DISASTER ASSISTANCE LOANS
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week Friday, SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West director, Tanya N. Garfield, reminded American Samoa small businesses that Dec. 3, 2018, is the deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by Gita.
In a statement, Garfield...

![This US Small Business Administration photo shows the SBA’s section on Mar. 13, 2018 at the now closed Disaster Recovery Center at the Pago Pago Community Youth Center that provided assistance to local residents impacted by Tropical Storm Gita that occurred Feb. 7-12 this year. [photo: SBA] SBA’s section on Mar. 13, 2018 at the now closed Disaster Recovery Center](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sba_n_gita_pix.jpg?itok=eSQsKX7I)