[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36563-36564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14530]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5683-N-43]


30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Single Family 
Premium Collection Subsystem-Upfront (SFPCS-U)

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: HUD has submitted the proposed information collection 
requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The 
purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public 
comment.

DATES: Comments Due Date: July 18, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
Control Number and should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 
20503; fax: 202-395-5806. Email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colette Pollard, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410; email Colette Pollard at 
[email protected] or telephone 202-402-3400. Persons with hearing 
or speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the 
toll-free Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. This is not a toll-
free number. Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be 
obtained from Ms. Pollard.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD has 
submitted to OMB a request for approval of the information collection 
described in Section A. The Federal Register notice that solicited 
public comment on the information collection for a period of 60 days 
was published on March 5, 2013.

A. Overview of Information Collection

    Title of Information Collection: Single Family Premium Collection 
Subsystem-Upfront (SFPCS-U).
    OMB Approval Number: 2502-0423.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Form Number: None.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The 
Single Family Premium Collection Subsystem-Upfront (SFPCS-U) allows the 
lenders to remit the Upfront Mortgage Insurance Premiums using funds 
obtained from the mortgagor during the closing of the mortgage 
transaction at settlement.
    The SFPCS-U strengthens HUD's ability to manage and process upfront 
single-family mortgage insurance premium collections and corrections. 
It also improves data integrity for the Single Family Mortgage 
Insurance Program. Therefore, the FHA approved lenders transmit UPMIP 
payment case detail directly to HUD and this information is remitted by 
HUD to the Department of the Treasury's Pay.gov Automated Clearing 
House (ACH) applications. The case-level payment information sent to 
HUD is updated on the Single Family Premium Collection Subsystem-
Upfront (SFPCS). The authority for this collection of information is 
specified in 24 CFR 203.280 and 24 CFR 203.281. The collection of 
information is also used in calculating refunds due to former FHA 
mortgagors when they apply for homeowner refunds of the unearned 
portion of the mortgage insurance premium, 24 CFR 203.283, as 
appropriate. Without this information the premium collection/monitoring 
process would be severely impeded, and program data would be 
unreliable. In general, the lenders use the ACH applications to remit 
the upfront premium through SFPCS-U to obtain mortgage insurance for 
the homeowner.
    Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the 
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of 
response, and hours of response: Hourly rate is based on an estimate of 
the annual salary of lender clerical staff at $33,634. The number of 
annual burden hours is 4,880. The number of respondents is

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2,711, the number of responses is 32,532, the frequency of response is 
monthly, and the estimated burden time response is approximated 15 
minutes.

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

    This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and 
affected parties concerning the collection of information described in 
Section A on the following:
    (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility;
    (2) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information;
    (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (4) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond; including through the use of appropriate 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
    HUD encourages interested parties to submit comment in response to 
these questions.

     Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35

    Dated: June 11, 2013.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-14530 Filed 6-17-13; 8:45 am]
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