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OCC Bulletin 2020-83 | September 29, 2020
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Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Federal Savings Associations, and Federal Branches and Agencies; Department and Division Heads; All Examining Personnel; and Other Interested Parties
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the agencies), today approved a final rule that allows financial institutions to defer completion of appraisals and evaluations for 120 days after the closing of residential and commercial real estate transactions. The agencies are providing this flexibility for completing appraisals and evaluations to help financial institutions meet the immediate liquidity needs of borrowers during the coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) emergency. Recent health and safety restrictions relating to the COVID-19 emergency have caused delays in performing and completing the real estate appraisals and evaluations needed to comply with federal appraisal regulations.
The final rule becomes effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register. The final rule expires on December 31, 2020, unless extended by the agencies. The final rule adopts the interim final rule issued by the agencies on April 17, 2020, without substantive change.
This final rule applies to all OCC-supervised banks.1
This final rule provides temporary deferral of the requirements for appraisals and evaluations under the agencies’ appraisal regulations. The deferrals
The final rule clarifies that transactions for the “acquisition, development, and construction” of real estate excluded from the 120-day deferral period means, for purposes of this rule, those loans described in the Instructions for Schedule RC-C, “Loans and Lease Financing Receivables,” Part I, “Loans and Leases,” item 1.a, “Construction, Land Development, and Other Land Loans,” of the call report.
Please contact G. Kevin Lawton, Appraiser and Real Estate Specialist, at (202) 649-6670; or Mitchell Plave, Special Counsel, at (202) 649-5490.
Jonathan V. Gould Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel
1 "Banks" refers to national banks, federal savings associations, and federal branches and agencies of foreign banking organizations.