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Please see the attached news release reminding businesses in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia that working capital loans are still available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives and most private non-profit organizations that were affected by Hurricane Irene that occurred on Aug. 25 through Sept. 1, 2011.
These working capital loans are available to businesses and non-profit organizations in the following counties: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Granville, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Tyrrell, Vance, Wake, Warren, Washington, Wayne and Wilson counties in North Carolina; Dillon and Horry counties in South Carolina; and the counties of Brunswick, Greensville, Mecklenburg, Southampton and the Independent Cities of Chesapeake, Suffolk and Virginia Beach in Virginia.
Please feel free to distribute to any of your local contacts so that we can make the widest distribution.
To obtain disaster loan information and application forms, call the SBA’s Customer Service Center at 800-659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) or send an e-mail to disastercustomerservice@sba.gov. Loan application forms can also be downloaded from www.sba.gov. Completed applications should be mailed to: U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
Those affected by the disaster may also apply for disaster loans electronically from the SBA’s website at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/.
The deadline to return economic injury applications is May 31, 2012.
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