Update: Mingo, Wayne County Small Businesses and PNPs eligible for SBA Loans

Fact Sheet: Severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides beginning on July 26, 2022 and continuing

​8/2/2022: SBA press release

ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today that Floyd and Pike counties are now included as primary counties in the disaster declaration in Eastern Kentucky, and the SBA will open three Business Recovery Centers (BRCs) this week. One BRC opens in Perry County Wednesday, Aug. 3, and BRCs in Clay and Letcher counties open Thursday, Aug. 4. The BRCs are established to provide one-on-one assistance in submitting a disaster loan application for Kentucky businesses impacted by the severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides that began July 26.

The disaster declaration covers Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Perry and Pike Counties in Kentucky, which are eligible for both Physical and Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the SBA. Small businesses and most private nonprofit organizations in the following adjacent counties are eligible to apply only for SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs): Bell, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley and Wolfe in Kentucky; Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise in Virginia; and Mingo and Wayne counties in West Virginia. 

The SBA's Business Recovery Centers will be open as indicated below until further notice: