Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; Proposed Amendment to a System of Records.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-3918-N-08]

Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; Proposed Amendment to a System

of Records.

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (HUD).

ACTION: Notification of proposed amendment to one of the existing

system of records.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as

amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Department of Housing and Urban Development

is giving notice that it intends to amend the Privacy Act's Single

Family Case Files (HUD/Dept-46) system of records.

DATES: Comments due: January 13, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding

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

Counsel, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500.

Communications should refer to the above docket number and title.

Facsimile (FAX) comments are

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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/Dept-46 is being amended to correct an

error made in a November 9, 1995 Federal Register notice (60 FR 56609).

On November 9, 1995 HUD/Dept-46 was amended to include a new routine

use disclosure to allow the release of mortgage origination and

default/claim information to financial institutions and computer

software companies for the purpose of conducting automated

underwriting. A previous amendment was made to this same system of

records on June 12, 1995 to include a new routine use disclosure for

the release of relevant sales information to prospective purchasers for

sale of mortgages, loans or insurance premiums or charges (60 FR

30893). The addition of the June 12th routine use disclosure was

inadvertently omitted in the November 9, 1995 Federal Register notice.

This amendment corrects the error and publishes all routine use

disclosures for HUD/Dept-46.

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, 1993.''

Title 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(e) (4) and (1) 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 Reform and Oversight of the

House of Representatives, and the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), pursuant to paragraph 4c of Appendix 1 to OMB Circular No. A-

130, Management of Federal Information Resources, dated February 8,

1996.

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a, 88 Stat. 1986; sec. 7(d), Department

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

Issued at Washington, D.C. December 2, 1996.

Steven M. Yohai,

Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology.

HUD/DEPT-46

System Name:

Single Family Case Files.

Routine Uses of Records Maintained in the System, Including Categories

of Users and the Purposes of Such Uses:

See Routine Uses paragraphs of prefatory statement. Other routine

uses include:

a. To welfare agencies for fraud investigation.

b. To the Department of Veterans Affairs for coordination with HUD

in processing construction complaints.

c. To congressional delegations to provide information concerning

status of complaints.

d. Complainants and attorneys representing them for review of

complainant file for status and other information.

e. Builders and attorneys representing them to review complainant

files for status information.

f. To holders of subordinate or junior mortgages to determine the

outstanding balance due to HUD on a Secretary-held mortgage.

g. To prospective purchasers--for sale of mortgages, loans or

insurance premiums or charges.

h. To financial institutions and computer software companies for

automated underwriting, credit scoring and other risk management

evaluation studies.

Policies and Practices for Storing, Retrieving, Accessing, Retaining,

Disposing of Records in the System and Safeguards:

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[FR Doc. 96-31570 Filed 12-11-96; 8:45 am]

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