The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed to create a new system that would facilitate the transfer and streamline the collection of records under the FHAs lender approval and recertification process. The new, fully automated records system, the Lender Electronic Assessment Portal, will assume full custody and control of lender records currently maintained by the HUD/FHA Lender Approval Files System of Records Notice (SORN), which is a manual and labor-intensive process. The current system contains records of principals or officers of financial institutions who are approved or seeking approval to ...