[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 13205]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6907]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #2932]


State of Arkansas

    As a result of the President's major disaster declaration on March 
2, 1997, and amendments thereto on March 4 and 5, I find that Clark, 
Cross, Greene, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Jackson, Lonoke, Mississippi, 
Nevada, Poinsett, Pulaski, Saline, and White Counties in the State of 
Arkansas constitute a disaster area due to damages caused by severe 
storms and tornadoes beginning on March 1 and continuing through March 
4, 1997. Applications for loans for physical damages may be filed until 
the close of business on May 1, 1997, and for loans for economic injury 
until the close of business on December 2, 1997 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, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
    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: Arkansas, Clay, 
Cleburne, Columbia, Craighead, Crittenden, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland, 
Grant, Howard, Independence, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Little 
River, Montgomery, Miller, Ouachita, Perry, Pike, Prairie, Randolph, 
Sevier, St. Francis, and Woodruff Counties in Arkansas; Dunklin and 
Pemiscot Counties in Missouri; and Dyer, Lauderdale, Shelby, and Tipton 
Counties in Tennessee.
    Interest rates are:

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                                                               Percent  
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For Physical Damage:                                                    
  Homeowners With Credit Available Elsewhere...............        7.625
  Homeowners Without Credit Available Elsewhere............        3.875
  Businesses With Credit Available Elsewhere...............         8.00
  Businesses and Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit                
   Available Elsewhere.....................................        4.000
  Others (Including Non-Profit Organizations) With Credit               
   Available Elsewhere.....................................        7.250
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 293212. 
For economic injury the numbers are 939000 for Arkansas, 939100 for 
Missouri, and 942900 for Tennessee.

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

    Dated: March 11, 1997.
Herbert L. Mitchell,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-6907 Filed 3-18-97; 8:45 am]
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