Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed Amendment to a Systems of Records

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. N-94-3831; FR-3794-N-01]

Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed Amendment to a Systems of Records

AGENCY: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Notification of a proposed amendment to an existing system of

records.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposes

to amend its system of records entitled ``Single Family Computerized

Homes Underwriting Management System (CHUMS), HUD/H-5'' in its

inventory of systems of records notices subject to the Privacy Act of

1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. Notice of this system was last

published at 55 FR 17676, April 26, 1990.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This action will be effective without further notice on

December 5, 1994, unless comments are received that would result in a

contrary determination.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding

the proposed amendment to the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of General

Counsel, room 10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications should

refer to the above docket number and title. An original and four copies

of comments should be submitted. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not

acceptable. A copy of each communication submitted will be available

for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

weekdays at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeanette Smith, Departmental Privacy Act Officer, at (202) 708-2374.

This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD/H-5 contains a variety of records

relating to HUD's single-family underwriting process. This system aids

the Department in the processing of mortgagee applications for property

appraisal and commitment for HUD/FHA mortgage insurance, and in the

subsequent administration of HUD/FHA mortgage insurance programs.

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) as amended, notice

is given that HUD proposes to add a new routine use category to reflect

the fact that the records will be utilized in a computer matching

program. This new routine use identifies the categories of users (i.e.,

the Department of Agriculture, Education, Veteran Affairs, the Small

Business Administration, and other agencies) to whom records may be

disclosed pursuant to authorized and approved computer matching

programs undertaken for debt collection purposes.

The amended portion of the system notice is set forth below.

Previously, the system and a prefatory statement containing the general

routine uses applicable to all HUD systems of records was published in

the ``Federal Register Privacy Act Issuances, 1991 Compilation, Volume

I.''

Title 5 U.S.C. 552a(e) (4) and (11) provide that the public be

afforded a 30-day period in which to comment on the new record system.

The system report, as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), has been

submitted to the Committee on Government Operations of the House of

Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate

and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), pursuant to paragraph 4c

of Appendix I to OMB Circular A-130, ``Federal Agency Responsibilities

for Maintaining Records about Individuals'' dated June 25, 1993 (58 FR

36075, July 2, 1993).

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a, 88 Stat. 1896; sec. 7(d), Department

of HUD Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(d)).

Issued at Washington, D.C., September 26, 1994.

Marilynn A. Davis,

Assistant Secretary for Administration.

HUD/H-5

System name: Single Family Computerized Homes Underwriting

Management System (CHUMS)

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories

of users and the purposes for such uses.

See routine uses paragraph in prefatory statement. Other routine

uses include:

a. To other agencies; such as, Departments of Agriculture,

Education and Veterans Affairs, and the Small Business Administration--

for use of HUD's Credit Alert Interactive Voice Response System

(CAIVRS) to prescreen applicants for loans or loans guaranteed by the

Federal Government to ascertain if the applicant is delinquent in

paying a debt owed to or insured by the Government.

[FR Doc. 94-27257 Filed 11-2-94; 8:45 am]

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