ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) are available in Massachusetts for small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations with economic losses due to excessive rain from July through Oct. 31, 2023.

The declaration includes the primary counties of Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and Worcester and the contiguous counties of: Barnstable, Dukes, Plymouth, Suffolk in Massachusetts; Hartford, Litchfield, Windham and Tolland in Connecticut; Cheshire, Hillsborough and Rockingham in New Hampshire; Rensselaer, Dutchess and Columbia in New York; Kent, Providence, Newport and Bristol in Rhode Island; and Windham and Bennington in Vermont.