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existing information in support of ICE’s 

mission to enforce and investigate 

violations of U.S. criminal and 

administrative laws. ICE agents, 

criminal research specialists, and 

intelligence analysts use FALCON–SA 

to conduct research that support the 

production of law enforcement 

intelligence products, provide lead 

information for investigative inquiry 

and follow-up, assist in the conduct of 

ICE criminal and administrative 

investigations, assist in the disruption of 

terrorist or other criminal activity, and 

discover previously unknown 

connections among existing ICE 

investigations. ICE’s use of the system is 

always predicated on homeland 

security, law enforcement, and 

intelligence activities. FALCON–SA is 

an internal system used only by ICE. 

In order to mitigate privacy and 

security risks associated with the 

deployment of FALCON–SA, ICE has 

built technical safeguards into the 

system and developed a governance 

process that includes the operational 

components of ICE Homeland Security 

Investigations, the oversight functions of 

the ICE Privacy Office, Office Principal 

Legal Advisor, and Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

This PIA is necessary because 

FALCON–SA accesses and stores PII 

retrieved from DHS, other government 

agency, and commercially available 

databases. It is also necessary to provide 

public notice of the existence of 

FALCON–SA and to publicly document 

the privacy protections that are in place 

for the system. 

System: DHS/NPPD/PIA–022 Linking 

Encrypted Network system (LENS). 

Component: NPPD. 

Date of approval: February 9, 2012. 

DHS, NPPD, Critical Infrastructure 

Technology and Architecture (CITA) 

Project maintains the Linking Encrypted 

Network System (LENS), a data 

repository and application set that acts 

as a network of online portals or 

modules, allowing authorized users to 

obtain, post and exchange information 

and access common resources. NPPD 

conducted this PIA to examine the 

privacy impact associated with the 

collection of PII related to individuals 

who are LENS users or seeking access to 

LENS, as well as PII related to POCs that 

may be maintained within the LENS 

data repository. NPPD will conduct 

separate PIAs, as necessary, for those 

modules or applications residing on the 

LENS platform where the scope of the 

collection is beyond that of this PIA. 

Dated: March 12, 2012. 

Mary Ellen Callahan, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–9L–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5499–FA–01] 

Announcement of Funding Awards for 

the Neighborhood Stabilization 

Program (NSP) Technical Assistance 

(NSP TA) Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Announcement of funding 

awards. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 

notifies the public of funding decisions 

made by the Department in a 

competition for funding under the 

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 

for the FY2011 Neighborhood 

Stabilization—Technical Assistance 

Program. This announcement contains 

the names of the awardees and amounts 

of the awards made available by HUD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Hovden, Director, Technical Assistance 

Division, Office of Community Planning 

and Development, 451 Seventh Street 

SW., Room 7218, Washington, DC 

20410–7000; telephone (202) 402–4496 

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

with speech or hearing impairments 

may access this telephone number via 

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service during 

working hours at 800–877–8339. For 

general information on this and other 

HUD programs, visit HUD’s NSP 

Resource Exchange at 

www.hudnsphelp.info, HUD’s Web site 

at www.hud.gov, or call Community 

Connections at 1–800–998–9999. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FY 

2011 Neighborhood Stabilization 

Technical Assistance Program was 

designed to provide assessment tools, 

technical and capacity building 

assistance to state government, local 

government and non-profit recipients of 

Neighborhood Stabilization Program 

(NSP) funding to achieve and 

measureable outcomes through the 

selection of technical assistance (TA) 

providers for this program. 

The competition was announced in 

the NSP–TA NOFA published October 

17, 2011 (FR–5499–N–01) and closed on 

November 21, 2011. The NOFA allowed 

for up to $20 million for Neighborhood 

Stabilization Program (NSP) Technical 

Assistance (NSP–TA) for technical 

assistance and capacity building 

activities for recipients, including state 

and local governments and non-profit 

organizations, receiving federal 

Neighborhood Stabilization Program 

funds. Applications were rated and 

selected for funding on the basis of 

selection criteria contained in the 

Notice. For the FY2011 competition, 12 

awards totaling $20,000,000 were 

awarded to 12 distinct technical 

assistance providers nationwide. 

In accordance with section 

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 

U.S.C. 3545), the Department is 

publishing in Appendix A to this 

document the name of the NSP–TA 

grantees and the amounts of the awards. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Clifford D. Taffet, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

APPENDIX A 

Recipient State Amount 

APD Urban Planning Management, LLC ................................................................................................................... FL ................ $500,000 

Capital Access, Inc .................................................................................................................................................... PA ............... 500,000 

Cloudburst Consulting Group ..................................................................................................................................... MD ............... 3,000,000 

Corporation for Supportive Housing .......................................................................................................................... NY ............... 500,000 

Dennison Associates, Inc ........................................................................................................................................... DC ............... 1,000,000 

Econometrica, Inc ...................................................................................................................................................... MD ............... 1,000,000 

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc .......................................................................................................................... MD ............... 3,000,000 

ICF International ......................................................................................................................................................... VA ............... 3,000,000 

Local Initiatives Support Corporation ......................................................................................................................... NY ............... 3,000,000 

Minnesota Housing Partnership ................................................................................................................................. MN ............... 1,000,000 


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APPENDIX A—Continued 

Recipient State Amount 

Training & Development Associates, Inc ................................................................................................................... NC ............... 3,000,000 

W. Frank Newton, Inc ................................................................................................................................................ GA ............... 500,000 

Total .................................................................................................................................................................... ..................... 20,000,000 

[FR Doc. 2012–6937 Filed 3–21–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5627–N–03] 

Notice of Realignment/Merger of Five 

Regional Audit Offices: Boston, MA 

Will Merge With New York, NY; and the 

Gulf Coast Region Will Merge With 

Atlanta, GA and Fort Worth, TX 

AGENCY: Office of Inspector General, 

United States Department of Housing 

and Urban Development (HUD/OIG). 

ACTION: Notice of reorganization: 

realignment of Five Regional Audit 

Offices: Boston, Massachusetts (Region 

1) will merge with New York, New York 

(Region 2); and The Gulf Coast Region 

(Region 11) will merge with Atlanta, 

Georgia (Region 4) and Fort Worth, 

Texas (Region 6). 

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public 

that the HUD/OIG Office of Audit plans 

to merge/reclassify its Boston, 

Massachusetts (Region 1) office with its 

New York, New York (Region 2) office; 

and merge its Gulf Coast Region (Region 

11) office with its Atlanta, Georgia 

(Region 4) office and Fort Worth, Texas 

(Region 6) office. The planned 

reorganization is intended to: 

1. Improve the alignment of limited 

audit resources, to promote more 

efficient responses to HUD or 

Congressional requests involving critical 

program issues; 

2. Improve management control and 

effectiveness while improving the 

overall management structure; and 

3. Deploy resources to address 

systemic concerns within HUD. 

The HUD/OIG Office of Investigations 

has announced its own realignment/ 

reorganization, which impacts region 11 

as well. This notice also includes a costbenefit analysis supporting the merger 

of these five audit regional offices into 

three audit regional offices. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Randy W. McGinnis, Assistant Inspector 

General for Audit, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street SW., Room 8274, 

Washington, DC 20410–4500, telephone 

(202) 402–0364 (this is not a toll free 

number.) A telecommunication device 

for hearing and speech-impaired 

persons (TTY) is available at (800) 877– 

8339 (Federal Relay Services). (This is a 

toll free number.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

7(p) of the Department of Housing and 

Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 

3535(p)) provides that: 

A plan for reorganization, of any regional, 

area, insuring, or other field office of the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development may take effect only upon the 

expiration of 90 days after the publication in 

the Federal Register of a cost-benefit analysis 

of the effect of the plan on the office 

involved. 

The required cost-benefit analysis must 

include: (1) An estimate of cost savings 

anticipated; (2) an estimate of the 

additional cost which will result from 

the reorganization; (3) a discussion of 

the impact on the local economy; and 

(4) an estimate of the effect of the 

reorganization on the availability, 

accessibility, and quality of services 

provided for recipients of those services. 

Legislative history pertaining to 

section 7(p) indicates that not all 

reorganizations are subject to the 

requirements of section 7(p). Congress 

stated that ‘‘[t]his amendment is not 

intended to [apply] to or restrict the 

internal operations or organization of 

the Department (such as the 

establishment of new or combination of 

existing organization units within a 

field office, the duty stationing of 

employees in various locations to 

provide on-site service, or the 

establishment or closing, based on 

workload, of small, informal offices 

such as valuation stations).’’ (See House 

Conference Report No. 95–1792, 

October 14, 1978 at 58.) Although HUD/ 

OIG believes that the legislative history 

of section 7(p) strongly suggests that the 

legislation is inapplicable to merger of 

regional offices that will in no way 

reduce the level of services provided to 

areas served by such offices, HUD/OIG 

nonetheless voluntarily publishes the 

following cost-benefit analysis of its 

plan. 

Cost-Benefit Analysis 

A. Background 

Since 2002, HUD/OIG staffing has 

declined from an average high of 730 

full time equivalents (FTEs) to a current 

level of 650 FTEs. HUD OIG has a target 

level of 620 for the beginning of FY 

2013. Simultaneous with this 

constriction of staff resources, HUD/OIG 

is contending with the onslaught of 

mortgage fraud issues and foreclosure 

issues associated with the collapse of 

the mortgage industry and the subprime market, examining and evaluating 

the implementation, execution and 

oversight of HUD’s HOME program, the 

crippled economy and the impact that 

the economy has had on the foreclosure 

of HUD FHA insured loans. To more 

efficiently and effectively address HUD/ 

OIG’s core mission and at the same time 

become better prepared to respond to 

inevitable but unpredictable events, 

HUD/OIG plans to merge five regional 

audit offices into three regional audit 

offices, 90 days following the 

publication of this notice. 

B. Description of Proposed Changes 

90 days following the publication of 

this notice, the HUD/OIG Office of 

Audit will merge its Region 1 Boston, 

Massachusetts office with its Region 2 

New York, New York office. This one 

combined region can more effectively 

and efficiently serve the geographic area 

which it will cover while ultimately 

reducing costs. The New York office 

shall remain a regional office, the 

Boston office and its former field offices 

will become field offices of Region 2. 

HUD/OIG will also merge its Region 11 

Gulf Coast office with its Region 4 

Atlanta, Georgia office and its Region 6 

Fort Worth, Texas office. The Gulf Coast 

regional staff located in Mississippi will 

be assigned to the Atlanta, Georgia 

region while its New Orleans, Louisiana 

based staff will be assigned to region 6 

in Ft. Worth, Texas. Region 11, which 

was created in response to the natural 

disasters that struck this area, will no 

longer exist as a separate region, and its 

states of responsibility will revert back 

to the regions that historically oversaw 

them. All other existing regional and 

field office jurisdictional boundaries 

will be unchanged. HUD/OIG Office of 


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