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Information Collection Requests 

1. Title: Title 46 CFR Subchapter Q: 

Lifesaving, Electrical, Engineering and 

Navigation Equipment, Construction 

and Materials & Marine Sanitation 

Devices (33 CFR part 159). 

OMB Control Number: 1625–0035. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Manufacturers of safety 

equipment, materials and marine 

sanitation devices. 

Abstract: This information is used by 

the Coast Guard to ensure that 

regulations governing specific types of 

safety equipment, material and Marine 

Sanitation Devices (MSDs) installed on 

commercial vessels and pleasure craft 

are met. Manufacturers are required to 

submit drawings, specifications, and 

laboratory test reports to the Coast 

Guard before any approval is given. 

Forms: CGHQ–10030. 

Burden Estimate: The estimated 

burden has decreased from 103,289 

hours to 58,414 hours a year. 

2. Title: Standards of Training, 

Certification and Watchkeeping for 

Seafarers (STCW), 1995 and 1997 

Amendments to the International 

Convention. 

OMB control number: 1625–0079. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection for the 

existing STCW requirements. Note—The 

Coast Guard has an ongoing rulemaking 

related to STCW [USCG–2004–17914; 

RIN 1625–AA16]. Comments related to 

that rulemaking are outside the scope of 

this extension request. 

Respondents: Owners and operators 

of vessels, training institutions, and 

mariners. 

Abstract: This information is 

necessary to ensure compliance with the 

international requirements of the STCW 

Convention, and to maintain an 

acceptable level of quality in activities 

associated with training and assessment 

of merchant mariners. 

Forms: None. 

Burden Estimate: The estimated 

burden remains 17,927 hours a year. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended. 

Dated: March 29, 2012. 

R.E. Day, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant 

Commandant for Command, Control, 

Communications, Computers and 

Information Technology. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5444–N–02] 

Federal Housing Administration (FHA): 

Multifamily Accelerated Processing 

(MAP)—Lender and Underwriter 

Eligibility Criteria and Credit Watch for 

MAP Lenders 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This proposed notice 

provides additional, detailed 

information to FHA-approved lenders 

and members of the public about HUD’s 

processes for determining lender and 

underwriter eligibility and tier 

qualification for MAP participation. 

This proposed notice accompanies 

HUD’s proposed rule on the same topic, 

published elsewhere in today’s Federal 

Register. This notice includes the 

quantity, specific characteristics, and 

recentness of transactions that a lender 

or underwriter must have undertaken in 

order to qualify for each tier of MAP 

approval. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: June 11, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments on this 

notice to the Regulations Division, 

Office of General Counsel, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 7th Street SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications must refer to the above 

docket number and title. There are two 

methods for submitting public 

comments. All submissions must refer 

to the above docket number and title. 

1. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

2. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments electronically through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, ensures timely 

receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to 

make them immediately available to the 

public. Comments submitted 

electronically through the 

www.regulations.gov Web site can be 

viewed by other commenters and 

interested members of the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Note: To receive consideration as public 

comments, comments must be submitted 

through one of the two methods specified 

above. Again, all submissions must refer to 

the docket number and title of the rule. 

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile 

(FAX) comments are not acceptable. 

Public Inspection of Public 

Comments. All properly submitted 

comments and communications 

submitted to HUD will be available for 

public inspection and copying between 

8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above 

address. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled by calling 

the Regulations Division at 202–402– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

Individuals with speech or hearing 

impairments may access this number 

via TTY by calling the Federal Relay 

Service, toll-free, at 800–877–8339. 

Copies of all comments submitted are 

available for inspection and 

downloading at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Terry W. Clark, Office of Multifamily 

Development, Office of Housing, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 

6134, Washington DC 20410; telephone 

number (202) 402–2663 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Persons with hearing 

or speech impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Under its proposed rule, published 

elsewhere in today’s Federal Register, 

HUD would revise 24 CFR part 200, 

subpart Y, to provide for tiered approval 

of new and existing MAP lenders and 

underwriters, such that only lenders 

and underwriters with adequate 

experience and qualifications could 

underwrite loans involving more 

complex multifamily housing programs 

and transactions. 

II. Purpose 

This proposed notice provides the 

tiered MAP approval lender and 

underwriter experience requirements 

referenced in the proposed amendment 

to 24 CFR part 200, ‘‘Multifamily 

Accelerated Processing (MAP); MAP 

Lender Quality Assurance 

Enforcement.’’ Under the terms of the 

proposed rule, HUD may establish and 

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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. 

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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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