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FREE VISA® Check Card FREE Internet Banking via FNB On-Line FIVE Convenient Locations EIGHT Convenient ATMs The First National Bank of Bryan also offers Government Guaranteed Student Loans: • Quick Student Loan Processing • Competitive Repayment Options • Loan Consolidations • Choose LoanSTAR® Lender #821359 Bankin ^ With A t Personal BRYAN/COLLEOE ST AT ION Member FDIC/Equal Opportunity Lender 8A Friday. September More than $20 billion promise Flow to New York slowt WASHINGTON <AP) — Soon after Sept. II. President Bush promised New York City more than $20 billion in federal aid. A year later, only a fraction of that money has been spent. Thousands of aid applications are silting in government offices, while the cash flow has been slowed by red tape and a lack of consensus over how to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Restrictive guidelines have prevented others from even qualifying for the money. Garment workers in .av they have been Chinatow neglected tions hav Smalt they h bu Y mortgage and were initially large numbers •It s an outi An/alone. wh« restaurant one World Trade C business after *1 think th money that h getting people w he ting the lea While have distri the $2.4 they have r federal go' out about roughly $ the wi d it si are eei- chan lie? Federal money dispersed inN, 1 New York City has bee?i allocated S20 9 billion rjg relief aid in five major gna help recover from the S*# 9 billion $8 8 biltion-Fedwi) Emergency Manage Agency IndoOes $1 4 MbcniM disaster deanupaig 52 7 billion to buMtv dowitown trantfltA $S billion- Liberty Zm Economic Develop** Plan Authon/es tax eienp bonds tor low*’ Uarrc rodevo4c<>m*nt 53 S billion- Depart-i Housing and Urban Development Provides grant non*! ousmesses and resor stay vi fowei Marmeir S2 3 billion- Depart-^ Tr ansporlation downtown transit hjc r SI .3 billion- Mrscefir* Inckides smal txami counseling hosprtae: worker's 11ITTpartMlf • Ag One federal grant program administered by the state has 26.000 applications pending. Of the 35.(XX) loan application packets sent out by the Small Business Administration, there have been only about 5.(XX) recipients. A grant program for small businesses only began dis tributing funds in March. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees $8.8 billion of New York’s Sept. I I aid. has drawn the most fire for being tightfisled. An agency accustomed to dealing with floods, hurricanes and earthquakes seemed intent in the months after Sept. 11 on not becoming the huge barrel of Washington pork said by critics to pay first and ask questions later. For the first time, the agency insisted that residents applying for mortgage and rental assis tance prove their losses were a “direct result” of the attacks, which meant rejecting 70 per cent of the initial applicants. Entities that did not fit neatly into FEMA guidelines such as private universities and New •EM A s since its .mu ft cted JTf! even MA* c.»s a \er\ iMflWrt or us, vol BrxJ ( slew York ( officer. “We’ve been r li»ok outside of the tr* w.ins of (fcahng withdisa Another factor tlu slowed the money is thei at Ground Zero, whicho lions of dollars less than ly expected. FEMA has had to redr money — much of it i rebuilding and upgrade city's transit system. Thov' eels w ill take years and scr them are dependent on fiw plans to rebuild the 16-actr' Guidelines for qualifying also been t<x> restrictive ir cases. Garment worker Chinatown have, for in& been left out because ® lacked the needed spe employment documentation | Senior Jarroc in the first q Vol By T Y The Tex. faces its tot young seasi Wisconsin I Aggies play against the Illinois State “We havi these tearr Wisconsin, unknowns,” Laurie Cort best for us b focus on wh “We hav< I that need to with little j other team.” No. 16 | revenge on I shocked the Call fight now, iTuotnt lonn Honini 1-800-829-4599 GIT CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF INVOLVEMENT! I \ / \ / \ 1 i ! X A,\\ MSC Open House Sunday, September 8 I \ A 2 - 6 P.MA / ; V V ; \ y \ / in the Memorial Student Center 350 student Organizations / / \ represented 1/ and looking for new members _ _ 4L for special assistance JJ- Call 845-1515 Catch the screening ot Snider-Man 7:00 in Rudder Theater Tickets available at the door $1 w/ Student ID
