Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 22 / Monday, February 3, 1997 / Notices 5029

Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act

requires mortgage originators to submit

an initial escrow account statement

describing payments and disbursements

to the account. Mortgage services are

required to submit annual escrow

account statements describing the

previous year’s activity and certifying

that the account was operated legally.

Form Number: None.

Respondents: Individuals or

Households and Business or Other ForProfit.

Frequency of Submission:

Recordkeeping, Third Party Disclosure,

and Annually.

Reporting burden Number of

respondents x Frequency ofresponse x Hours perresponse = Burdenhours

Information Collection ............................................................. 2,000 19,775 .1176 4,649,250

Recordkeeping ........................................................................ 2,000 1 329.6 659,167

Total Estimated Burden Hours:

5,308,417.

Status: Extension, without changes.

Contact: Ivy M. Jackson, HUD, (202)

708–4560; Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB,

(202) 395–7316.

[FR Doc. 97–2596 Filed 1–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–01–M

[Docket No. FR–3638–N–09]

Submission for OMB Review:

Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of Administration, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

collection requirement described below

has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act. The Department is

soliciting public comments on the

subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due date: March 5,

1997.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments must be

received within thirty (30) days from the

date of this Notice. Comments should

refer to the proposal by name and/or

OMB approval number should be sent

to: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB Desk

Officer, Office of Management and

Budget, Room 10235, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kay

F. Weaver, Reports Management Officer,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street,

Southwest, Washington, DC 20410,

telephone (202) 708–0050. This is not a

toll-free number. Copies of the proposed

forms and other available documents

submitted to OMB may be obtained

from Ms. Weaver.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department has submitted the proposal

for the collection of information, as

described below, to OMB for review, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

The Notice lists the following

information: (1) the title of the

information collection proposal; (2) the

office of the agency to collect the

information; (3) the OMB approval

number, if applicable; (4) the

description of the need for the

information and its proposed use; (5)

the agency form number, if applicable;

(6) what members of the public will be

affected by the proposal; (7) how

frequently information submissions will

be required; (8) an estimate of the total

number of hours needed to prepare the

information submission including

number of respondents, frequency of

response, and hours of response; (9)

whether the proposal is new, an

extension, reinstatement, or revision of

an information collection requirement;

and (10) the names and telephone

numbers of an agency official familiar

with the proposal and of the OMB Desk

Officer for the Department.

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as

amended.

Dated: January 23, 1997.

David S. Cristy,

Acting Director, Information Resources,

Management Policy and Management

Division.

Notice of Submission of Proposed

Information Collection to OMB

Title of Proposal: Affiliated Business

Arrangement Disclosure (FR–3638).

Office: Housing.

OMB Approval Number: 2502–0516.

Description of the Need for the

Information and its Proposed Use: A

settlement service provider or an

employee of a settlement service

provider is required to give the borrower

an affiliated business arrangement

disclosure prior to or at the time the

borrower is referred to an affiliated

provider. The disclosure must be a

separate document and the format must

contain the following information: (1)

specify the nature of the relationship

(explaining the ownership and financial

interest) between the person performing

the settlement service and the person

making the referral; (2) describe the

estimated changes or range of changes

generally made by the provider of

settlement services; and (3) state that the

borrower is not required to use the

referred provider (except for certain

circumstances).

Form Number: None.

Respondents: Individuals or

Households and Business or Other ForProfit.

Frequency of Submission: Third Party

Disclosure.

Reporting burden Number of

respondents × Frequency ofresponse × Hours perresponse = Burdenhours

Third party disclosure ................................................................. 10,000 240 .10 240,000

Total Estimated Burden Hours:

240,000.

Status: Extension, without changes.

Contact: Ivy M. Jackson, HUD, (202)

708–4560; Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB,

(202) 395–7316.

[FR Doc. 97–2597 Filed 1–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–01–M

[Docket No. FR–4171–D–01]

Redelegation of Authority

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.
5030 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 22 / Monday, February 3, 1997 / Notices

ACTION: Redelegation of Authority.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the field

reorganization Revocation and

Redelegation of Authority for the Office

of Housing, published on December 6,

1994, at 59 FR 62739, which was

amended by the Revocation and

Redelegation of Authority published on

June 26, 1996, at 59 FR 33130. This

notice redelegates certain Multifamily

Housing program functions to the

Director, Office of Housing, and the

Director, Multifamily Housing Division,

in the Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth,

Texas field offices.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 22, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William H. Melvin, Chief, Multifamily

Real Estate Owned Branch, Department

of Housing and Urban Development,

Georgia State Office, Richard B. Russell

Federal Building, Room 572, 75 Spring

Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303–

3388, (Telephone (404) 331–5001, Ext.

2187), (TTY (404) 730–2654), or Alvin

E. Braggs, Chief, Multifamily Real Estate

Owned Branch, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, Texas State

Office, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 12th Floor, 1600

Throckmorton Street, Post Office Box

2905, Fort Worth, Texas 76113–2905,

(Telephone (817) 978–9044), (TTY (817)

885–5447). All telephone and TTY

numbers listed are not toll-free

numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

November of 1993, the Secretary

announced the reorganization of HUD’s

field structure to improve performance

and provide HUD’s customers—

members of the public and program

beneficiaries—more efficient service

and less bureaucracy by empowering

HUD’s employees to more effectively

serve these customers. As part of that

ongoing process, on December 6, 1994,

at 59 FR 62739, the Department

published a Notice of Revocation and

Redelegation of Authority pertaining to

authority in the field over Office of

Housing programs, which was amended

by the Revocation and Redelegation of

Authority published on June 26, 1996,

at 61 FR 33130.

With the decline of the Multifamily

Property Disposition inventory, many of

the offices with authority to administer

Multifamily Property Disposition

inventory are managing only a small

number of projects. Top maximize staff

resources, the Assistant Secretary for

Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner

determined to consolidate the

Multifamily Property Disposition

inventory into two ‘‘HUB’’ offices which

would have nationwide authority to

perform Multifamily Property

Management and Disposition functions.

In June, 1996, the Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner selected the Atlanta,

Georgia and Fort Worth, Texas field

offices to serve as the two ‘‘HUB’’ offices

for certain Multifamily Housing

program functions. Implementation of

these HUBs will serve to free field office

staff, currently performing real estate

owned processing, to focus on loss

mitigation and servicing of troubled

properties to avoid future foreclosures,

as well as other critical field office

priorities.

As the Department strives to provide

increasingly efficient service, the ability

to do more with less is of crucial

importance. Through this Redelegation

of Authority, the Department seeks to

shift certain powers and authorities in

order to best utilize its finite resources

to the benefit of the customer.

Implementation of the two HUBs will

ensure that as staff resources continue to

decline, the Department will have staff

available to manage and dispose of

defaulted FHA-insured multifamily

properties that have reverted to HUD.

Accordingly, the Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner redelegates authority as

follows:

Section A. Authority Redelegated

The Assistant Secretary for Housing—

Federal Housing Commissioner

redelegates to the Director, Office of

Housing, and the Director, Multifamily

Housing Division, in the Atlanta,

Georgia, and Fort Worth, Texas field

offices, nationwide authority over those

functions listed in the Revocation and

Redelegation of Authority published

December 6, 1994, at 59 FR 62739 at the

following sections:

• B., III., (a), (iii), A., 31; and

• B., III., (a), (iv).

Section B. Authority to Further

Redelegate

The authority redelegated above, in

Section A of the instant document, may

be further redelegated in writing to

appropriate field office staff so as to

maximize efficiency. In cases where

authority is redelegated to staff not

reporting to the redelegating field office

official, prior concurrence of the

Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal

Housing Commissioner, or appropriate

Deputy Assistant Secretary, is required.

Authority: Section 7(d), Department of

Housing and Urban Development Act, 42

U.S.C. § 3535(d).

Dated: January 22, 1997.

Stephanie A. Smith,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner.

[FR Doc. 97–2595 Filed 1–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–27–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Species

Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.

SUMMARY: The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et

seq.).

Permit No. 821962

Applicant: Mark E. Angelos, Torrance,

California

The applicant requests a permit to

take (harass by survey, capture and

release, collect voucher specimens) the

Riverside fairy shrimp (Streptocephalus

wootoni) in Los Angeles, Riverside, and

San Diego Counties, California in

conjunction with presence or absence

surveys and aquatic insect research for

the purpose of enhancing its survival.

Permit No. 807055

Applicant: Justine Gibb, La Mesa,

California

The applicant requests an amendment

of her permit to include take (locate and

monitor nests) of the least Bell’s vireo

(Vireo bellii pusillus) in Los Angeles,

Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and San

Bernardino Counties, California in

conjunction with conducting surveys

and nest monitoring for the purpose of

enhancing its survival.

Permit No. 810313

Applicant: Stephen Eugene Leach,

Oakland, California

The applicant requests a permit to

take (harass by survey, capture and

release, collect voucher specimens) the

Conservancy fairy shrimp (Branchinecta

conservatio), longhorn fairy shrimp

(Branchinecta longiantenna), and vernal

pool tadpole shrimp (Lepidurus

packardi) in Shasta, Tehama, Butte,

Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Placer,

Yolo, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Madera,

Fresno, Contra Costa, Alameda, and

Solano Counties, California in

conjunction with presence or absence

surveys for the purpose of enhancing

their survival.