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GAO            United States
               General Accounting Office
               Washington, D.C. 20548

               Office of the General Counsel




               B-275487

               December 5, 1996

               The Honorable Alfonse M. D'Amato
               Chairman
               The Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes
               Ranking Minority Member
               Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
               United States Senate

               The Honorable James A. Leach
               Chairman
               The Honorable Henry B. Gonzalez
               Ranking Minority Member
               Committee on Banking and Financial Services
               House of Representatives

               Subject: United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service:
                         Reengineering and Reinvention of the Direct Section 502 and 504 Single
                         Family Ho using Pro gram

                Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on
                a major rule promulgated by United States Department of Agriculture, Rural
                Housing Service (RHS), entitled Reengineering and Reinvention of the Direct
                Section 502 and 504 Single Family Housing Program (RIN: 0575-AB99). We
                received the rule on November 18, 1996. It was published in the Federal Register as
                an interim final rule on November 22, 1996. 61 Fed. Reg. 59762.

                The interim final rule sets forth revised and combined rules for carrying out the
                requirements of sections 502 and 504 of the Housing Act of 1949 and combines the
                current 18 regulations into one rule as part of the National Performance Review
                Program. The rule, among other changes, implements a Dedicated Loan Origination
                System which will utilize many of the methods used by private mortgage companies
                to improve program performance and efficiency to the program's customers.

                The effective date of the rule is December 26, 1996, which is less than the 60 days
                delay in a rule's effective date required by the Small Business Regulatory
                Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA). In accelerating the effective date,
                RHS stated that it had determined under 5 U.S.C. § 808(2) that a delay in


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