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Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania dated September 22, 2025. Incident: Jefferson Apartment Complex Building Fire.

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Small Business Administration

[Disaster Declaration #21307 and #21308; PENNSYLVANIA Disaster Number PA-20024]

AGENCY:

U.S. Small Business Administration.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania dated September 22, 2025.

Incident: Jefferson Apartment Complex Building Fire.

DATES:

Issued on September 22, 2025.

Incident Period: September 9, 2025.

Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: November 21, 2025.

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: June 22, 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 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: Allegheny

Contiguous Counties:

Pennsylvania: Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Washington, Westmoreland.

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 213075 and for economic injury is 213080.

The Commonwealth which received an Administrative Declaration is Pennsylvania.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008)

(Authority: 13 CFR 123.3(b).)

James Stallings,

Associate Administrator, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience.

[FR Doc. 2025-18596 Filed 9-24-25; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8026-09-P

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“Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” thefederalregister.org (September 25, 2025), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2025-18596/administrative-declaration-of-a-disaster-for-the-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania.