2023-26011. Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the State of Arkansas

AGENCY:

U.S. Small Business Administration.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Arkansas dated 11/17/2023.

Incident: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, and Tornadoes.

Incident Period: 06/25/2023 through 06/26/2023.

DATES:

Issued on 11/17/2023.

Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 01/16/2024.

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 08/19/2024.

ADDRESSES:

Visit the MySBA Loan Portal at https://lending.sba.gov to apply for a disaster assistance loan.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Vanessa Morgan, Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience, U.S. Small Business Administration, 409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050, Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice is hereby given that as a result of the Administrator's disaster declaration, applications for disaster loans may be submitted online using the MySBA Loan Portal https://lending.sba.gov or other locally announced locations. Please contact the SBA disaster assistance customer service center by email at [e-mail] or by phone at 1–800–659–2955 for further assistance.

The following areas have been determined to be adversely affected by the disaster:

Primary Counties: Lonoke, Poinsett.

Contiguous Counties: Arkansas.

Arkansas, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner, Jackson, Jefferson, Mississippi, Prairie, Pulaski, White

The Interest Rates are:

	Percent
For Physical Damage:
Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere	5.000
Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere	2.500
Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere	8.000
Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere	4.000
Non-Profit Organizations with Credit Available Elsewhere	2.375
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere	2.375
For Economic Injury:
Business and Small Agricultural Cooperatives without Credit Available Elsewhere	4.000
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere	2.375

The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 20102B and for economic injury is 201030.

The State which received an EIDL Declaration is Arkansas.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008)

Isabella Guzman,

Administrator.