12984 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 46 / Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / Notices 

Dated: March 2, 2011. 

Ronald Y. Spraker, 

Associate General Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5274 Filed 3–8–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR 5478–N–01] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of a 

Computer Matching Program Between 

HUD and the United States Department 

of Veterans Affairs (VA) 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of a computer matching 

program between the HUD and VA. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as 

amended by the Computer Matching 

and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. 

L. 100–503), and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Guidelines on the Conduct of Matching 

Programs (June 19, 1989, 54 FR 25818), 

and OMB Bulletin 89–22, ‘‘Instructions 

on Reporting Computer Matching 

Programs to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), Congress and the 

Public,’’ HUD is issuing a public notice 

of its intent to conduct a recurring 

computer matching program with VA to 

utilize HUD’s Credit Alert Interactive 

Verification Response System (CAIVRS), 

with VA’s debtor files. Additionally, the 

record to be matched section was 

updated to reflect HUD’s new Privacy 

Act Systems of Records involved in the 

CAIVRS matching program. This update 

does not change the authority and the 

objectives of the existing HUD and VA 

computer matching program. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of the matching program shall begin 

April 8, 2011 or 40 days from the date 

copies of the signed (by both HUD and 

VA’s Data Integrity Boards (DIBs)) 

computer matching agreement is sent to 

both Housing of Congress and the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB), 

whichever is later, providing no 

comments are received which will 

result in a contrary determination. 

Comments Due Date: April 8, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, 

Office of General Counsel, HUD, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410. 

Communications should refer to the 

above docket number and title. A copy 

of each communication submitted will 

be available for public inspection and 

copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

weekdays at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

From the ‘‘Recipient Agency’’ contact 

the Chief Privacy Officer, HUD, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Room 2256, 

Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

number (202) 402–8073. From the 

‘‘Source Agency’’ contact Jorgeana 

Williams, Debt Management Center, 

U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, 

Bishop Henry Whipple Federal 

Building, Room 156E, 1 Federal Drive, 

Ft. Snelling, MN 55111, telephone 

number (612) 970–5703. These are not 

toll-free numbers. A telecommunication 

device for hearing- and speech-impaired 

individuals (TTY) is available at (800) 

877–8339 (Federal Information Relay 

Service). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD’s 

data in the CAIVRS database includes 

delinquent debt information from the 

Department of Education, Veterans 

Affairs, Department of Justice, and the 

Small Business Administration. This 

match will allow prescreening of 

applicants for debts owed or loans 

guaranteed by the Federal government 

to ascertain if the applicant is 

delinquent in paying a debt owed to or 

insured by the Federal government for 

HUD or VA direct or guaranteed loans. 

Before granting a loan, the lending 

agency and/or the authorized lending 

institution will be able to prescreen the 

CAIVRS debtor files which contains the 

Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of HUD 

and VA delinquent debtors and 

defaulters to verify that the loan 

applicant is not in default or delinquent 

on a direct or guaranteed loans of 

participating federal programs of either 

agency. As a result of the information 

produced by this match, the authorized 

users may not deny, terminate, or make 

a final decision of any loan assistance to 

an applicant or take other adverse action 

against such applicant, until an officer 

or employee of such agency has 

independently verified such 

information. 

Reporting of a Matching Program: In 

accordance with the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988 (Pub. L. 100–503), as amended, 

and Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), Congress and the Public;’’ copies 

of this notice and report are being 

provided to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), the Senate 

Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs, and the House 

Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform. 

Authority: The matching program will 

be conducted pursuant to ‘‘The 

Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100– 

503),’’ as amended, and OMB Circular 

A–129 (Revised January 1993), Policies 

for Federal Credit Program and Non-Tax 

Receivables. One of the purposes of all 

Executive departments and agenciesincluding HUD-is to implement efficient 

management practices for Federal credit 

programs. OMB Circular A–129 was 

issued under the authority of the Budget 

and Accounting Act of 1921, as 

amended; the Budget and Accounting 

Act of 1950, as amended; the Debt 

Collection Act of 1982, as amended; 

and, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, 

as amended. 

Objectives to Be Met by the Matching 

Program: The matching program will 

allow VA access to a system which 

permits prescreening of applicants for 

loans owed or guaranteed by the Federal 

government to ascertain if the applicant 

is delinquent in paying a debt owed to 

or insured by the Government. In 

addition, HUD will be provided access 

to VA debtor data for prescreening 

purposes. 

Records To Be Matched: HUD will use 

records from its systems of records 

HUD/SFH–01, Single Family Default 

Monitoring System; HUD/SFH–02, 

Single Family Insurance System 

CLAIMS Subsystem; HUD/HS–55, Debt 

Collection Asset Management System; 

and HUD/HS–59, Single Family 

Mortgage Asset Recovery Technology. 

The debtor files for programs involved 

are included in these systems of records. 

HUD’s debtor files contain information 

on borrowers and co-borrowers who are 

currently in default (at least 90 days 

delinquent on their loans) or who have 

had their partial claim subordinate 

mortgage called due and payable and it 

has not been repaid in full or who have 

any outstanding claims paid during the 

last three years on a Title I insured or 

guaranteed home mortgage loan. VA 

will provide HUD with data from 

88VA244, Accounts Receivable 

Records—VA. The exchange of data is 

consistent with routine use 17 of 

88VA244. The 88VA244, Accounts 

Receivable Records was originally 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 6, 1998 (63 FR 16865). VA is 

responsible for the integrity of the data 

transmitted to HUD. VA will retain 

ownership and responsibility for their 

system of records that they place with 

HUD. HUD serves only as a record 

location and routine use recipient for 

VA’s data. 

Notice Procedures: HUD and VA will 

notify individuals at the time of 

application (ensuring that routine use 

appears on the application form) for 

guaranteed or direct loans that their 


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records will be matched to determine 

whether they are delinquent or in 

default on a federal debt. HUD and VA 

will also publish notices concerning 

routine use disclosures in the Federal 

Register to inform individuals that a 

computer match may be performed to 

determine a loan applicant’s credit 

status with the federal government. 

Categories of Records/Individuals 

Involved: The debtor records include 

these data elements: SSN, claim 

number, program code, and indication 

of indebtedness. Categories of records 

include: Records of claims and defaults, 

repayment agreements, credit reports, 

financial statements, and records of 

foreclosures. Categories of individuals 

include: Former mortgagors and 

purchasers of HUD-owned and home 

improvement loan debtors who are 

delinquent or default on their loans or 

who have had their partial claim 

subordinate mortgage called due and 

payable and it has not been repaid in 

full. 

Period of the Match: Matching is 

expected to begin at least 40 days from 

the date copies of the signed (by both 

HUD and VA’s Data Integrity Boards) 

computer matching agreement are sent 

to both Houses of Congress or at least 30 

days from the date this notice is 

published in the Federal Register, 

which ever is later, providing no 

comments are received which would 

result in a contrary determination. The 

matching program will be in effect and 

continue for 18 months with an option 

to renew the agreement for 12 additional 

months unless one of the parties to the 

agreement advises the other in writing 

to terminate or modify the agreement. 

Dated: February 28, 2011. 

Kevin R. Cooke, 

Deputy Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5265 Filed 3–8–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5466–N–01] 

Request for Comments on Trend 

Factor Methodology Used in the 

Calculation of Fair Market Rents 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy Development and 

Research, HUD. 

ACTION: Request for Public Comments on 

the methodology used to calculate the 

trend factor component of the Fair 

Market Rent estimates. 

SUMMARY: Section 8(c)(1) of the United 

States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA) 

requires the Secretary to publish FMRs 

periodically, but not less than annually, 

for effect on October 1 of each year. 

Today’s notice requests public comment 

regarding the manner in which HUD 

calculates the trend factor used in the 

Fair Market Rent (FMR) estimates to 

meet the statutory requirement that 

FMRs be ‘‘trended so the rentals will be 

current for the year to which they 

apply’’. HUD provides several proposed 

alternatives to the current trend factor 

and requests comments on these 

alternatives as well as suggestions of 

other ideas. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: April 8, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

HUD’s alternative proposals for trending 

FMRs and/or other ideas for trending 

FMRs, to the Office of General Counsel, 

Rules Docket Clerk, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0001. 

Communications must refer to the above 

docket number and title and should 

contain the information specified in the 

‘‘Request for Comments’’ section. There 

are two methods for submitting public 

comments: 

1. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

2. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments electronically through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. HUD 

strongly encourages commenters to 

submit comments electronically. 

Electronic submission of comments 

allows the commenter maximum time to 

prepare and submit a comment, ensures 

timely receipt by HUD, and enables 

HUD to make them immediately 

available to the public. Comments 

submitted electronically through the 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site can 

be viewed by other commenters and 

interested members of the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile 

(FAX) comments are not acceptable. 

Public Inspection of Public 

Comments. All properly submitted 

comments and communications 

submitted to HUD will be available for 

public inspection and copying between 

8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above 

address. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled by calling 

the Regulations Division at 202–708– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

Individuals with speech or hearing 

impairments may access this number 

through TTY by calling the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. Copies of all comments submitted 

are available for inspection and 

downloading at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information on the current 

methodology used to develop FMRs or 

a listing of all FMRs, please call the 

HUD USER information line at (800) 

245–2691 or access the information on 

the HUD Web site http:// 

www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html. Also at this Web address, 

HUD maintains detailed on-line 

documentation systems that catalog 

each step in the calculation of FMRs for 

any area of the country selected by the 

user. 

Electronic Data Availability: This 

Federal Register notice is available 

electronically from the HUD User page 

at http://www.huduser.org/datasets/ 

fmr.html. Federal Register notices also 

are available electronically from http:// 

www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html, the 

U.S. Government Printing Office Web 

site. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 8 of the USHA (42 U.S.C. 

1437f) authorizes housing assistance to 

aid lower-income families in renting 

safe and decent housing. Housing 

assistance payments are limited by 

FMRs established by HUD for different 

geographic areas. In the Housing Choice 

Voucher (HCV) program, the FMR is the 

basis for determining the ‘‘payment 

standard amount’’ used to calculate the 

maximum monthly subsidy for an 

assisted family (see 24 CFR 982.503). In 

general, the FMR for an area is the 

amount that would be needed to pay the 

gross rent (shelter rent plus utilities) of 

privately owned, decent, and safe rental 

housing of a modest (non-luxury) nature 

with suitable amenities. In addition, all 

rents subsidized under the HCV 

program must meet reasonable rent 

standards. 

Section 8(c) of the USHA requires the 

Secretary of HUD to publish FMRs 

periodically, but not less frequently 

than annually. Section 8(c) states, in 

part, as follows: 

Proposed fair market rentals for an area 

shall be published in the Federal Register 

with reasonable time for public comment and 


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