Opportunity
Federal Register #2026-20544
SBA Disaster Loan Assistance for Eligible Ohio Residents, Businesses, and Nonprofits
Posted
October 07, 2026
Identifier
2026-20544
The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering disaster loan assistance to eligible Ohio residents and organizations affected by a major disaster. - Government buyer and administering office - U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Disaster Recovery. - Assistance available - Physical-damage loans for homeowners, businesses, and private nonprofit organizations. - Economic injury disaster loans (EIDL) for businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, and private nonprofit organizations. - Geographic eligibility - Physical-damage and economic-injury assistance: Clermont, Franklin, Hamilton, Licking, Morgan, Muskingum, and Perry counties in Ohio. - Economic-injury assistance only: Athens, Brown, Butler, Clinton, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Guernsey, Hocking, Knox, Madison, Noble, Pickaway, Union, Warren, and Washington counties in Ohio; Dearborn and Franklin counties in Indiana; and Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Kenton, and Pendleton counties in Kentucky. - Interest rates vary by applicant and loan category: 3% or 6% for homeowners, 4% or 8% for businesses receiving physical-damage loans, 3.625% for private nonprofits, and 4% for eligible businesses and small agricultural cooperatives receiving economic-injury loans. - No commercial OEMs, vendors, products, or procurement services are identified; this is a loan-assistance notice rather than a procurement opportunity.
Description
This notice announces the presidential declaration of a major disaster for Ohio (FEMA-4945-DR), issued October 2, 2026. The incident involved severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, flooding, and landslides, with an incident period of August 10 through August 22, 2026. Disaster loans may be submitted through the MySBA Loan Portal or at locally announced locations. The notice identifies affected counties and gives application deadlines of December 1, 2026, for physical damage loans and July 2, 2027, for economic injury loans.