Small Business Administration out of Funds

John Cornelison
April 16, 2020

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SBA announced that it is out funds after only two weeks, and is not accepting applications from small businesses. 1,637,000 applications valued at $339 Billion were accepted. This affects island business looking for relief through Payroll Protection Program. Applications for the PPP funds commenced April 3. Applicants were initially taken only from for profit entities. Nonprofits applications followed the following week.

Congress continues to debate additional funding.

-- From Sam Williams

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Quake most expensive yet

John Cornelison
3/15/11
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Japan , Insurance , Earthquakes , Funding

Losses from the quake, tsunami and fires will total at least $100 billion, including $20 billion in damage to residences and $40 billion in damage to infrastructure such as roads, rail and port facilities, catastrophe modeling firm Eqecat estimated.

Draft “Task Books” for Key Incident Command System Positions Available for Comment

It appears that the ICS Task Books that help evaluators judge ICS performance (2007 versions are online at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/ICSResource/PositionChecklists.htm) have been newly revised in April 2011, and are now published as a draft docket currently undergoing a comment period as detailed in the October 4th Federal Register. These may be revisions of the original 1993 Wildland Fire evaluation forms that are still on the Department of Labor’s OSHA site.