Changes in Branch Office Registration Requirements

Document 2023-04191 is a Proposed Rule published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Federal Register on March 1, 2023. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is publishing this proposed rule to revise HUD's regulations for branch office registration requirements. To make mortgage industry standards more flexible and modernized, the proposed rule would remove the requirement that lenders and mortgagees register with HUD each branch office where they conduct Federal Housing Administration (FHA) business. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/01/2023-04191/changes-in-branch-office-registration-requirements.

No. Document 2023-04191 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.