[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 190 (Thursday, October 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 59152]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24911]


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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 applications will also 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 October 30, 2015.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Prabal Chakrabarti, Senior Vice 
President) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210-2204:
    1. Maine Community Bancorp, MHC and Maine Community Bancorp, Inc., 
both in Westbrook, Maine; to become a mutual bank holding company and a 
stock holding company, respectively, by acquiring Biddeford Savings 
Bank, Biddeford, Maine and Mechanics Savings Bank, Auburn, Maine.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Yvonne Sparks, Community 
Development Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. The McGehee Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan, McGehee, 
Arkansas; to acquire up to an additional 35 percent of the voting 
shares of Southeast Financial Bankstock Corp., and thereby indirectly 
acquire additional voting shares of McGehee Bank, both in McGehee, 
Arkansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
Michael J. Lewandowski
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2015-24911 Filed 9-30-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P