51886 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 173 / Friday, September 5, 2008 / Notices 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to OMB and 

OTS at these addresses: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Desk Officer for OTS, U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget, 

725—17th Street, NW., Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to 

(202) 395–6974; and Information 

Collection Comments, Chief Counsel’s 

Office, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552, by fax to (202) 906–6518, or by 

e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at 

http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

public.info@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to obtain a copy 

of the submission to OMB, please 

contact Ira L. Mills at, 

ira.mills@ots.treas.gov (202) 906–6531, 

or facsimile number (202) 906–6518, 

Regulations and Litigation Division, 

Chief Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Loans in Areas 

Having Special Flood Hazards. 

OMB Number: 1550–0088. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description: The borrower uses the 

notice to make decisions regarding the 

collateral to be used to secure a loan. 

This notice advises the borrower as to 

whether the property securing the loan 

is or will be located in a special flood 

hazard area, whether flood insurance on 

the property securing the loan is 

required, and includes a description of 

the flood insurance purchase 

requirements. This notice also provides 

the borrower with information regarding 

the availability of Federal assistance in 

the event of a declared Federal flood 

disaster. If a loan is being serviced by 

a loan servicer, this notice also is 

provided by the savings association to 

the loan servicer to assist in making the 

servicer aware of its responsibility for 

performing certain tasks on behalf of the 

lender (e.g., collecting insurance 

premiums). The statute and OTS 

implementing regulations require the 

lending institution to retain a record of 

the receipt of the notice to the borrower. 

OTS uses this record to verify 

compliance. 

A second notice to the borrower is 

required if the lending institution 

determines at any time during the life of 

a loan that adequate (required) flood 

insurance is not in place. This notice is 

used by the borrower to determine how 

much flood insurance to purchase. 

The notice to the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) advises 

FEMA of the identity of the initial loan 

servicer and, if necessary, of changes in 

servicers. FEMA uses this notice to 

maintain current information regarding 

the persons to whom it should direct 

inquiries regarding flood insurance, or 

to send notices of flood insurance policy 

renewals. 

A lending institution is required by 

statute and OTS implementing 

regulations to use the standard flood 

hazard determination form developed 

by FEMA when determining whether 

the property securing the loan is or will 

be located in a special flood hazard area. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

832. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

214,660. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: 15 minutes. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: On 

occasion. 

Estimated Total Burden: 54,497 

hours. 

Clearance Officer: Ira L. Mills, (202) 

906–6531, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552. 

Dated: August 29, 2008. 

Deborah Dakin, 

Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Regulations and 

Legislation Division. 

[FR Doc. E8–20565 Filed 9–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Enhanced-Use Lease of VA Property 

for the Development and Operation of 

a Transitional Housing Facility for 

Eligible Homeless Veterans at the 

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 

Center, Battle Creek, MI. 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA). 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Enter into an 

Enhanced-Use Lease. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of the 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 

intends to enter into an enhanced-use 

lease of 6 acres of underutilized land at 

the VA Medical Center in Battle Creek, 

Michigan. The selected lessee will 

finance, design, develop, construct, 

operate, manage and maintain a 

transitional housing facility consisting 

of 75 units and a manager’s unit. As 

consideration for the lease, the lessee 

will be required to provide VA with 

rent, and/or in-kind consideration, 

including furnishing homeless veterans 

with transitional housing units and 

related services on a priority basis. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edward Bradley, Office of Asset 

Enterprise Management (044C), 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20420, (202) 461–7778 (this is not a tollfree number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 38 

U.S.C. 8161 et seq. states that the 

Secretary may enter into an enhanceduse lease if he determines that 

implementation of a business plan 

proposed by the Under Secretary for 

Health for applying the consideration 

under such a lease for the provision of 

medical care and services would result 

in a demonstrable improvement of 

services to eligible veterans in the 

geographic service-delivery area within 

which the property is located. This 

project meets this requirement. 

Approved: August 29, 2008. 

James B. Peake, 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E8–20576 Filed 9–4–08; 8:45 am] 

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