[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 6903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3424]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other 
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company 
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the 
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the 
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available 
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested 
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated 
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the 
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether 
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards 
in section 4 of the BHC Act. Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking 
activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than March 7, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Maria Villanueva, Manager 
of Analytical Support, Consumer Regulation Group) 101 Market Street, 
San Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. Castle Creek Capital Partners Fund IIa, LP, and Castle Creek 
Capital Partners Fund IIb, LP, both of Rancho Santa Fe, California; to 
acquire more than 5 percent of the voting shares of Valley Bancorp, 
Inc., El Paso, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire Montwood National 
Bank, El Paso, Texas.
    2. Castle Creek Capital Partners Fund IIa, LP, and Castle Creek 
Capital Partners Fund IIb, LP, both of Rancho Santa Fe, California; to 
acquire up to an aggregate 12 percent of the voting shares of State 
National Bancshares, Inc., Lubbock, Texas, and thereby indirectly 
acquire State National Bank of West Texas, Lubbock, Texas, and Sierra 
Bank, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
    3. Eggemeyer Advisory Corp., WJR Corp., and Castle Creek Capital, 
LLC, all of Rancho Santa Fe, California; to acquire up to an aggregate 
25 percent of the voting shares of State National Bancshares, Inc., 
Lubbock, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire State National Bank of 
West Texas, Lubbock, Texas, and Sierra Bank, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 8, 
1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-3424 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-F