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BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket Number FR–5427–N–02] 

Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act: 

Additional Guidance on Notification 

Responsibilities Under the Act With 

Respect to Occupied Conveyance 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

additional guidance on the notice, 

entitled ‘‘Protecting Tenants at 

Foreclosure: Notice of Responsibilities 

Placed on Immediate Successors in 

Interest Pursuant to Foreclosure of 

Residential Property,’’ published in the 

Federal Register on June 24, 2009, and 

supplemented by further information 

published on October 28, 2010. The 

October 2010 notice provided guidance 

on the relationship between the Federal 

Housing Administration’s (FHA’s) 

current regulations on occupied 

conveyance and the protections for 

existing tenants under the Protecting 

Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 

(PTFA). This notice provides further 

guidance on the relationship between 

FHA regulations and the protections for 

existing tenants under the PTFA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Hass, Housing Program Specialist, 

Office of Single Family Asset 

Management, Office of Housing, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 

9172, Washington, DC 20410–8000; 

telephone number 202–708–1672 (this 

is not a toll-free number). Persons with 

hearing or speech challenges may access 

this number through TTY by calling the 

toll-free Federal Information Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background of PTFA and HUD’s June 

2009 Notice 

The Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure 

Act of 2009, Title VII of the Helping 

Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 

(Pub. L. 111–22, approved May 20, 

2009) (codified at 12 U.S.C. 5220 note), 

requires that any immediate successor 

in interest take a foreclosed residential 

property subject to the existing lease 

and provide tenants residing in the 

property with notice to vacate at least 90 

days in advance of the date by which 

the successor, generally, the purchaser, 

seeks to have the tenants vacate the 

property. Except where the purchaser 

will occupy the property as the primary 

residence, the term of any bona fide 

lease entered into before the notice of 

foreclosure and extending beyond 90 

days also remains in effect. The PTFA 

was enacted during a period when 

unprecedented numbers of foreclosures 

were occurring across the country. 

Often, tenants residing as leaseholders 

in residential properties become 

collateral victims in addition to 

homeowners when foreclosures occur, 

and are forced to vacate their 

leaseholds, often with minimal notice. 

The PTFA ensures that tenants receive 

appropriate notice of foreclosure and are 

not abruptly displaced. 

Sections 702 and 703 of PTFA define 

the scope of PTFA’s coverage over 

residential properties. The Section 702 

requirements provide tenants with at 

least 90 days’ advance notice to vacate 

and to preserve the term of any bona 

fide lease apply to foreclosures on all 

Federally related mortgage loans or on 

any dwelling or residential real 

property. Section 703 makes conforming 

changes consistent with the Section 702 

requirements to the Section 8 rental 

voucher assistance provisions of the 

United States Housing Act of 1937 (1937 

Act). The protections provided by PTFA 

sunset on December 31, 2014. 

Section 1484 of the Dodd-Frank Wall 

Street Reform and Consumer Protection 

Act (Pub. L. 111–203, approved July 21, 

2010) amended PTFA, and extended the 

PTFA protections to December 31, 2014. 

Section 1484 of the Dodd-Frank Wall 

Street Reform and Consumer Protection 

Act also defined when ‘‘date of notice 

of foreclosure’’ occurs. Section 1484 

provides in relevant part as follows: 

‘‘the date of a notice of foreclosure shall 

be deemed to be the date on which 

complete title to a property is 

transferred to a successor entity or 

person as a result of an order of a court 

or pursuant to provisions in a mortgage, 

deed of trust, or security deed.’’ 

To fall under the Act, a bona fide 

lease must be entered into prior to the 

date of the notice of foreclosure, which 

is defined as ‘‘the date on which 

complete title to a property has been 

transferred to a successor entity or 

person as a result of an order of a court 

or pursuant to the provisions in a 

mortgage, deed of trust, or security 

deed.’’ A bona fide lease is one in 

which: (1) The mortgagor or the child, 

spouse, or parent of the mortgagor under 

the contract is not the tenant; (2) the 

lease or tenancy was the result of an 

arms-length transaction; and (3) the 

lease or tenancy requires the receipt of 

rent that is not substantially less than 

fair market rent for the property or the 

unit’s rent is reduced or subsidized due 

to a federal, state, or local subsidy. The 

requirements of the PTFA apply with 

respect to properties secured by FHAinsured mortgages as well as those in 

the Section 8 program. 

The notice that HUD published on 

June 24, 2009 (74 FR 3–1–6), addressed 

the general applicability of PTFA 

protections to HUD programs, provided 

basic guidance, and advised where HUD 

program participants and other 

interested parties may find more 

detailed guidance directed to HUD 

programs. Following issuance of the 

June 24, 2009, notice, HUD began 

receiving questions about the interplay 

of the PTFA notice requirements with 

the notice requirements of FHA’s 

occupied conveyance regulations. HUD 

therefore issued a second notice on 

PTFA to specifically address how the 

PTFA tenant protections work in the 

context of FHA regulations. 

II. FHA’s Occupied Conveyance 

Regulations—October 28, 2010 Notice 

The Federal Register notice, 

published by HUD on October 28, 2010 

(75 FR 66385), provided the following 

guidance on compliance with the FHA’s 

occupied conveyance regulations, and 

the tenant protections provided by the 

PTFA. 

Upon default of an FHA-insured 

mortgage, and under FHA’s existing 

regulations, the mortgagee must engage 

in loss mitigation for the purpose of 

providing an alternative to foreclosure. 

Should such loss mitigation efforts be 

unsuccessful, the mortgagee will 

generally foreclose and convey the 

property to FHA in exchange for an 

FHA mortgage insurance claim. FHA 

generally requires the mortgagee to 

convey the property unoccupied, but in 

certain circumstances, as described in 

FHA’s occupied conveyance regulations 

at 24 CFR 203.670–203.681, FHA will 

accept the property occupied. In cases 

where the regulations would not permit 

the occupied conveyance of the 

property, the mortgagee must acquire 

possession before conveying the 

property to FHA. Various laws, usually 

state or local, but now also PTFA, affect 

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it takes to acquire possession of the 

property. 

FHA’s claims regulations at 24 CFR 

203.356(b) provide that the mortgagee 

must exercise ‘‘reasonable diligence’’ in 

prosecuting the foreclosure proceedings 

to completion and in acquiring title to 

and possession of the property. (Failure 

to foreclose and evict acquire possession 

in accordance with this reasonable 

diligence time frame could lead to 

curtailment of debenture interest on the 

mortgagee’s FHA insurance claim as 

described in section 203.402(k) of the 

regulations.) FHA publishes state-bystate reasonable diligence timeframes by 

mortgagee letter. At the time of 

publication of the October 28, 2010, 

notice, HUD noted that FHA Mortgagee 

Letter 2005–30 provided that an 

automatic extension of the reasonable 

diligence timeframe will be allowed for 

the actual time necessary to complete 

the possessory action provided that the 

mortgagee begins such action promptly. 

Therefore, FHA regulations and 

Mortgagee Letters already provide 

mortgagees the additional time they may 

need to acquire possession under the 

PTFA, i.e., in many cases at least an 

additional 90 days. As mortgagees may 

have been confused about the 

interaction between the PTFA and the 

occupied conveyance regulations, the 

October 28, 2010, notice served to 

confirm that: (1) FHA expects 

mortgagees to comply with the PTFA; 

and (2) the additional time needed to 

acquire possession pursuant to the 

PTFA is automatically included in the 

reasonable diligence timeframe. 

III. FHA Occupied Conveyance 

Regulations and PTFA Protections— 

Additional Guidance 

Since issuance of the October 28, 

2010, notice, mortgagees have sought 

additional guidance on this subject. 

This notice provides additional 

guidance regarding compliance with 

FHA’s occupied conveyance procedures 

and the tenant protections of PTFA in 

light of recent changes in state and local 

laws relating to tenant protection. This 

guidance is also being provided directly 

to FHA-approved mortgagees through an 

FHA mortgagee letter. 

Tenant Protections Prior to PTFA. 

FHA historically required mortgagees to 

provide all property occupants 

(including former mortgagors) a Notice 

of Pending Acquisition (NOPA), within 

60 to 90 days prior to the date the 

mortgagee expected to acquire title to 

the occupied property. For many 

tenants, this may have been their first 

notification that ownership of a 

property was changing and that they 

would likely need to relocate in the near 

future. The NOPA also advised the 

occupants that there was a possibility of 

remaining in the property when 

ownership was conveyed to FHA if the 

occupants met certain criteria. However, 

the NOPA also cautioned that any 

continued occupancy after conveyance 

to FHA would be temporary. 

Prior to enactment of the PTFA on 

May 20, 2009, leases that did not predate the mortgage could usually be 

terminated by the new owner following 

completion of foreclosure. Additionally, 

although there were variations due to 

state or local law, most eviction actions 

required that advance notice to vacate 

be provided to occupants 60 days or less 

before the effective date of the eviction. 

The passage of the PTFA changes both 

of those situations. 

PTFA Tenant Protections. The PTFA 

generally provides, after the date of its 

enactment, that in the case of any 

foreclosure on a federally-related 

mortgage loan or on any dwelling or 

residential real property, any immediate 

successor in interest in such property 

pursuant to the foreclosure shall assume 

such interest subject to: (1) A notice to 

vacate to any bona fide tenant at least 

90 days before the effective date of such 

notice; and (2) the rights of any bona 

fide tenant under a bona fide lease to 

occupy the premises until the end of the 

remaining term of the lease, except that 

a successor in interest may terminate a 

lease effective on the date of sale of the 

unit to a purchaser who will occupy the 

unit as a primary residence. FHA 

expects mortgagees to comply with the 

terms of the PTFA. As provided in 

section 702(a) of the PTFA, nothing in 

the PTFA shall affect any state or local 

law that provides longer time periods or 

additional protections for tenants. 

Mortgagee Compliance under PTFA. 

Before completion of foreclosure, the 

mortgagee must confirm the identity of 

all occupants, determine each 

occupant’s possible rights for continued 

occupancy under the PTFA and state or 

local law, and attempt to obtain 

documentation of existing leases and 

tenancies. 

1. Revised Notice to Occupants of 

Pending Acquisition (NOPA). At least 60 

days, but not more than 90 days before 

the mortgagee reasonably expects to 

acquire title, the FHA mortgagee shall 

notify the mortgagor and each head of 

household who is occupying a unit of 

the property of its potential conveyance 

to FHA following foreclosure. The 

notice(s) shall provide a summary of the 

conditions under which continued 

occupancy is permissible and other 

information specified in 24 CFR 

203.675(b). A sample Notice to 

Occupant of Pending Acquisition and 

related documents to be used for this 

purpose accompany this notice. 

Mortgagees should make any additional 

changes to the NOPA that are required 

to be in compliance with PTFA, state, or 

local laws. If the occupant responds to 

the NOPA and FHA approves occupied 

conveyance, the mortgagee shall convey 

the property occupied under FHA’s 

existing occupied conveyance 

procedures. 

Mortgagees must begin using the 

revised NOPA and related documents, 

with additional changes that are 

required to be in compliance with 

PTFA, state, or local law, no later than 

July 1, 2012. 

2. Occupancy rights under PTFA and 

state and local law. If FHA denies 

occupied conveyance, the mortgagee 

must confirm if PTFA is applicable (i.e., 

whether there is a bona fide lease or 

tenancy, etc.) or if there is some other 

occupancy protection under state or 

local law that would require the 

mortgagee to delay action to obtain 

possession of the property. Mortgagees 

shall fully comply with applicable 

PTFA and state and local law and 

provide required notices to occupants. 

The additional time needed under the 

PTFA (or specific state or local laws) to 

obtain possession of the property is 

taken into consideration when 

evaluating compliance with FHA’s 

reasonable diligence timeframe. The 

mortgagee must retain documentation in 

the claim file to support the additional 

time needed to comply with PTFA (or 

other state or local occupancy 

requirements). Upon expiration of the 

tenancy protection, mortgagees are 

expected to proceed promptly with 

possessory actions. 

3. Rent Collections. FHA expects 

mortgagees to attempt to collect rents 

payable under bona fide leases and 

tenancies and, in the event of default, to 

take possessory action pursuant to the 

contract terms and applicable law. Any 

rents received by a mortgagee during the 

term of the bona fide lease or tenancy 

must be reflected as a credit on line 115 

of Form HUD–27011, Single-Family 

Application for Insurance Benefits. This 

form can be accessed at http:// 

portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/ 

huddoc?id=DOC_14619.pdf. 

4. Preservation and Protection Costs. 

Additional routine preservation and 

protection costs, including lawn 

maintenance and inspections, that are 

incurred as a result of an extended lease 

or tenancy will be reimbursed pursuant 

to the schedule in Mortgagee Letter 

2010–18, Update of Property and 

Preservation (P&P) Requirements and 

Cost Reimbursement Procedures. This 

mortgagee letter can be accessed at 


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http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/ 

documents/huddoc?id=DOC_14634.pdf. 

Paperwork Reduction Act. The 

information collection requirements 

contained in this document have been 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520) and assigned OMB control 

number, 2502–0429. In accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD may 

not conduct or sponsor, and a person is 

not required to respond to, a collection 

of information unless the collection 

displays a currently valid OMB Control 

Number. 

IV. Additional Questions About PTFA 

and FHA Occupied Conveyance 

Regulations 

Any questions regarding this subject 

may be directed to HUD’s National 

Servicing Center (NSC). The NSC’s toll 

free number is 877–622–8525; its email 

address is Hsg-lossmit@hud.gov. 

Persons with hearing or speech 

impairments may reach NSC’s number 

via TDD/TTY by calling 1–877–TDD– 

2HUD (1–877–833–2483). 

Dated: March 9, 2012. 

Carol J. Galante, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing— 

Federal Housing Commissioner. 

Sample Notice to Occupant of Pending 

Acquisition (To be prepared and 

submitted by the mortgagee to all 

occupants) 

NOTICE TO OCCUPANT OF PENDING 

ACQUISITION 

(Name) (Date) 

(Street Address) 

(Town or City) 

(HUD/FHA Case No.) 

AVISO IMPORTANTE PARA 

PERSONAS DE HABLA HISPANA. 

ESTO ES UN AVISO MUY 

IMPORTANTE. SI NO ENTIENDE 

EL CONTENIDO, OBTENGA UNA 

TRADUCCIO ́ N 

INMEDIATAMENTE. SI USTED NO 

RESPONDE DENTRO DE VEINTE 

(20) DI ́AS, PUEDE QUE TENGA 

QUE MUDARSE DE LA CASA O 

APARTAMENTO EN QUE VIVE. 

Dear: llllllllllllllll

The mortgage for the property in 

which you are living is in foreclosure as 

a result of the property owner’s default. 

Within the next 60 to 90 days, title to 

the property is expected to be 

transferred to [NAME OF 

MORTGAGEE]. Some time thereafter, 

ownership of the property will probably 

be transferred to the Secretary of 

Housing and Urban Development 

(HUD). 

HUD generally requires that there be 

no one living in properties conveyed to 

the Secretary as a result of a foreclosure. 

As the Federal Housing 

Administration’s (FHA) single family 

program is a mortgage insurance 

program, it must sell all acquired 

properties and use the proceeds of sale 

to help replenish the FHA Mortgage 

Insurance Fund. It is not a rental 

program. There are other programs 

within HUD that assist in making rental 

housing available. 

However, before [NAME OF 

MORTGAGEE] conveys the property to 

HUD, you may be entitled to remain in 

the property for some period of time, 

pursuant to the Protecting Tenants at 

Foreclosure Act of 2009 (PTFA) or state 

or local law. If you are a bona fide 

tenant (someone other than the 

mortgagor, or the child spouse or parent 

of the mortgagor occupying the property 

pursuant to a bona fide lease or 

tenancy), a separate notice regarding 

your occupancy rights under PTFA will 

be provided to you when complete title 

to the property is transferred to (name 

of mortgagee) as a result of an order of 

a court or pursuant to provisions in the 

mortgage, deed of trust or security deed. 

Instructions: Mortgagees may insert 

here any language they deem necessary 

to inform occupants of the conditions 

under which they might be eligible to 

remain in the property pursuant to the 

PTFA or state or local law, and/or for 

the mortgagee to request information 

from the occupant that would be needed 

for the mortgagee to determine whether 

the occupant qualifies. 

If you are not entitled to remain in the 

property pursuant to the PTFA or state 

or local law, you may nevertheless be 

eligible to remain in the property upon 

conveyance to HUD, if certain 

conditions are met, as described in 

Attachment 3, Conditions for Continued 

Occupancy. To be considered for 

continued occupancy upon conveyance 

to HUD, you must submit a written 

request to HUD within 20 days of the 

date at the top of this letter. Oral 

requests are not permitted. 

Please use the enclosed Attachment 1, 

‘‘Request for Occupied Conveyance’’ 

(form HUD–9539), in making your 

request as it gives HUD information it 

needs to make its decision. You must 

send your request and the enclosed 

Attachment 2 ‘‘Request for Verification 

of Employment’’ authorization to HUD’s 

Mortgagee Compliance Manager (MCM) 

at the following address: 

[MORTGAGEE’S ADDRESS]. 

If an individual residing in the 

property suffers from a permanent, 

temporary, or long-term illness or injury 

that would be aggravated by the process 

of moving from the property, please also 

provide supporting documentation of 

the illness or injury. This 

documentation must include a 

projection of the date that the individual 

could be moved without aggravating the 

illness or injury and a statement by a 

state-certified physician establishing the 

validity of your claim. 

Additional information that you wish 

to include with your request may be 

written on additional pages that you 

attach to the ‘‘Request for Occupied 

Conveyance’’ form. 

If HUD approves your request to 

remain in the property, you will be 

required to sign a month-to-month lease 

and pay rent at the prevailing fair 

market rate. If HUD does not in fact 

become owner of this property, any 

decision it may make with respect to 

your continued occupancy will no 

longer apply. 

Your right to continued occupancy of 

the property under HUD’s Occupied 

Conveyance policies will only be 

temporary, depending on the 

circumstances, as described in 

Attachment 4, Temporary Nature of 

Continued Occupancy. 

For assistance in finding affordable 

housing, you may wish to contact one 

or more of HUD’s approved housing 

counseling agencies. These agencies 

usually provide services at little or no 

cost. A counselor may be able to 

recommend other organizations that can 

also be of assistance. If you have access 

to the Internet, you may locate a local 

housing counseling agency by visiting 

the following Web page: www.hud.gov/ 

offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/hccprof14.cfm. 

Alternatively, you may call the HUD 

Housing Counseling and Referral Line, 

weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

EST. The Referral Line telephone 

number is (800) 569–4287. 

If you have any questions concerning 

this notice, please contact [NAME AND 

CONTACT INFORMATION OF 

MORTGAGEE]. 

Sincerely, 

lllllllllllllllllll

Signature 

Title 

Attachments 

Attachment 1 (Request for Occupied 

Conveyance—Form HUD–9539) 

Attachment 2 (Request for Verification 

of Employment) NOTE: Mortgagees 

may use their own standard 

employment verification forms. 

Attachment 3 (Conditions for Continued 

Occupancy) 

Attachment 4 (Temporary Nature of 

Continued Occupancy) 


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Attachment 3 (Conditions for Continued 

Occupancy) (to Mortgagee’s Notice 

of Pending Acquisition) 

HUD’s Occupied Conveyance Program 

CONDITIONS FOR CONTINUED 

OCCUPANCY 

The following conditions must be met 

before HUD can approve the occupied 

conveyance of an acquired property. 

1. One or more of the following must 

be met, as determined by HUD in HUD’s 

sole and absolute discretion pursuant to 

authority provided in FHA occupied 

conveyance regulations 24 CFR 

§ 203.670 through § 203.681 and 

additional guidance provided by the 

Department: 

a. Your occupancy is necessary to 

protect the property from vandalism; 

b. The average time in inventory for 

HUD’s unsold inventory in the 

residential area in which the property is 

located exceeds six months; 

c. With respect to two-to-four-unit 

properties, the marketability of the 

property would be improved by your 

continuing occupancy. 

d. The high cost of eviction or 

relocation expenses makes eviction 

impractical; or 

e. An individual residing in the 

property suffers from a permanent, 

temporary, or long-term illness or injury 

that would be aggravated by the process 

of moving from the property. 

2. The house must be habitable 

(except for approval under condition 

1(e)). 

3. You must have been living in the 

house at least 90 days prior to the date 

the lender acquires title to the house 

(except for approval under condition 

1(e)). 

4. You must agree to sign a month-tomonth lease at fair market rent on a 

form prescribed by HUD at the time 

HUD acquires the property. 

5. You must have the financial ability 

to make the monthly rental payments 

under the terms of the lease. 

6. You must agree to pay one month’s 

advance rent when you sign the lease 

(except for approval under condition 

1(e)). 

7. You must allow access to the 

property during normal business hours: 

(a) By HUD representatives for a 

physical inspection of the property, 

with two days advance notice. 

(b) By HUD contractors doing repairs, 

with two days advance notice. 

(c) By real estate brokers and their 

clients with two days advance notice. 

8. You must disclose the complete 

and accurate social security number 

(SSN) assigned to you and to each 

member of your household. 

Attachment 4 (Temporary Nature of 

Continued Occupancy) (to 

Mortgagee’s Notice of Pending 

Acquisition) 

TEMPORARY NATURE OF 

CONTINUED OCCUPANCY 

This is to advise you that occupancy 

of HUD-owned property is temporary in 

all cases and is subject to termination to 

facilitate preparing the property for sale 

and completing the sale. Temporary 

means that your lease arrangement with 

HUD is subject to termination at the 

convenience of the government upon 30 

day’s notice, or otherwise in accordance 

with applicable law. You should not 

view your occupancy of the property as 

a permanent or long-term arrangement. 

It is HUD’s policy to ask you to vacate 

the property and, if necessary, take 

appropriate eviction action for the 

following causes: 

1. Your failure to execute the lease. 

2. Your failure to pay the required 

rent, including the initial payment at 

the time of execution of the lease. 

3. Your failure to comply with the 

terms of the lease. 

4. Your failure to allow access to the 

property upon request to accomplish 

necessary repairs, inspect the property, 

or allow real estate brokers to show the 

property to a prospective purchaser. 

5. Necessity to facilitate preparing the 

property for sale and completing the 

sale. 

6. Assignment of the property by HUD 

to a different use or program. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

INTER–AMERICAN FOUNDATION 

BOARD MEETING 

Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: March 26, 2012, 9 a.m.– 

1:30 p.m. 

PLACE: 901 N. Stuart Street, Tenth Floor, 

Arlington, Virginia 22203. 

STATUS: Open to the public except for 

the portion specified as closed session 

as provided in 22 CFR 1004.4(f). 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

D Approval of the Minutes of the 

December 12, 2011, Meeting of the 

Board of Directors 

D Management Report 

D IAF Fellows Mid-Year Conference 

D Grantee Perception Report 

D Next Meetings 

D Executive Session 

PORTIONS TO BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: 

D Approval of the Minutes of the 

December 12, 2011, Meeting of the 

Board of Directors 

D Management Report 

D IAF Fellows Mid-Year Conference 

D Grantee Perception Report 

D Next Meetings 

PORTIONS TO BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC: 

D Executive Session—Closed session 

as provided in 22 CFR 1004.4 (f). 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

• Paul Zimmerman, General Counsel, 

(703) 306–4320. 

Paul Zimmerman, 

General Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 7025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Outer Continental Shelf Scientific 

Committee; Notice of Renewal 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Renewal. 

SUMMARY: Following consultation with 

the General Services Administration, 

notice is hereby given that the Secretary 

of the Interior is revising and renewing 

the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Scientific Committee (Committee). 

The Committee provides advice on 

the feasibility, appropriateness, and 

scientific value of the OCS 

Environmental Studies Program to the 

Secretary of the Interior through the 

Director of BOEM. The Committee 

reviews the relevance of the research 

and data being produced to meet 

BOEM’s scientific information needs for 

decision-making and may recommend 

changes in scope, direction, and 

emphasis. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Phyllis Clark, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Office of Environmental 

Program, Environmental Sciences 

Division, Herndon, Virginia 20170– 

4817, telephone, (703) 787–1716. 

Certification 

I hereby certify that the renewal of the 

OCS Scientific Committee is in the 

public interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed on the 

Department of the Interior by 43 U.S.C. 

1331 et. seq. 

Dated: March 9, 2012. 

Ken Salazar, 

Secretary of the Interior. 

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