Maintenance Notice of HUD’s Lender Electronic Assessment Portal and Electronic Appraisal Delivery System. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced a systems check for its Lender Electronic Assessment Portal (LEAP) and Electronic Appraisal Delivery (EAD) system as part of routine maintenance. LEAP will be unavailable from 8 a.m. (Eastern), Nov. 10, 2017, through 8 a.m. (eastern), Nov. 12, 2017. During the period, lenders will be unable to submit recertification packages, change requests, notices of material events, or edit institutional data. Normal operations will resume at 8 a.m., Nov. 12. The EAD Integration and Production system is scheduled for regular maintenance and will be unavailable from 12 p.m., Nov. 11, 2017, through 9 p.m., Nov. 12. Operations will resume once systems check is complete. FHA Issues Policy Waiver for Major Disaster Areas in Puerto Rico. The ...