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Exhibit 33.2

ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE SERVICING CRITERIA

Corporate Trust Services division of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Company”) is responsible for assessing compliance with the applicable servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company has determined that the servicing criteria are applicable in regards to the servicing platform for the period as follows:

Platform: Publicly-issued (i.e., transaction-level reporting initially required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and certain privately-issued (i.e., for which transaction-level reporting is required pursuant to contractual obligation) residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities, for which the Company provides master servicing, trustee, securities administration or paying agent services, excluding any such securities issued by any agency or instrumentality of the U.S. government (other than the Federal Deposit Insurance Company) or any government sponsored entity, and further excluding the transactions issued prior to 2006 for which Wells Fargo outsources all material servicing activities (as defined by Regulation AB) (the “Platform”).

Applicable Servicing Criteria: All servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d), to the extent required in the related transaction agreements, or required by the Item 1122(d) servicing criteria in regards to the activities performed by the Company, except for the following criteria: 1122(d)(4)(ii), 1122(d)(4)(iv), 1122(d)(4)(v), 1122(d)(4)(viii), 1122(d)(4)(ix), 1122(d)(4)(x), 1122(d)(4)(xi),
1122(d)(4)(xii) and 1122(d)(4)(xiii), which Management has determined are not applicable to the activities the Company performs with respect to the Platform (“the Applicable Servicing Criteria”).

Period: As of and for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012 (the “Period”).

Third parties classified as vendors: With respect to servicing criterion 1122(d)(4)(i), the Company has engaged a vendor to handle certain Uniform Commercial Code filing functions required by the servicing criterion. The Company has determined that this vendor is not considered a “servicer” as defined in Item 1101(j) of Regulation AB, and the Company elects to take responsibility for assessing compliance with the portion of the servicing criterion applicable to this vendor as permitted by Interpretation 17.06 of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations (“Interpretation 17.06”). The Company has policies and procedures in place to provide reasonable assurance that the vendor’s activities comply in all material respects with the servicing criterion applicable to the vendor. The Company is solely responsible for determining that it meets the SEC requirements to apply Interpretation 17.06 for the vendor and related criterion.

With respect to the Platform and the Period, the Company provides the following assessment of compliance with respect to the Applicable Servicing Criteria:

1. The Company is responsible for assessing its compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria.

2. The Company has assessed compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria, including the servicing criterion for which compliance is determined based on Interpretation 17.06 as described above. In performing this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission in paragraph (d) of Item 1122 of Regulation AB.

3. Based on such assessment, the Company has complied, in all material respects with the Applicable Servicing Criteria, except as described in Schedule A hereto.

4. Schedule B hereto includes Management’s discussion of the exceptions noted in Schedule A, including remediation efforts taken by the Company.

KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an attestation report on the Company’s compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria for the Period.

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, National Association
By:   /s/ Brian Bartlett
  Brian Bartlett
Title:   Executive Vice President
Dated:   February 28, 2013


Exhibit 33.2

Schedule A

Material Instances of Noncompliance by the Company

Management’s assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission in paragraph (d) of Item 1122 of Regulation AB as of December 31, 2012 and for the Period, disclosed that material instances of noncompliance occurred with respect to the servicing criteria set forth in both of Items 1122(d)(3)(i)(B) and 1122(d)(3)(ii), as follows:

 

  With respect to servicing criterion 1122(d)(3)(i)(B), certain reports to investors did not provide information calculated in accordance with the terms specified in the transaction agreements.

 

  With respect to servicing criterion 1122(d)(3)(ii), certain amounts due to investors were not allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements.

Schedule B

Management’s Discussion on Material Instances of Noncompliance by the Company

Disclosure: During the Period, Wells Fargo identified Payment Errors (as defined below) and Reporting Errors (as defined below) on certain residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”) transactions in the Platform. Although no individually identified error, in and of itself, was found to be material to the Platform, when the errors were considered in the aggregate, Management determined that, for Platform purposes, there were material instances of noncompliance with respect to both Items 1122(d)(3)(i)(B) and
1122(d)(3)(ii) of Regulation AB.

For purposes of this Schedule B, the term “Payment Errors” means the identified payment errors that occurred during the Period and that, when considered in the aggregate, led to Management’s determination that there was a material instance of noncompliance for the Platform with respect to Item 1122(d)(3)(i)(B) of Regulation AB. For purposes of this Schedule B, the term “Reporting Errors” means the identified reporting errors that occurred during the Period and that, when considered in the aggregate, led to Management’s determination that there was a material instance of noncompliance for the Platform with respect to
Item 1122(d)(3)(ii) of Regulation AB.

The identified Payment Errors and Reporting Errors on such RMBS transactions were attributable to certain failures in processes relating to waterfall calculations and reporting that, although adapted over time, still insufficiently addressed the impact of the unprecedented levels of collateral degradation in RMBS transactions on the calculation of principal and interest payments and losses and associated investor reporting.

Scope of the Material Instances of Noncompliance: The identified Payment Errors and Reporting Errors that led to Management’s determination that material instances of noncompliance with respect to the Platform had occurred were limited to certain RMBS transactions in the Platform. There were no identified Payment Errors or Reporting Errors for non-RMBS transactions in the Platform which contributed to Management’s determination that there were material instances of noncompliance for the Platform. In some instances, the identified Payment Errors which contributed to Management’s determination that there were material instances of noncompliance for the Platform were also considered material to the transactions on which they occurred. None of the identified Reporting Errors which contributed to Management’s determination that there were material instances of noncompliance for the Platform were considered material for a particular transaction. For all transactions in the Platform (including RMBS transactions with identified Payment Errors and Reporting Errors), Management delivered an Item 1123 certification to the extent it was required to do so pursuant to the requirements of the applicable transaction documents and Regulation AB. Where there was an identified Payment Error that was considered material for an individual transaction, the Item 1123 certification included a description of the nature and scope of such error.

Remediation: Appropriate actions have been taken or are in the process of being taken to remediate the identified Payment Errors and Reporting Errors that led to Management’s determination that material instances of noncompliance with respect to the Platform had occurred. Further, adjustments have been or will be made to the waterfall calculations and other operational processes and quality control measures applied to the RMBS transactions in the Platform to minimize the risk of future payment and reporting errors.

Material Instance of Noncompliance by any Vendor

NONE

Material Deficiencies in Company’s Policies and Procedures to Monitor Vendor’s Compliance

NONE