97-21687. State of Tennessee; (and Contiguous Counties in North Carolina)

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 158 (Friday, August 15, 1997)]
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster #9577]


State of Tennessee; (and Contiguous Counties in North Carolina)

    Cocke County and the contiguous Counties of Greene, Hamblen, 
Jefferson, and Sevier in the State of Tennessee, and Haywood, Madison, 
and Swain Counties 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, on the North Carolina side of Interstate 40 
and closed it 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 6, 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 economic injury number for North Carolina is 957800.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 59002.)

    Dated: August 6, 1997.
Ginger Lew,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 97-21687 Filed 8-14-97; 8:45 am]
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