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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
38 CFR Part 36
RIN 2900–AM38
Amended Delegation of Authority—
Property Management Contractor
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Final rule.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) is amending its delegation
of authority to the property management
contractor under its housing loan
program. This amendment will permit
the property management contractor’s
Regional Managers to execute
documents necessary for the
management and sale of single-family
properties acquired by VA under its
housing loan guaranty program.
DATES: Effective Date: May 30, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William W. Lutes, Assistant Director for
Property Management and Strategic
Development (263), Veterans Benefits
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs, 810 Vermont Ave., Washington,
DC 20420, telephone 202–273–7379.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
provisions of 38 U.S.C. chapter 37
authorize the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to guarantee (or make) loans to
veterans. Following the termination of
guaranteed loans that have been in
serious default, the holder of such loan
may, pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 3732(c),
elect to convey to the Secretary the
property which had secured the loan.
VA sells the properties so acquired to
the general public in order to reduce the
loss to the Federal Treasury on the
guaranteed loan. The sale of such
properties is not a veterans’ benefit
granted under title 38, United States
Code.
VA has contracted with a private
entity to handle the management and
resale of VA’s inventory of acquired
properties. To facilitate the contract’s
objectives, VA, in 38 CFR 36.4342(f)(2),
has delegated to designated officials of
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that entity the authority to execute, on
behalf of VA, routine documents
necessary for the management and sale
of VA acquired properties. The
designated officials under such
delegation are the Senior Vice President,
Vice President, Assistant Vice President,
Assistant Secretary, Director, and Senior
Manager.
This rule amends 38 CFR
36.4342(f)(2) to add the position of
‘‘Regional Manager’’ to the list of
officers of the contractor to whom the
Secretary has delegated authority to
execute such property management and
sales documents. Workload and staffing
of the contractor has led VA to conclude
that so expanding the list of positions to
which this authority is delegated will
increase the efficiency of the
administration of the property
management contract.
Administrative Procedure Act
This final rule concerns agency
statements of policy, organization,
procedure, or practice, and pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 553, is exempt from the notice
and comment and delayed effective date
requirements.
Unfunded Mandates
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
requires, at 2 U.S.C. 1532, that agencies
prepare an assessment of anticipated
costs and benefits before issuing any
rule that may result in an expenditure
by State, local, and tribal governments,
in the aggregate, or by the private sector
of $100 million or more (adjusted
annually for inflation) in any given year.
This final rule would have no such
effect on State, local, and tribal
governments, or the private sector.
Paperwork Reduction Act
This document contains no provisions
constituting a collection of information
under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. 3501–3521).
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs
hereby certifies that this final rule will
not have a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities
as they are defined in the Regulatory
Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601–612. The
final rule relates to agency management
and personnel and does not contain
substantive provisions affecting small
entities. Accordingly, pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 605(b), this final rule is exempt
from the initial and final regulatory
flexibility analysis requirements of
sections 603 and 604.
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Executive Order 12866
Executive Order 12866 directs
agencies to assess all costs and benefits
of available regulatory alternatives and,
when regulation is necessary, to select
regulatory approaches that maximize
net benefits (including potential
economic, environmental, public health
and safety, and other advantages;
distributive impacts; and equity). The
Order classifies a rule as a significant
regulatory action requiring review by
the Office of Management and Budget if
it meets any one of a number of
specified conditions, including: having
an annual effect on the economy of $100
million or more, creating a serious
inconsistency or interfering with an
action of another agency, materially
altering the budgetary impact of
entitlements or the rights of entitlement
recipients, or raising novel legal or
policy issues. VA has examined the
economic, legal, and policy implications
of this final rule and has concluded that
it is not a significant regulatory action
under Executive Order 12866.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Numbers
The Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance program numbers and titles
for this final rule are 64.114 Veterans
Housing—Guaranteed and Insured
Loans and 64.119 Veterans Housing—
Manufactured Home Loans.
List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 36
Condominiums, Flood Insurance,
Housing, Indians, Individuals with
disabilities, Loan programs-housing and
community development, Loan
programs, Indians, Loan programsveterans, Manufactured homes,
Mortgage insurance, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Veterans.
Approved: April 27, 2006.
Gordon H. Mansfield,
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
For the reasons stated in the preamble,
the Department of Veterans Affairs
amends 38 CFR part 36 as set forth
below:
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PART 36—LOAN GUARANTY
1. The authority citation for part 36
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, 3701–3704, 3707,
3710–3714, 3719, 3720, 3729, 3762, unless
otherwise noted.
2. Revise paragraph (f)(2) of § 36.4342
to read as follows:
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Director, Senior Manager, and Regional
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
44 CFR Part 64
[Docket No. FEMA–7927]
Suspension of Community Eligibility
Mitigation Division, Federal
Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This rule identifies
communities, where the sale of flood
insurance has been authorized under
the National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP), that are scheduled for
suspension on the effective dates listed
within this rule because of
noncompliance with the floodplain
management requirements of the
program. If FEMA receives
documentation that the community has
adopted the required floodplain
management measures prior to the
effective suspension date given in this
rule, the suspension will not occur and
a notice of this will be provided by
publication in the Federal Register on a
subsequent date.
DATES: Effective Dates: The effective
date of each community’s scheduled
suspension is the third date (‘‘Susp.’’)
listed in the third column of the
following tables.
ADDRESSES: If you want to determine
whether a particular community was
suspended on the suspension date,
contact the appropriate FEMA Regional
Office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William H. Lesser, Mitigation Division,
500 C Street SW., Washington, DC
20472, (202) 646–2807.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NFIP
enables property owners to purchase
flood insurance which is generally not
otherwise available. In return,
communities agree to adopt and
administer local floodplain management
aimed at protecting lives and new
construction from future flooding.
Section 1315 of the National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, 42
U.S.C. 4022, prohibits flood insurance
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coverage as authorized under the NFIP,
42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.; unless an
appropriate public body adopts
adequate floodplain management
measures with effective enforcement
measures. The communities listed in
this document no longer meet that
statutory requirement for compliance
with program regulations, 44 CFR part
59 et seq. Accordingly, the communities
will be suspended on the effective date
in the third column. As of that date,
flood insurance will no longer be
available in the community. However,
some of these communities may adopt
and submit the required documentation
of legally enforceable floodplain
management measures after this rule is
published but prior to the actual
suspension date. These communities
will not be suspended and will continue
their eligibility for the sale of insurance.
A notice withdrawing the suspension of
the communities will be published in
the Federal Register.
In addition, FEMA has identified the
Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs) in
these communities by publishing a
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The
date of the FIRM, if one has been
published, is indicated in the fourth
column of the table. No direct Federal
financial assistance (except assistance
pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act not in connection with a
flood) may legally be provided for
construction or acquisition of buildings
in identified SFHAs for communities
not participating in the NFIP and
identified for more than a year, on
FEMA’s initial flood insurance map of
the community as having flood-prone
areas (section 202(a) of the Flood
Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42
U.S.C. 4106(a), as amended). This
prohibition against certain types of
Federal assistance becomes effective for
the communities listed on the date
shown in the last column. The
Administrator finds that notice and
public comment under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)
are impracticable and unnecessary
because communities listed in this final
rule have been adequately notified.
Each community receives 6-month,
90-day, and 30-day notification letters
addressed to the Chief Executive Officer
stating that the community will be
suspended unless the required
floodplain management measures are
met prior to the effective suspension
date. Since these notifications were
made, this final rule may take effect
within less than 30 days.
National Environmental Policy Act
This rule is categorically excluded
from the requirements of 44 CFR part
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
38 CFR Part 36
RIN 2900-AM38
Amended Delegation of Authority--Property Management Contractor
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its
delegation of authority to the property management contractor under its
housing loan program. This amendment will permit the property
management contractor's Regional Managers to execute documents
necessary for the management and sale of single-family properties
acquired by VA under its housing loan guaranty program.
DATES: Effective Date: May 30, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William W. Lutes, Assistant Director
for Property Management and Strategic Development (263), Veterans
Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont
Ave., Washington, DC 20420, telephone 202-273-7379.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The provisions of 38 U.S.C. chapter 37
authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to guarantee (or make)
loans to veterans. Following the termination of guaranteed loans that
have been in serious default, the holder of such loan may, pursuant to
38 U.S.C. 3732(c), elect to convey to the Secretary the property which
had secured the loan. VA sells the properties so acquired to the
general public in order to reduce the loss to the Federal Treasury on
the guaranteed loan. The sale of such properties is not a veterans'
benefit granted under title 38, United States Code.
VA has contracted with a private entity to handle the management
and resale of VA's inventory of acquired properties. To facilitate the
contract's objectives, VA, in 38 CFR 36.4342(f)(2), has delegated to
designated officials of that entity the authority to execute, on behalf
of VA, routine documents necessary for the management and sale of VA
acquired properties. The designated officials under such delegation are
the Senior Vice President, Vice President, Assistant Vice President,
Assistant Secretary, Director, and Senior Manager.
This rule amends 38 CFR 36.4342(f)(2) to add the position of
``Regional Manager'' to the list of officers of the contractor to whom
the Secretary has delegated authority to execute such property
management and sales documents. Workload and staffing of the contractor
has led VA to conclude that so expanding the list of positions to which
this authority is delegated will increase the efficiency of the
administration of the property management contract.
Administrative Procedure Act
This final rule concerns agency statements of policy, organization,
procedure, or practice, and pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553, is exempt from
the notice and comment and delayed effective date requirements.
Unfunded Mandates
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act requires, at 2 U.S.C. 1532, that
agencies prepare an assessment of anticipated costs and benefits before
issuing any rule that may result in an expenditure by State, local, and
tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector of $100
million or more (adjusted annually for inflation) in any given year.
This final rule would have no such effect on State, local, and tribal
governments, or the private sector.
Paperwork Reduction Act
This document contains no provisions constituting a collection of
information under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521).
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs hereby certifies that this final
rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial
number of small entities as they are defined in the Regulatory
Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601-612. The final rule relates to agency
management and personnel and does not contain substantive provisions
affecting small entities. Accordingly, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 605(b),
this final rule is exempt from the initial and final regulatory
flexibility analysis requirements of sections 603 and 604.
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Executive Order 12866
Executive Order 12866 directs agencies to assess all costs and
benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, when regulation is
necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits
(including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety,
and other advantages; distributive impacts; and equity). The Order
classifies a rule as a significant regulatory action requiring review
by the Office of Management and Budget if it meets any one of a number
of specified conditions, including: having an annual effect on the
economy of $100 million or more, creating a serious inconsistency or
interfering with an action of another agency, materially altering the
budgetary impact of entitlements or the rights of entitlement
recipients, or raising novel legal or policy issues. VA has examined
the economic, legal, and policy implications of this final rule and has
concluded that it is not a significant regulatory action under
Executive Order 12866.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance program numbers and
titles for this final rule are 64.114 Veterans Housing--Guaranteed and
Insured Loans and 64.119 Veterans Housing--Manufactured Home Loans.
List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 36
Condominiums, Flood Insurance, Housing, Indians, Individuals with
disabilities, Loan programs-housing and community development, Loan
programs, Indians, Loan programs-veterans, Manufactured homes, Mortgage
insurance, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Veterans.
Approved: April 27, 2006.
Gordon H. Mansfield,
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Department of Veterans
Affairs amends 38 CFR part 36 as set forth below:
PART 36--LOAN GUARANTY
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1. The authority citation for part 36 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, 3701-3704, 3707, 3710-3714, 3719,
3720, 3729, 3762, unless otherwise noted.
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2. Revise paragraph (f)(2) of Sec. 36.4342 to read as follows:
Sec. 36.4342 Delegation of authority.
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(2) The designated officers are: Senior Vice President, Vice
President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, Director,
Senior Manager, and Regional Manager.
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