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from time to time propose to revise 

these experience requirements for new 

and existing MAP lenders and 

underwriters, as market conditions or 

HUD’s experience indicate would be 

prudent to adequately protect the FHA 

General Insurance Fund from 

unacceptable risk, through notice and 

the opportunity for public comment. 

The purpose of this notice is to propose 

the minimum number and type of 

closings required for MAP lender and 

underwriter approval at each 

qualification tier, and the time frame 

within which the loans must have 

closed within the tier to be found by 

HUD to be acceptable experience. 

This practice would mitigate risk, 

since MAP lenders and underwriters 

will now be approved at a tier level 

commensurate to their demonstrated 

experience. 

III. Tier Approval Experience 

Requirements 

As would be provided in 

§ 200.1411(b) of the proposed rule, an 

FHA lender or underwriter may use 

MAP to process or underwrite only 

those loan transactions that are covered 

by the lender or underwriter’s MAP 

approval tier. The tiers are as follows: 

Tier 1: Acquisition and refinancing 

programs (i.e., the FHA 223(f) or 

223(a)(7) programs) without government 

subsidies; 

Tier 2: Acquisition and refinancing 

programs (i.e., the FHA 223(f) or 

223(a)(7) programs) with or without 

government subsidies; 

Tier 3: All MAP-eligible programs 

(i.e., the FHA 220, 223(f), 223(a)(7), 

221(d), 231, and 241 programs) without 

government subsidies; and 

Tier 4: All MAP-eligible programs 

(i.e., the FHA 220, 223(f), 223(a)(7), 

221(d), 231, and 241 programs), with or 

without government subsidies. 

In accordance with § 200.1413(b) and 

§ 200.1415(b) of the proposed rule, a 

MAP lender or underwriter would be 

approved at a tier level commensurate 

with the lender or underwriter’s 

experience in underwriting and in 

processing transactions that are covered 

by that tier, or in underwriting and 

processing equivalent non-FHA loan 

transactions. (A non-FHA transaction 

may be deemed equivalent to a given 

FHA-covered loan transaction as 

provided in § 200.1413(b)(1)(i) or 

§ 200.1415(a)(1), as applicable.) To 

qualify a lender or underwriter for MAP 

approval at a tier level, the loan 

transactions would be required to have 

closed and to be of the quantities, 

characteristics, and recentness provided 

in the following table: 

Tier Experience requirements 

Tier 1 ............. Five firm commitments issued or closings of 223(f) or closing of equivalent transactions within the past 5 years. 

Tier 2 ............. Five firm commitments issued or closings of 223(f) or closing of equivalent transactions within the past 5 years, and at least 

three of the transactions must have been with government subsidies.* 

Tier 3 ............. Five firm commitments issued or closings of 220, 221(d), 231, 232, or 241 or equivalent transactions within the past 5 years. 

Tier 4 ............. Five firm commitments issued or closings of 220, 221(d), 231, 232, or 241 or equivalent transactions within the past 5 years, 

and at least three of the transactions must have been with government subsidies.* 

* See section II.A of the proposed rule’s preamble for a discussion of qualifying government subsidies. 

The requirement for new and existing 

lenders and underwriters to have 

undertaken five transactions within 5 

years in order to demonstrate 

qualification at a tier represents an 

increase compared to HUD’s current 

policy of requiring underwriters to have 

undertaken three transactions within 3 

years for general MAP approval. HUD 

has observed that lenders whose 

underwriters had only three qualifying 

transactions within 3 years have often 

had insufficient familiarity with the 

programs and their responsibilities 

under the MAP program. To ensure 

appropriate management of risk to the 

FHA insurance fund, it is essential that 

new and existing MAP lenders and 

underwriters have adequate 

transactional experience before they 

undertake their first transaction 

pursuant to their MAP approval at a 

given tier. HUD, therefore, proposes to 

increase the minimum number of 

transactions to five, but, accordingly, to 

provide that the transactions must have 

occurred within 5 years of when 

approval is sought, rather than within 3 

years. 

Dated: March 16, 2012. 

Carol J. Galante, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing— 

Federal Housing Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8679 Filed 4–11–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Proposed Renewal of Information 

Collection: Applicant Background 

Survey 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and Request for 

Comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of 

Civil Rights, Office of the Secretary, 

Department of the Interior (DOI) 

announces the proposed extension of a 

public information collection and seeks 

public comments on the provisions 

thereof. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by June 11, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Send your written 

comments to the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Office of the Secretary, Office 

of Civil Rights, Attn: Ophelia Anderson, 

Chief, Compliance and Programs 

Division, 1849 C St. NW., MS 4309 

Main Interior Building, Washington, DC 

20240. Send any faxed comments to 

(202) 208–6112, Attn: Ophelia 

Anderson. Comments may also be 

emailed to 

Ophelia_Anderson@ios.doi.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information on 

this renewed information collection or 

its Applicant Background Survey Form 

should be directed to the above address. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

DOI is below parity with the Relevant 

Civilian Labor Force representation for 

many mission critical occupations. The 

DOI Strategic Plan identifies the job 

skills that will be needed in its current 

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and future workforce. The job skills it 

will need are dispersed throughout its 

nine bureaus and include, among 

others, making visitors welcome to 

various facilities, such as parks and 

refuges, processing permits for a wide 

variety of uses of the public lands, 

collecting royalties for minerals 

extracted from the public lands, 

rounding-up and adopting-out wild 

horses and burros found in the west, 

protecting archeological and cultural 

resources of the public lands, and 

enforcing criminal laws of the United 

States. As a result of this broad 

spectrum of duties and services, the DOI 

touches the lives of most Americans. 

The people who deal with the DOI 

bring with them a wide variety of 

backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. 

A diverse workforce enables the DOI to 

provide a measure of understanding to 

its customers by relating to the diverse 

background of those customers. By 

including employees of all backgrounds, 

all DOI employees gain a measure of 

knowledge, background, experience, 

and comfort in serving all of the DOI’s 

customers. 

In order to determine if there are 

barriers in our recruitment and selection 

processes, DOI must track the 

demographic groups that apply for its 

jobs. The most effective and statistically 

valid method to make these 

determinations is information directly 

from applicants. The data collected is 

not provided to selecting officials and 

plays no part in the merit staffing or the 

selection processes. The data collected 

will be used in summary form to 

determine trends covering the 

demographic make-up of applicant 

pools and job selections within a given 

occupation or organizational group. The 

records of those applicants not selected 

are destroyed in accordance with DOI’s 

records management procedures. 

II. Data 

(1) Title: Applicant Background 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 1091–0001. 

Current Expiration Date: July 31, 

2012. 

Type of Review: Information 

Collection Renewal. 

Affected Entities: Applicants for DOI 

jobs. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 13,433. 

Frequency of Response: One per job 

application. 

(2) Annual reporting and record 

keeping burden: Average reporting 

burden per application: 5 minutes. 

Total annual reporting: 1,119 hours. 

(3) Description of the need and use of 

the information: This information is 

required to obtain the source of 

recruitment, ethnicity, race, and 

disability data on job applicants to 

determine if the recruitment is 

effectively reaching all aspects of 

relevant labor pools and to determine if 

there are proportionate acceptance rates 

at various stages of the recruitment 

process. Response is optional. The 

information is used for evaluating 

recruitment only, and plays no part in 

the selection of who is hired. 

III. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed 

information collection; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information, and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

All written comments will be 

available for public inspection in the 

Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street 

NW., Washington, DC during normal 

business hours, excluding legal 

holidays. For an appointment to inspect 

comments, please contact Ophelia 

Anderson by telephone on (202) 219– 

0805, or by email at 

Ophelia_Anderson@ios.doi.gov. A valid 

picture identification is required for 

entry into the Department of the 

interior. 

Dated: April 5, 2012. 

Sharon Eller, 

Director, Office of Civil Rights, Office of the 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–RE–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–ES–2012–N027; 

FXES11130400000C2–123–FF04E00000] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Notice of Availability of a 

Technical/Agency Draft Recovery Plan 

for Alabama Sturgeon 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service, announce the availability of the 

technical/agency draft recovery plan for 

the endangered Alabama Sturgeon. The 

draft recovery plan includes specific 

recovery objectives and criteria that 

would have to be met in order for us to 

downlist the species to be threatened 

under the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (Act). We request 

review and comment on this draft 

recovery plan from local, State, and 

Federal agencies, and the public. 

DATES: In order to be considered, 

comments on the draft recovery plan 

must be received on or before June 11, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: If you wish to review this 

technical/agency draft recovery plan, 

you may obtain a copy by contacting Jeff 

Powell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Alabama Field Office, 1208–B Main 

Street, Daphne, AL 36532; tel. (251) 

441–6630, or by visiting either the 

Service’s recovery plan Web site at 

http://endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ 

index.html#plans or the Daphne Field 

Office Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ 

daphne/. 

If you wish to comment, you may 

submit your comments by one of the 

following methods: 

• You may submit written comments 

and materials to Jeff Powell, at the above 

address. 

• You may hand-deliver written 

comments to our Alabama Field Office, 

at the above address, or fax them to 

(251) 441–6222. 

• You may send comments by email 

to jeff_powell@fws.gov. 

For additional information about 

submitting comments, see the ‘‘Request 

for Public Comments’’ section below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Powell, at the above addresses or by 

telephone: (251) 441–5858. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Alabama sturgeon 

(Scaphirhyncus suttkusi) was listed as 

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