In response to the President's major disaster declarations with respect to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the attendant economic repercussions from those disasters, the SBA is revising its disaster loan regulations. This Interim Final Rule allows SBA to make economic injury disaster loans to eligible small business concerns outside the declared disaster areas that suffered substantial economic injury as a direct result of the destruction of the World Trade Center, New York, New York, or the damage to the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, or as a direct result of any related Federal action taken between September 11, 2001 and October 22, 2001. Because these affected small business concerns need economic injury disaster assistance quickly, SBA is issuing this regulation as an interim final rule.