 

this notice, which are final and binding 

in all matters related to the Challenge. 

A contestant’s eligibility for a prize 

award is contingent upon their fulfilling 

all requirements identified in this 

notice. Publication of this notice is not 

an obligation of funds on the part of 

SBA. SBA reserves the right to modify 

or cancel this Challenge, in whole or in 

part, at any time prior to the award of 

prizes. 

7. Conflicts of Interest: No individual 

acting as a judge at any stage of this 

Challenge may have personal or 

financial interests in, or be an employee, 

officer, director, or agent of any 

contestant or have a familial or financial 

relationship with a contestant. 

8. Intellectual Property Rights: All 

entries submitted in response to this 

Challenge will remain the sole 

intellectual property of the individuals 

or organizations that developed them. 

By registering and entering a 

submission, each contestant represents 

and warrants that it is the sole author 

and copyright owner of the submission, 

and that the submission is an original 

work of the contestant, or if the 

submission is a work based on an 

existing application, that the contestant 

has acquired sufficient rights to use and 

to authorize others to use the 

submission, and that the submission 

does not infringe upon any copyright or 

upon any other third party rights of 

which the contestant is aware. 

9. Publicity Rights: By registering and 

entering a submission, each contestant 

consents to SBA’s and its agents’ use, in 

perpetuity, of its name, likeness, 

photograph, voice, opinions, and/or 

hometown and state information for 

promotional or informational purposes 

through any form of media, worldwide, 

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without further payment or 

consideration. 

10. Liability and Insurance 

Requirements: By registering and 

entering a submission, each contestant 

agrees to assume any and all risks and 

waive claims against the Federal 

Government and its related entities, 

except in the case of willful misconduct, 

for any injury, death, damage, or loss of 

property, revenue, or profits, whether 

direct, indirect, or consequential, arising 

from their participation in this 

Challenge, whether the injury, death, 

damage, or loss arises through 

negligence or otherwise. By registering 

and entering a submission, each 

contestant further represents and 

warrants that it possesses sufficient 

liability insurance or financial resources 

to cover claims by a third party for 

death, bodily injury, or property damage 

or loss resulting from any activity it 

carries out in connection with its 

participation in this Challenge, or 

claims by the Federal Government for 

damage or loss to Government property 

resulting from such an activity. 

Challenge winners should be prepared 

to demonstrate proof of insurance or 

financial responsibility in the event 

SBA deems it necessary. 

11. Record Retention and Disclosure: 

All submissions and related materials 

provided to SBA in the course of this 

Competition automatically become SBA 

records and cannot be returned. 

Contestants should identify any 

confidential commercial information 

contained in their entries at the time of 

their submission. 

Award Approving Official: Javier 

Saade, Associate Administrator, Office 

of Investment and Innovation, U.S. 

Small Business Administration, 409 

Third Street SW., Washington, DC 

20416. 

Authority: Pub. L. 111–358 (2011). 

Dated: April 6, 2015. 

Javier Saade, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Investment 

and Innovation. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08287 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #14257 and #14258] 

West Virginia Disaster #WV–00035 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a Notice of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for Public Assistance Only for 

the State of West Virginia (FEMA–4210– 

DR), dated 03/31/2015. 

Incident: Severe Winter Storm, 

Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides. 

Incident Period: 03/03/2015 through 

03/06/2015. 

Effective Date: 03/31/2015. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 06/01/2015. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 12/31/2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to: U.S. Small Business 

Administration Processing, And 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that as a result of the 

President’s major disaster declaration on 

03/31/2015, Private Non-Profit 

organizations that provide essential 

services of governmental nature may file 

disaster loan applications at the address 

listed above or other locally announced 

locations. 

The following areas have been 

determined to be adversely affected by 

the disaster: 

Primary Counties: 

Barbour; Boone; Braxton; Cabell; 

Doddridge; Gilmer; Harrison; 

Jackson; Kanawha; Lewis; Lincoln; 

Logan; Marshall; Mcdowell; Mingo; 

Monongalia; Putnam; Raleigh; 

Ritchie; Roane; Summers; Tyler; 

Upshur; Wayne; Webster; Wetzel; 

Wirt; Wood; Wyoming. 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

For Physical Damage: 

Non-Profit Organizations With 

Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.625 

Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 2.625 

For Economic Injury: 

Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 2.625 

The number assigned to this disaster for 

physical damage is 14257B and for economic 

injury is 14258B. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

James E. Rivera, 

Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08332 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Annual Meeting of the Regional Small 

Business Regulatory Fairness Boards; 

Office of the National Ombudsman 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA). 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting of the 

Regional Small Business Regulatory 

Fairness Boards. 

SUMMARY: The SBA, Office of the 

National Ombudsman is issuing this 

notice to announce the location, date, 

time and agenda for the annual board 

meeting of the ten Regional Small 

Business Regulatory Fairness Boards. 

The meeting is open to the public. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on: 

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. EDT and Wednesday, April 

29, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be at the 

DoubleTree by Hilton, 1515 Rhode 

Island Avenue NW., Director’s Room, 

2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20005–5595. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act (Pub. L. 104– 

121), Sec. 222, SBA announces the 

meeting of the Regional Small Business 

Regulatory Fairness Boards (Regional 

Regulatory Fairness Boards). The 

Regional Regulatory Fairness Boards are 

tasked to advise the National 

Ombudsman on matters of concern to 

small businesses relating to enforcement 

activities of agencies and to report on 

substantiated instances of excessive 

enforcement actions against small 

business concerns, including any 

findings or recommendations of the 

Board as to agency enforcement practice 

or policy. 

The purpose of the meeting is to 

discuss the following topics related to 

the Regional Regulatory Fairness 

Boards: 

—Introduction to the Regional 

Regulatory Fairness Boards and the 

Office of the National Ombudsman 

—Panel Discussion with Federal Agency 

Representatives 

—Facilitated discussion of ongoing 

regulatory issues for small business 

—FY2014 Outcomes 

—Office of Advocacy regulatory review 

—SBA update 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

meeting is open to the public; however 

advance notice of attendance is 

requested. Anyone wishing to attend 

and/or make a presentation to the 

Regulatory Fairness Boards must contact 

Jose ́ Me ́ndez, Case Management 

Specialist, by April 21, 2015, in writing 

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