The NCUA will pursue statutory changes to its authority as part of the agency's three-year strategic plan, which was released Wednesday for public comment.

According to the Strategic Plan 2014 – 2017, the NCUA will ask Congress to grant it the authority to regulate, examine, and take enforcement actions against vendors and CUSOs. The new authority would provide the NCUA parity with other federal financial regulatory agencies, the plan said.

A second legislative priority outlined in the plan is to re-establish the NCUA's emergency borrowing authority of $30 billion, which sunset on Dec. 31, 2010, and revise the Federal Credit Union Act to modernize the Central Liquidity Facility. The NCUA will also seek to obtain more flexibility in setting the normal operating level of the NCUSIF, as well as more flexibility in building retained earnings.

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