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Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the State of Georgia

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of GEORGIA dated August 26, 2025. Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding.

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Small Business Administration

[Disaster Declaration #21251 and #21252; GEORGIA Disaster Number GA-20020]

AGENCY:

U.S. Small Business Administration.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of GEORGIA dated August 26, 2025.

Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding.

DATES:

Issued on August 26, 2025.

Incident Period: August 12, 2025.

Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: October 27, 2025.

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: May 26, 2026.

ADDRESSES:

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sharon Henderson, 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 disastercustomerservice@sba.gov 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: Catoosa.

Contiguous Counties:

Georgia: Walker, Whitfield.

Tennessee: Hamilton.

The Interest Rates are:

	Percent
For Physical Damage:
Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere	6.000
Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere	3.000
Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere	8.000
Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere	4.000
Non-Profit Organizations with Credit Available Elsewhere	3.625
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere	3.625
For Economic Injury:
Business and Small Agricultural Cooperatives without Credit Available Elsewhere	4.000
Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere	3.625
The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 212516 and for economic injury is 212520
The States which received an EIDL Declaration are Georgia, Tennessee

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008)

(Authority: 13 CFR 1234.3(b).)

James Stallings,

Associate Administrator, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience.

[FR Doc. 2025-16676 Filed 8-28-25; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8026-09-P

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“Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the State of Georgia,” thefederalregister.org (August 29, 2025), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2025-16676/administrative-declaration-of-a-disaster-for-the-state-of-georgia.