**ASSESSMENT
      OF COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE SERVICING CRITERIA**





Newport
      Management Corporation (the “Asserting Party”) provides this assessment of
      compliance with respect to its performance of functions for the Applicable
      Servicing Criteria, as specified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB promulgated
      by
      the Securities and Exchange Commission, in regards to the loans selected in
      the
      Platform for the following Period:





Platform : Pools
      of
      loans, underlying publicly-issued residential mortgage-backed securities that
      were issued on or after January 1, 2006 by IndyMac Bank (“IndyMac”), on which
      escrow payments were disbursed in 2006, specifically Item 1122(d)(4)(xi), only
      as it relates to the “Applicable Servicing Criteria” described below ,
      and as
      disclosed by IndyMac to the Asserting Party (collectively, “Eligible Loans”, as
      identified in Schedule
      A ).





Period :
      As of
      and for the year ended December 31, 2006.





Applicable
      Servicing Criteria :
      the
      servicing criteria which applies to the functions performed by the Asserting
      Party is set forth in Section 229.1122(d)(4)(xi) (“Applicable Servicing
      Criteria”). With respect to the Applicable Servicing Criteria, the Asserting
      Party performs the following limited functions:


1.  Processes
      the obligor’s hazard insurance information it receives and provides IndyMac with
      the applicable hazard insurance effective date, payment amount, and payee
      (collectively, “Insurance Information”);


2.  Provides
      the Insurance Information to IndyMac no later than 5 days prior to the
      applicable expiration date as indicated in the Insurance
      Information.





With
      respect to the Platform, and with respect to the Period, the Asserting Party
      provides the following assessment of its compliance in respect of the Applicable
      Servicing Criteria (as defined above):




1.
      The
      Asserting Party is responsible for assessing its compliance with respect to
      the
      functions it performs for the Applicable Servicing Criteria.




2.
      The
      Asserting Party has assessed its compliance with respect to the functions it
      performs for the Applicable Servicing Criteria.




3.
      Other
      than as identified on Schedule
      B hereto,
      as of and for the Period, the Asserting Party was in material compliance with
      respect to the functions it performs for the Applicable Servicing
      Criteria.




KPMG,
      LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an attestation
      report with respect to the Asserting Party’s foregoing assessment of
      compliance.





**NEWPORT
      MANAGEMENT CORPORATION**





By: /s/
      Mark A McElroy


Mark
      A.
      McElroy





Its: Executive
      Vice President





Dated:
      February 27, 2007








**SCHEDULE
      A**





**See
      Exhibit 99 of this Form 10-K**











**SCHEDULE
      B**




**MATERIAL
      INSTANCES OF NONCOMPLIANCE**




No
      material instances of noncompliance: Newport Management Corporation has
      complied, in all material respects, with the aforementioned criterion as of
      and
      for the year ended December 31, 2006.