[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 69 (Monday, April 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 18996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8724]



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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. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    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 May 4, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Islands Bancorp, Beaufort, South Carolina; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Islands Community Bank, N.A., Beaufort, South Carolina (in 
organization).
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Lois Berthaume, Vice President) 
104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713:
    1. First Central Bancshares, Inc., Lenoir City, Tennessee; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of First Central Bank of 
Monroe County, Sweetwater, Tennessee (in organization).
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Lisco State Company, Lisco, Nebraska, and First Nebraska Bancs, 
Inc., Sidney, Nebraska; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Kimball Bancorp, Inc. Kimball, Nebraska, and thereby indirectly acquire 
the American National Bank, Kimball, Nebraska.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Plains Bancorp, Inc., Lubbock, Texas; to merge with Sudan 
Bancshares, Inc., Sudan, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire First 
National Bank, Sudan, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 4, 2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-8724 Filed 4-7-00; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P