Excerpt from Hearing on the Small Business Administration's 7(a) Guaranteed Business Loan Program and Disaster Assistance Loan Program: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on Hearing on the Small Business Administration's 7(a) Guaranteed Business Loan Program and Disaster Assistance Loan Program, March 2, 1994 The sba implemented three changes to the disaster program that allowed us to respond more efficiently to the great Midwest flood. We expedited processing for victims Of the Midwest flood. Our goal was to reduce loan application. Processing time to between 7 and 20 days. We met this goal and were able to process home loan applications in an average of 7 days. We instituted a Simplified Disaster Business Loan Application. I would like to show you this. The darkened Spots are the parts that were eliminated. This is the disaster business loan, and this is the economic injury loan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.