97-27455. State of North Carolina

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 200 (Thursday, October 16, 1997)]
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster #9598]


State of North Carolina

    Buncombe and Haywood Counties and the contiguous Counties of 
Henderson, Jackson, Madison, McDowell, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, 
and Yancey in the State of North Carolina constitute an economic injury 
disaster loan area as a result of a rockslide that occurred on July 1, 
1997 closing Interstate 40 to all east and west traffic. 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 29, 1998 at the address 
listed below or other locally announced locations: U.S. Small Business 
Administration, Disaster Area 2 Office, One Baltimore Place, Suite 300, 
Atlanta, GA 30308.
    The interest rate for eligible small businesses and small 
agricultural cooperatives is 4 percent.
    The Tennessee counties contiguous to Haywood County have been 
previously declared for the same occurrence.

(Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 59002)

    Date: August 29, 1997
John T. Spotila,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 97-27455 Filed 10-15-97; 8:45 am]
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