[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 22 (Monday, February 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5029-5030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2595]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4171-D-01]
Redelegation of Authority
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
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ACTION: Redelegation of Authority.
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SUMMARY: This notice amends the field reorganization Revocation and
Redelegation of Authority for the Office of Housing, published on
December 6, 1994, at 59 FR 62739, which was amended by the Revocation
and Redelegation of Authority published on June 26, 1996, at 59 FR
33130. This notice redelegates certain Multifamily Housing program
functions to the Director, Office of Housing, and the Director,
Multifamily Housing Division, in the Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth,
Texas field offices.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 22, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William H. Melvin, Chief, Multifamily
Real Estate Owned Branch, Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Georgia State Office, Richard B. Russell Federal Building, Room 572, 75
Spring Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3388, (Telephone (404) 331-
5001, Ext. 2187), (TTY (404) 730-2654), or Alvin E. Braggs, Chief,
Multifamily Real Estate Owned Branch, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Texas State Office, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 12th Floor, 1600 Throckmorton Street, Post Office Box
2905, Fort Worth, Texas 76113-2905, (Telephone (817) 978-9044), (TTY
(817) 885-5447). All telephone and TTY numbers listed are not toll-free
numbers.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In November of 1993, the Secretary announced
the reorganization of HUD's field structure to improve performance and
provide HUD's customers--members of the public and program
beneficiaries--more efficient service and less bureaucracy by
empowering HUD's employees to more effectively serve these customers.
As part of that ongoing process, on December 6, 1994, at 59 FR 62739,
the Department published a Notice of Revocation and Redelegation of
Authority pertaining to authority in the field over Office of Housing
programs, which was amended by the Revocation and Redelegation of
Authority published on June 26, 1996, at 61 FR 33130.
With the decline of the Multifamily Property Disposition inventory,
many of the offices with authority to administer Multifamily Property
Disposition inventory are managing only a small number of projects. Top
maximize staff resources, the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal
Housing Commissioner determined to consolidate the Multifamily Property
Disposition inventory into two ``HUB'' offices which would have
nationwide authority to perform Multifamily Property Management and
Disposition functions.
In June, 1996, the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner selected the Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth, Texas field
offices to serve as the two ``HUB'' offices for certain Multifamily
Housing program functions. Implementation of these HUBs will serve to
free field office staff, currently performing real estate owned
processing, to focus on loss mitigation and servicing of troubled
properties to avoid future foreclosures, as well as other critical
field office priorities.
As the Department strives to provide increasingly efficient
service, the ability to do more with less is of crucial importance.
Through this Redelegation of Authority, the Department seeks to shift
certain powers and authorities in order to best utilize its finite
resources to the benefit of the customer. Implementation of the two
HUBs will ensure that as staff resources continue to decline, the
Department will have staff available to manage and dispose of defaulted
FHA-insured multifamily properties that have reverted to HUD.
Accordingly, the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner redelegates authority as follows:
Section A. Authority Redelegated
The Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner
redelegates to the Director, Office of Housing, and the Director,
Multifamily Housing Division, in the Atlanta, Georgia, and Fort Worth,
Texas field offices, nationwide authority over those functions listed
in the Revocation and Redelegation of Authority published December 6,
1994, at 59 FR 62739 at the following sections:
B., III., (a), (iii), A., 31; and
B., III., (a), (iv).
Section B. Authority to Further Redelegate
The authority redelegated above, in Section A of the instant
document, may be further redelegated in writing to appropriate field
office staff so as to maximize efficiency. In cases where authority is
redelegated to staff not reporting to the redelegating field office
official, prior concurrence of the Assistant Secretary for Housing-
Federal Housing Commissioner, or appropriate Deputy Assistant
Secretary, is required.
Authority: Section 7(d), Department of Housing and Urban
Development Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 3535(d).
Dated: January 22, 1997.
Stephanie A. Smith,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 97-2595 Filed 1-31-97; 8:45 am]
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