Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 235 / Wednesday, December 8, 2004 / Notices 71057

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411 

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 

63166–2034: 

1. Home Bancshares, Inc., Conway, 

Arkansas; to acquire and additional 68 

percent, for a total of 100 percent, of the 

voting shares of TCBancorp, Inc., North 

Little Rock, Arkansas, and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of Twin 

City Bank, North Little Rock, Arkansas. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 

Regional and Community Bank Group) 

101 Market Street, San Francisco, 

California 94105–1579: 

1. Westamerica Bancorporation, San 

Rafael, California; to merge with 

Redwood Empire Bancorp, Santa Rosa, 

California, and thereby indirectly 

acquire National Bank of the Redwoods, 

Santa Rosa, California. Comments 

regarding this application must be 

received by December 27, 2004.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, December 2, 2004. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 04–26937 Filed 12–7–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Notice of Proposals to Engage in 

Permissible Nonbanking Activities or 

to Acquire Companies that are 

Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking 

Activities; Correction 

This notice corrects a notice (FR Doc. 

04–26284) published on page 69370 of 

the issue for Monday, November 29, 

2004. 

Under the Federal Reserve Bank of 

San Francisco heading, the entry for The 

Bank of Tokyo–Mitsubishi, Ltd., and 

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc., 

both of Tokyo, Japan, is revised to read 

as follows: 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 

Regional and Community Bank Group) 

101 Market Street, San Francisco, 

California 94105–1579: 

1. The Bank of Tokyo–Mitsubishi, 

Ltd., and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial 

Group, Inc., both of Tokyo, Japan; to 

acquire UFJ Futures, L.L.C., Chicago, 

Illinois, and Central Leasing (U.S.A.), 

Inc., Florence, Kentucky, and thereby 

engage in the finance leasing of 

equipment, pursuant to section 

225.28(b)(3), the execution and 

clearance of futures and options 

contracts and other transactional 

services, pursuant to section 225.28 

(b)(7) of Regulation Y. 

In addition, Mitsubishi Bank & Trust, 

Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, and 

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc., 

Tokyo, Japan, has applied to acquire 

UFJ Trust Company of New York, New 

York, and thereby engage in providing 

trust services on a national and 

international basis, pursuant to section 

225.28(b)(5) of Regulation Y. 

Comments on this application must 

be received by December 13, 2004.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, December 2, 2004. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 04–26936 Filed 12–7–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Granting of Request for Early 

Termination of the Waiting Period 

Under the Premerger Notification 

Rules 

Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 

U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the 

Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust 

Improvements Act of 1976, requires 

persons contemplating certain mergers 

or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General advance notice and to wait 

designated periods before 

consummation of such plans. Section 

7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, 

in individual cases, to terminate this 

waiting period prior to its expiration 

and requires that notice of this action be 

published in the Federal Register.

The following transactions were 

granted early termination of the waiting 

period provided by law and the 

premerger notification rules. The grants 

were made by the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General for the Antitrust Division of the 

Department of Justice. Neither agency 

intends to take any action with respect 

to these proposed acquisitions during 

the applicable waiting period.

Trans # Acquiring Acquired Entities 

TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION—11/01/2004

20050086 ......................... Warburg Pincus Private Equity VIII, 

L.P.

Parthenon Investors II, L.P ............... Spheris Inc. 

20050097 ......................... FS Equity Partners V, L.P ................. Gregg Appliances Inc ........................ Gregg Appliances Inc. 

20050103 ......................... Sumner M. Redstone ........................ Raul Alarcon, Jr ................................. Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. 

20050121 ......................... Warburg Pincus Private Equity VIII, 

L.P.

Spheris Holding III, Inc ...................... Spheris Holding III, Inc. 

TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION—11/03/2004

20050090 ......................... Takeda Pharmaceutical Company 

Limited.

BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc ..... BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION—11/03/2004

20050050 ......................... Henkel KGaA ..................................... The Clorox Company ........................ Splitco 

20050051 ......................... Cooper Cameron Corporation ........... Precision Castparts ........................... AOP Industries, Inc., CW Valves 

Services Co., Inc., PCC Flow 

Technologies LP, PCC Valves & 

Controls, Inc. 

20050081 ......................... William Sauder .................................. Riverside Forest Products Limited .... Riverside Forest Products Limited. 

20050094 ......................... Wellspring Capital Partners III, LLP .. The Stanley Works ............................ The Stanley Works. 

20050102 ......................... Computershare Limited ..................... DST Systems, Inc ............................. EquiServe, Inc. 

20050108 ......................... Computer Associates International, 

Inc.

Netegrity, Inc ..................................... Netegrity, Inc.