Exhibit
      33(a)





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**Report
        on Assessment of Compliance**
 **With
        Regulation AB Servicing Criteria**
 
 
 Litton
        Loan Servicing LP (the “Servicer”) is responsible for assessing compliance as of
        and for the year ended December 31, 2006 (the “Reporting Period”) with the
        servicing criteria set forth in Section 229.1122 (d) of the Code of Federal
        Regulations (the “CFR”), except for the criteria set forth in Sections
        1122(d)(4)(xv), 1122(d)(3)(i)(C) and 1122(d)(3)(ii) regarding the waterfall
        calculation (which are the responsibility of the Trustee), 1122(d)(4)(i)
        and
        1122(d)(4)(ii) (which are the responsibility of the Custodian), and
        229.1122(d)(1)(iii) in the CFR, which the Servicer has concluded is not
        applicable to the servicing activities it performs with respect to the
        asset-backed securities transactions covered by this report (the “Applicable
        Servicing Criteria”). The transactions covered by this report include the
        asset-backed securities transactions, which were completed after January
        1,
        2006, and that were registered with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act
        of
        1933 or were not required to be registered (the “Platform”) for which Litton
        Loan Servicing LP served as servicer.
  
 The
        Servicer has assessed its compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria
        as
        of and for the year ended December 31, 2006 and has concluded that it has
        complied, in all material respects, with the Applicable Servicing Criteria
        with
        respect to the Platform taken as a whole, except as disclosed on Exhibit
        A.
 
 Deloitte
        & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued
        an attestation report on the assessment of compliance with the Applicable
        Servicing Criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2006.
 
 
 
 Date:
        February 27, 2007
 
 
 LITTON
        LOAN SERVICING LP, as Servicer
 
 
 
 By:  */s/
        Elizabeth Folk*
 Elizabeth
        Folk
 Senior
        Vice President and
 Chief
        Financial Officer
 
 
  
 
  **Exhibit
        A**
  **Instances
        of Non-Compliance**
 **With
        Regulation AB Servicing Criteria**
 
 
 The
        Servicer has assessed its compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria
        as
        of and for the year ended December 31, 2006, and has concluded that it has
        complied, in all material respects, with the Applicable Servicing Criteria
        with
        respect to the Platform taken as a whole, except as disclosed
        below:
 
 *Reconciliations
        for Asset-Backed Securities Related Bank Account -
        1122(d)(2)(vii)(D)*
 
 Our
        investor bank account reconciliations included certain reconciling items
        that
        were not resolved within 90 calendar days of their original identification
        on
        eleven of sixty-three investor bank account reconciliations selected for
        testing. The sum of the reconciling items for those eleven reconciliations
        was
        $216,950.
 
 *Adjustments
        to Interest Rates for Pool Assets With Variable Rates -
        1122(d)(4)(ix)*
 
 Our
        testing of sixty-five adjustable rate mortgages revealed two instances where
        certain adjustable rate mortgages for which the interest rate reset in the
        servicing system did not agree to interest rates in the appropriate source
        index
        per the borrower’s note documents. These were the result of incorrect
        information transferring from the prior servicer. Additionally, the same
        sixty-five mortgages selected for testing included one instance where the
        adjustable rate mortgage payment change date in the servicing system did
        not
        agree to the loan documents.