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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 .............
Tier 2 .............

Five firm commitments issued or closings of 223(f) or closing of equivalent transactions within the past 5 years.
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.*
Five firm commitments issued or closings of 220, 221(d), 231, 232, or 241 or equivalent transactions within the past 5 years.
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.*

Tier 3 .............
Tier 4 .............

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* 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.

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Dated: March 16, 2012.
Carol J. Galante,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing—
Federal Housing Commissioner.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Proposed Renewal of Information
Collection: Applicant Background
Survey
U.S. Department of the Interior.
Notice and Request for
Comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

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.

SUMMARY:

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
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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
[email protected].
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
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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
[email protected]. 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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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
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for public comment.
AGENCY:

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 [email protected].
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:
SUMMARY:

Background
The Alabama sturgeon
(Scaphirhyncus suttkusi) was listed as

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