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Section 10(g) of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to adopt regulations establishing standards of community investment or service for Federal Home Loan Bank (Bank) members to maintain continued access to long-term Bank advances. This final rule amends FHFA's community support regulation to streamline and simplify the administrative process requirements under the regulation. The amendments do not affect the substantive requirements of the regulation, which include FHFA review and assessment of applicable members of the Banks every two years, or change the criteria for determining member compliance with the community support standards and eligibility for access to long-term Bank advances. The amendments replaced the prior process of selecting one eighth of all applicable members for eight quarterly reviews by FHFA over a two-year review cycle, with a new process of FHFA reviewing all applicable members at the same time every two years.