[Federal Register: June 30, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 126)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Deployment and Implementation of the Preservation Information
Exchange (PIX) Application
AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice; Announcement of PIX System.
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SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the deployment and
implementation of the PIX System. PIX is a web-based automated system
that will allow interested non-profit organizations and public bodies
to register to receive e-mail notification of all relevant prepayment
requests and potential sales to non-profits or public bodies of Section
515 Rural Rental Housing (RRH) properties.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, applicants
may contact Cynthia Reese-Foxworth, Senior Loan Officer, Office of
Rental Housing Preservation, RHS, USDA, Stop 0782, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250, telephone (202) 720-1940 (voice)
(This is not a toll free number.) or Anita Kapoor, Program Analyst,
Program Support Staff, RHS, USDA, Stop 0782, 1400 Independence Avenue,
SW., Washington, DC 20250, telephone (202) 690-1337 (voice) (This is
not a toll free number.) or (800) 877-8339 (TDD-Federal Information
Relay Service).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Programs Affected
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance numbers for the programs
impacted by this action are: 10.415, Rural Rental Housing Loans and
10427, Rural Rental Assistance Payments.
Discussion of Announcement
Authority
Section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1485) provides
RHS with the authority to provide written notice of the offer of a sale
or a request to prepay an RHS loan to interested non-profit
organizations and to any appropriate State and local agencies.
Accessing the PIX Web Site
State and Servicing Offices will refer all interested non-profit
organizations and public bodies to register for participation in
preserving low-income housing by accessing https://pix.sc.egov.usda.gov.
Once interested non-profit organizations and
public bodies register, Office of Rental Housing Preservation (ORHP)
will activate their registration by sending an e-mail with their user
ID and password. A link that provides instructions for navigating PIX
can be found on the Web site listed above.
External Users
Access to the Web site is restricted to non-profit organizations
and public bodies. The purpose of PIX purpose is to replace paper
listings of interested non-profit organizations and public bodies
formerly maintained by Agency staff. PIX will also eliminate the need
for program borrowers to notify non-profit organizations and public
bodies of the potential sale of their property. Non-profit
organizations and public bodies of each prepayment request received by
RHS and of the potential sale of RRH properties. Instead non-profit
organizations and public bodies can access PIX at anytime in order to
identify prepayment requests and potential sales. The ORHP will use PIX
to establish a database of interested non-profit organizations and
public bodies to assist in the preservation of valuable low-income
housing stock in rural America.
Dated: June 26, 2006.
David J. Villano,
Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
[FR Doc. 06-5915 Filed 6-29-06; 8:45 am]
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