[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 233 (Monday, December 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 68101]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31458]


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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 (12 U.S.C. 1843). 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 December 30, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. First Banks, Inc., Creve Coeur, Missouri, and First Banks 
America, Inc., Clayton, Missouri; to acquire 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Lippo Bank, San Francisco, California.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Pinnacle Bancorp, Central City, Nebraska; to acquire 100 percent 
of the voting shares of The Burns National Bank of Durango, Durango, 
Colorado, and thereby indirectly acquire Western Bank, Gallup, New 
Mexico. Comments on this application must be received by December 28, 
1999.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Maria Villanueva, 
Consumer Regulation Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 
94105-1579:
    1. Security Bank Holding Company ESOP and Security Bank Holding 
Company, both of Coos Bay, Oregon; to acquire 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Williamette Valley Bank (In Organization), Salem, Oregon.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 30, 
1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-31458 Filed 12-3-99; 8:45 am]
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