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OCC 2010-35
Subject: Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
Date: September 9, 2010
To: Chief Executive Officers and Compliance Officers of All National Banks, Federal Branches and Agencies, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel

Description: Updated Examination Procedures

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is issuing examination procedures for the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), which incorporate changes to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Regulation X. The updated procedures replace the existing procedures, which were last issued in 1996.

On November 17, 2008, HUD issued a final RESPA reform rule that included both technical and substantive changes to its Regulation X. Both the technical changes, which became effective on January 16, 2009, and the substantive changes, which became effective on January 1, 2010, are addressed in the attached revised interagency examination procedures. The key substantive changes include a standardized and binding Good Faith Estimate form and revised HUD-1/1A Settlement Statement.

The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act examination procedures are available at http://www.occ.gov/publications/publications-by-type/comptrollers-handbook/index-comptrollers-handbook.html#consumer. If you have questions, please contact your supervisory office or the Compliance Policy Department at (202) 874-4428.

Timothy W. Long
Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy
and Chief National Bank Examiner

 

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