[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 3, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15810-15811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8012]


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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 April 26, 2002.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Nicolet Bankshares, Inc., Green Bay, Wisconsin; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Nicolet National Bank, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Julie Stackhouse, Vice 
President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291:
    1. Peoples State Bancorp, Inc., Munising, Michigan; to become a 
bank

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holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Peoples State Bank of Munising, Munising, Michigan.
    2. State Bancshares of Ulen, Inc., Dilworth, Minnesota; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of K Roberts, Inc., Hendrum, 
Minnesota, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Viking Bank, 
Hendrum, Minnesota.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Susan Zubradt, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Lauritzen Corporation, Omaha, Nebraska; to acquire up to 0.9 
percent of the voting shares of First National of Nebraska, Inc., 
Omaha, Nebraska, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of First 
National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska; First National Bank, North 
Platte, Nebraska; Platte Valley State Bank & Trust Co., Kearney, 
Nebraska; Fremont National Bank & Trust Co., Fremont, Nebraska; First 
National Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Nebraska, First National Bank, 
Overland Park, Kansas; First National Bank South Dakota, Yankton, South 
Dakota; First National of Colorado, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado; and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of First National Bank, Fort 
Collins, Colorado; Union Colony Bank, Greeley, Colorado; First National 
Bank of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; First National of Illinois, Inc., 
Omaha, Nebraska; and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Castle 
Bank, N.A., DeKalb, Illinois.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 28, 
2002.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 02-8012 Filed 4-2-02; 8:45 am]
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