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§636d Disaster Aid to Major Sources of Employment

Title 15 › CHAPTER 14A — AID TO SMALL BUSINESS › § 636d

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Small Business Administration (for nonfarm businesses) and the Farmers Home Administration (for farms) can make loans to businesses that were major local employers but stopped operating because a major disaster. Loans can be as large as needed to restart operations and help the area's economy. Normal limits on loan size do not apply. These loans are extra to other federal disaster help, though officials may change other aid. Loans follow the usual disaster-loan interest rules. The President can delay principal and interest payments for up to three years, and delayed payments still accrue interest.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §636d

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(a)Loans to disaster areas
The Small Business Administration in the case of a nonagricultural enterprise, and the Farmers Home Administration in the case of an agricultural enterprise, are authorized to provide any industrial, commercial, agricultural, or other enterprise, which has constituted a major source of employment in an area suffering a major disaster and which is no longer in substantial operation as a result of such disaster, a loan in such amount as may be necessary to enable such enterprise to resume operations in order to assist in restoring the economic viability of the disaster area. Loans authorized by this section shall be made without regard to limitations on the size of loans which may otherwise be imposed by any other provision of law or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
(b)Interest; deferred payments
Assistance under this section shall be in addition to any other Federal disaster assistance, except that such other assistance may be adjusted or modified to the extent deemed appropriate by the Director under the authority of section 4418 of title 42. Any loan made under this section shall be subject to the interest requirements of section 636b of this title, but the President, if he deems it necessary, may defer payments of principal and interest for a period not to exceed three years after the date of the loan. Any such deferred payments shall bear interest at the rate determined under section 636b of this title.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 4418 of title 42, referred to in subsec. (b), was repealed by Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 603, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 164. Provisions similar to former section 4418 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, are contained in section 5155 of Title 42. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Disaster Relief Act of 1970, and not as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 4456 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 1, 1969, see section 304 of Pub. L. 91–606, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1970 Amendment note under section 165 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 636d

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110