[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32215-32216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15735]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Notice of Proposals to Engage in Permissible Nonbanking 
Activities or to Acquire Companies that are Engaged in Permissible 
Nonbanking Activities

    The companies listed in this notice have given notice under section 
4 of the Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 1843) (BHC Act) and 
Regulation Y, (12 CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to acquire or 
control voting securities or assets of a company, including the 
companies listed below, that engages either directly or through a 
subsidiary or other company, in a nonbanking activity that is listed in 
Sec.  225.28 of Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has 
determined by Order to be closely related to banking and permissible 
for bank holding companies. Unless otherwise noted, these activities 
will be conducted throughout the United States.
    Each notice is available for inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 
indicated. The notice also will be available for inspection at the 
offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their 
views in writing on the question whether the proposal complies with the 
standards of section 4 of the BHC Act.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding the applications must be 
received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of 
Governors not later than July 9, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III,

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Assistant Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 
23261-4528:
    1. BB&T Corporation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; to acquire 
Maryland Federal Bancorp, Inc., Hyattsville, Maryland, and thereby 
indirectly acquire its subsidiary, Maryland Federal Savings and Loan 
Association, Hyattsville, Maryland, and thereby engage in operating a 
savings and loan association, securities brokerage, and marketing 
credit-related insurance, pursuant to Secs.  225.28(b)(4)(ii), 
(b)(7)(i), and (b)(11)(i) of Regulation Y.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc., Beloit, Wisconsin; to acquire First 
Financial Bancorp, Inc., Belvidere, Illinois, and thereby indirectly 
acquire First Federal Savings Bank of Belvidere, Belvidere, Illinois, 
and thereby engage in the operation of a savings association, pursuant 
to Sec.  225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation Y.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 9, 1998.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-15735 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]
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