SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Small nonfarm businesses in 194 Texas counties and neighboring counties in New Mexico and Oklahoma are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Gar- field of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by excessive heat in the following primary counties that occurred from May 1 - Sept. 30, 2022.
Primary Texas counties: Anderson, Aransas, Armstrong, Austin, Baylor, Bee, Bexar, Bra- zos, Briscoe, Burleson, Calhoun, Carson, Castro, Chambers, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Collin, Colorado, Concho, Cooke, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Denton, Dewitt, Duval, Ector, Ellis, Fannin, Floyd, Foard, Gaines, Glasscock, Gray, Grayson, Grimes, Hansford, Hardeman, Hardin, Harris, Haskell, Hemphill, Hill, Houston, Howard, Hutchinson, Jack, Jackson, Karnes, Kleberg, Lamar, Lamb, Leon, Liberty, Live Oak, Lynn, Madison, Martin, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Midland, Mitchell, Montgomery, Navarro, Nueces, Oldham, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Robertson, San Patricio, Schleicher, Scurry, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Val Verde, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Wheeler, Wilbarger, Yoakum and Young; Neighboring Texas counties: Andrews, Angelina, Archer, Atascosa, Bailey, Bandera, Bor- den, Bosque, Brazoria, Brooks, Cherokee, Coleman, Collingsworth, Comal, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Dallas, Delta, Dickens, Dimmit, Donley, Edwards, Falls, Fayette, Fisher, Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Galveston, Garza, Goliad, Gon - zales, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hartley, Henderson, Hockley, Hunt, Irion, Jasper, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Kaufman, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kimble, King, Kinney, Knox, La Salle, Lavaca, Lee, Limestone, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Mason, Matagorda, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, Milam, Montague, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Orange, Palo Pinto, Parker, Parmer, Polk, Reagan, Red River, Refugio, Rockwall, Runnels, San Jacinto, Shackelford, Sherman, Stephens, Swisher, Tarrant, Terrell, Trinity, Tyler, Upton, Uvalde, Ward, Wichita, Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Zapata and Zavala; Neighboring New Mexico counties: Curry, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt; “SBA eligibility covers both the economic impacts on businesses dependent on farmers and ranchers that have suffered agricultural production losses caused by the disaster and businesses directly impacted by the disaster,” Garfield said.
Small nonfarm businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private nonprofit organizations of any size may qualify for Economic
