[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 154 (Monday, August 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47565-47566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-20420]


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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

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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 http://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 September 4, 2003.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Sue Costello, Vice President) 
1000 Peachtree Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470:
    1. The Colonial BancGroup, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama; to merge with 
Sarasota Bancorporation, Inc., Sarasota, Florida, and thereby 
indirectly acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Sarasota Bank, 
Sarasota, Florida.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Richard M. Todd, Vice 
President and Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291:
    1. Quality Bankshares, Inc., Fingal, North Dakota; to merge with 
Page Bank Holding Company, Page, North Dakota, and thereby indirectly 
acquire Page State Bank, Page, North Dakota.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 
Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105-1579:
    1. Rainier Pacific Financial Group, Inc., Fife, Washington; to 
become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Rainier Pacific Savings Bank, Fife, Washington.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 5, 
2003.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 03-20420 Filed 8-8-03; 8:45 am]
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