By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose in the coming days narrowing a key part of civil-rights era fair-lending regulations as Republican President Donald Trump's administration overhauls protections and rules it says burden companies, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The changes to the CFPB's rules implementing the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) follow Trump's April executive order that federal regulators curtail regulations intended to prohibit policies and practices with unintentionally discriminatory impacts. Curbing so-called "disparate impact" liability, which is common in employment-related cases, removes a tool the government has used for decades to police racial and gender discriminati

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