1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i SBA Disaster Assistance for Civil Unrest March 3, 2021 The Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) has the authorityafter gubernatorial requests for disaster assistance, including for riots and civil disor
2、dersto issue disaster declarations authorized under the Small Business Act that activate the Small Business Administrations (SBA) Disaster Loan Program. This Insight provides information about SBA disaster declarations and SBA disaster loan types. Table 1 provides historical information on SBA disas
3、ter declarations for civil unrest incidents since 1967. The Small Business Act defines a disaster as In the case of civil unrest, the SBA Administrator may issue: (1) a physical disaster declaration, or (2) an Economic Injury Disaster Loan declaration. SBA Physical Disaster Declaration The SBA Admin
4、istrator determines whether to issue a SBA physical disaster declaration based on a minimum amount of uninsured physical damage to buildings, machinery, inventory, homes, and other property. Generally, this minimum is 25 homes or businesses (or some combination of the two) that have sustained uninsu
