2024-05725. Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the State of Texas

AGENCY:

U.S. Small Business Administration.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of TEXAS dated 03/13/2024.

Incident: Smokehouse Creek Fire.

Incident Period: 02/26/2024 and continuing.

DATES:

Issued on 03/13/2024.

Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 05/13/2024.

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 12/13/2024.

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: Hemphill, Hutchinson.

Contiguous Counties:

Texas: Carson, Gray, Hansford, Lipscomb, Moore, Roberts, Sherman, Wheeler

Oklahoma: Roger Mills, Ellis

The Interest Rates are:

	Percent
For Physical Damage:
Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere	5.375
Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere	2.688
Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere	8.000
Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere	4.000
Non-Profit Organizations with Credit Available Elsewhere	3.250
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere	3.250
For Economic Injury:
Business and Small Agricultural Cooperatives without Credit Available Elsewhere	4.000
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere	3.250

The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 202235 and for economic injury is 202240.

The States which received an EIDL Declaration are Oklahoma, Texas.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008)

Isabella Guzman,

Administrator.