[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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