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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5319–N–01] 

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 

Title I Manufactured Home Loan 

Program:Notification of Availability of 

Program Reform Implementation and 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD has issued a 2009 Title 

I Letter 2009 to implement the reforms 

that were made to the Title I 

Manufactured Home Loan Program 

pursuant to the FHA Manufactured 

Housing Modernization Act. The letter 

is available at www.hud.gov/fha. 

Through this notice, HUD solicits 

comments on the implementation of 

these reforms as presented in the letter. 

HUD will take these comments into 

consideration in the development of a 

final rule that will follow the letter, and 

codify in regulation the reforms to the 

Title I Manufactured Home Loan 

Program. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: June 22, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

the 2009 title I Letter 2009 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 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled in 

advance by calling the Regulations 

Division at 202–708–3055 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Individuals with 

speech or hearing impairments may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the Federal Information Relay Service at 

800–877–8339. Copies of all comments 

submitted are available for inspection 

and downloading at 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information contact, Margaret Burns, 

Director, Office of Single Family 

Program Development, Office of 

Housing, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street, 

SW., Room 9278, Washington, DC 

20410–8000; telephone number 202– 

708–2121. (This is not a toll-free 

number.) Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Information Relay Service 

at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The FHA Manufactured Housing Loan 

Modernization Act of 2008 (Subtitle B of 

Title II of the Housing and Economic 

Recovery Act of 2008; Public Law 110– 

289, approved July 30, 2008) (Act), 

amended various provisions in section 2 

of Title I of the National Housing Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1703 et seq.) relating to the 

Manufactured Home Loan Program for 

the purpose of providing: (1) Adequate 

funding for FHA insured manufactured 

housing for low and moderate income 

homebuyers, (2) modernizing the FHA 

Title I insurance program for 

manufactured housing loans to enhance 

participation by Ginnie Mae and the 

private lending markets, and (3) to 

adjust the low loan limits for Title I 

manufactured home loan insurance to 

reflect the increase in costs since such 

limits were last increased in 1992 and 

to index the limits to inflation. 

The Act revised the FHA Title I 

Manufactured Home Loan Program by: 

(1) Increasing the loan limits and 

establishing indexing for future 

adjustments based on inflation, (2) 

changing the insurance type from 

portfolio insurance to individual loan 

insurance, (3) providing that insurance 

on each individually Title I insured 

manufactured home loan be 

incontestable, except for fraud or 

misrepresentation, (4) changing the 

method for calculating the insurance 

premium by allowing for both an 

upfront insurance premium, not to 

exceed 2.25 percent, and an annual 

insurance premium to be paid during 

the term of the loan, not to exceed 1.0 

percent, (5) revising the underwriting 

criteria for loans and advances of credit 

in connection with the Title I 

manufactured home loan products as 

may be necessary to ensure that the 

program is financially sound, and (6) 

requiring a leasehold agreement if a 

manufactured home unit is to be 

situated in a manufactured home 

community. The term of the lease must 

not less than 3 years, renewable upon 

expiration of the original term by 

successive 1 year terms. The lessor must 

provide the lessee written notice of 

termination of the lease not less than 

180 days prior to expiration of the 

current lease. 

A Title I Letter has been issued to 

implement these reforms. HUD requests 

comments from lenders and other 

interested parties with regard to the 

implementation of these reforms. All 

comments received will be reviewed 

and considered by HUD in its 

development of a rule amending the 

Title I Manufactured Home Loan 

Program regulations at 24 CFR part 201. 

The rule will adopt the letter as issued 

or as may be revised pursuant to public 

comment or further consideration by 

HUD. Although FHA welcomes 

comments on all aspects of the Title I 

Letter, it is especially interested in 

receiving comments concerning upfront 

and periodic insurance charges, the 

methodology for indexing so as to be 

able to annually adjust the maximum 

loan limits, the underwriting criteria, 

and the potential economic costs and 

benefits of the reforms contained in the 

letter. 

Comments must be submitted by the 

deadline date established in the DATES

section of this notice, and in accordance 

with the instructions contained in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

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18248 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 75 / Tuesday, April 21, 2009 / Notices 

Dated: April 14, 2009. 

Brian D. Montgomery, 

Assistant Secretary for Housing—Federal 

Housing Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. E9–9121 Filed 4–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

INTER–AMERICAN FOUNDATION 

BOARD 

Inter-American Foundation Board 

Meeting; Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: April 27, 2009, 9 a.m.– 

1 p.m. 

PLACE: 901 N. Stuart Street, Tenth Floor, 

Arlington, Virginia 22203. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

• Approval of the Minutes of the 

December 15, 2008, Meeting of the 

Board of Directors 

• President’s Report 

• Regional and Summit of the 

Americas Overview 

• Congressional Affairs 

• IAF Program Activities 

• RedEAmerica 

• Operations 

• IAF Advisory Council 

• Board Site Visit 

PORTIONS TO BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: 

• Approval of the Minutes of the 

December 15, 2008, Meeting of the 

Board of Directors 

• President’s Report 

• Regional and Summit of the 

Americas Overview 

• Congressional Affairs 

• IAF Program Activities 

• RedEAmerica 

• Operations 

• IAF Advisory Council 

• Board Site Visit 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Hodges Reynolds, General 

Counsel, (703) 306–4301. 

Dated: April 13, 2009. 

Jennifer Hodges Reynolds, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E9–9215 Filed 4–17–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

U.S. Geological Survey 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity; National Cooperative 

Geologic Mapping Program (EDMAP 

and STATEMAP) 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 

ACTION: Notice of a new information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), we are notifying the public that 

we have submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) a new 

information collection request (ICR) for 

approval of the paperwork requirements 

for the National Cooperative Geologic 

Mapping Program (NCGMP). The 

NCGMP has two components: 

educational (EDMAP) and State 

(STATEMAP). This notice provides the 

public an opportunity to comment on 

the paperwork burden of the application 

requirements discussed below. 

DATES: You must submit comments on 

or before May 21, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments on 

this information collection directly to 

the Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior, via e-mail 

[OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov] or fax 

(202) 395–5806; and identify your 

submission as 1028–NEW. Please also 

submit a copy of your comments to 

Phadrea Ponds, USGS Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, 2150–C 

Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525 

(mail); (970) 226–9230 (fax); or 

pponds@usgs.gov (e-mail). Please 

reference Information Collection 1028– 

NEW, NCGMP in the subject line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE

CONTACT: To request additional 

information about this ICR, contact 

Randall Orndorff, Associate Program 

Coordinator (STATEMAP and EDMAP), 

National Cooperative Geological 

Mapping Program, U.S. Geological 

Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 

908, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); at 703– 

648–4316 (telephone); or 

rorndorff@usgs.gov (e-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The primary objective of the EDMAP 

component of the NCGMP is to train the 

next generation of geologic mappers. To 

do this, NCGMP provides funds for 

graduate and selected undergraduate 

students in academic research projects 

that involve geologic mapping as a 

major component. Through these 

cooperative agreements, NCGMP hopes 

to expand the research and educational 

capacity of academic programs that 

teach earth science students the 

techniques of geologic mapping and 

field data analysis. We will accept only 

one proposal from an individual 

principal investigator (professor or 

faculty advisor), although we will 

accept more than one proposal from a 

single university if authored by different 

principal investigators. Although 

EDMAP awards support student 

mapping in the field, the student’s 

faculty advisor must write the proposal. 

All applications must be submitted 

through Grants.gov. 

The primary objective of the 

STATEMAP component of the NCGMP 

is to establish the geologic framework of 

areas determined to be vital to the 

economic, social, or scientific welfare of 

individual States. The State geologist 

determines mapping priorities in 

consultation with a multirepresentational State Mapping 

Advisory Committee. We will accept 

only one proposal from each State each 

fiscal year. Proposals may contain a 

number of geologic mapping projects 

and may include one compilation or 

digitization project, or all projects may 

be for new mapping if the State chooses. 

All applications must be submitted 

through Grants.gov. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: None. This is 

a new collection. 

Title: National Cooperative Geologic 

Mapping Program (EDMAP and 

STATEMAP). 

Respondent Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 101. U.S. accredited 

university geoscience or related 

departments are eligible for EDMAP 

funds. University professors must write 

and submit the proposals. Only State 

Geological Surveys are eligible to apply 

for the STATEMAP component. Since 

many State Geological Surveys are 

organized under a State university 

system, such universities may submit a 

proposal on behalf of the State 

Geological Survey. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 101. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 2,020. 

We expect to receive 55 applications for 

EDMAP and 46 for STATEMAP, each 

taking 20 hours to complete. This 

includes the time for project conception 

and development, proposal writing and 

reviewing, and submitting a project 

narrative through Grants.gov. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ 

burdens associated with this collection 

of information. 

III. Request for Comments 

On April 22, 2008, we published a 

Federal Register notice (73 FR 21646) 

soliciting comments on the STATEMAP 

component. The comment period closed 

on June 23, 2008. On August 26, 2008, 

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