[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 211 (Monday, November 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67404-67405]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27768]


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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

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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 no later than November 27, 2015.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Richard Walker, Community 
Affairs Officer) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210-2204:
    1. ESB Bancorp MHC, Easthampton, Massachusetts; (``ESB MHC'') to 
merge with Hometown Community Bancorp MHC, Oxford, Massachusetts 
(``Hometown MHC''), with ESB MHC as the surviving entity to be known as 
``Hometown Financial Group, MHC''; and (ii) ESB Bancorp, Inc., 
Easthampton, Massachusetts (``ESB Bancorp''), to merge with Hometown 
Community Bancorp, Inc., Oxford, Massachusetts (``Hometown Bancorp''), 
with ESB Bancorp as the surviving entity to be known as ``Hometown 
Financial Group, Inc.'' Upon consummation of the merger, Easthampton 
Savings Bank and Hometown Bank will remain separate wholly-owned 
subsidiaries of Hometown Financial Group, Inc.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 27, 
2015.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2015-27768 Filed 10-30-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6210-01-P