[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20350-20351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8662]


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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.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank

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indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than May 
6, 2011.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. United Bankshares, Inc., Charleston, West Virginia, through its 
subsidiary, UBC Holding Company, Inc., Parkersburg, West Virginia; to 
merge with Centra Financial Holdings, Inc., and thereby indirectly 
acquire Centra Financial Corporation-Martinsburg, Inc.; Centra 
Financial Corporation-Morgantown, Inc.; Centra Financial Corporation-
Uniontown, Inc.; Centra Financial Corporation-Hagerstown, Inc.; and 
Centra Bank, all located in Morgantown, West Virginia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Clifford Stanford, Vice 
President) 1000 Peachtree Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
    1. SC Acquisition Corporation, Cullman, Alabama; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of First 
Federal Savings & Loan Association, Cullman, Alabama.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Farmers State Bancshares, Inc., Dodge, Nebraska; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Farmers State Investment Co., and Farmers State Bank, both in Dodge, 
Nebraska

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 7, 2011.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2011-8662 Filed 4-11-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P