5656 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 19 / Friday, January 30, 2009 / Notices 

1 The comment must be accompanied by an 

explicit request for confidential treatment, 

including the factual and legal basis for the request, 

and must identify the specific portions of the 

comment to be withheld from the public record. 

The request will be granted or denied by the 

Commission’s General Counsel, consistent with 

applicable law and the public interest. See 

Commission Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 

Reich (Director, Office of Thrift 

Supervision), and Chairman Sheila C. 

Bair, that Corporation business required 

its consideration of the matters on less 

than seven days’ notice to the public; 

and that no earlier notice of the meeting 

than that previously provided on 

January 22, 2009, was practicable. 

The meeting was held in the Board 

Room of the FDIC Building located at 

550 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC. 

Dated: January 27, 2009. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–2059 Filed 1–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6714–01–P 

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 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. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at 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 February 26, 

2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York (Ivan Hurwitz, Bank Applications 

Officer) 33 Liberty Street, New York, 

New York 10045–0001: 

1. Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., Dublin, 

Ireland, M&T Bank Corporation, and 

First Empire State Holding Company, all 

of Buffalo, New York, to acquire 

Provident Bankshares Corporation, 

Baltimore, Maryland, and merge 

Provident Bankshares Corporation with 

and into First Empire State Holding 

Company, and thereby indirectly 

acquire Provident Bank of Maryland, 

Baltimore, Maryland. 

In connection with this application, 

First Empire State Holding Company 

has applied to become a bank holding 

company. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 27, 2009. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–2015 Filed 1–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies; 

Correction 

This notice corrects a notice (FR Doc. 

E9-1697) published on pages 4746 and 

4747 of the issue for Tuesday, January 

27, 2009. 

Under the Federal Reserve Bank of 

Atlanta heading, the entry for David 

Weir Wood, II, Laura Halsey Wood, John 

Halsey Wood, David Weir Wood, II, 

Sidney Wood Clap, Katherine Wood 

Hamilton, all of Birmingham, Alabama, 

and Susan Soule Wood, Pensacola, 

Florida, is revised to read as follows: 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

(Steve Foley, Vice President) 1000 

Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 

30309: 

1. David Weir Wood, II, Laura Halsey 

Wood, John Halsey Wood, David Weir 

Wood, II, Sidney Wood Clap, Katherine 

Wood Hamilton, all of Birmingham, 

Alabama, and Susan Wood Soule, 

Pensacola, Florida; to acquire additional 

shares of Capital South Bancorp, and its 

subsidiary CapitalSouth Bank, both of 

Birmingham, Alabama. 

Comments on this application must 

be received by February 9, 2009. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 27, 2009. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–2014 Filed 1–29–09 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

[File No. 081 0214] 

Dow Chemical Company; Analysis of 

Agreement Containing Consent Orders 

to Aid Public Comment 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed Consent Agreement. 

SUMMARY: The consent agreement in this 

matter settles alleged violations of 

federal law prohibiting unfair or 

deceptive acts or practices or unfair 

methods of competition. The attached 

Analysis to Aid Public Comment 

describes both the allegations in the 

draft complaint and the terms of the 

consent order—embodied in the consent 

agreement—that would settle these 

allegations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 23, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘Dow 

Chemical, File No. 081 0214,’’ to 

facilitate the organization of comments. 

A comment filed in paper form should 

include this reference both in the text 

and on the envelope, and should be 

mailed or delivered to the following 

address: Federal Trade Commission/ 

Office of the Secretary, Room 135-H, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 

Washington, D.C. 20580. Comments 

containing confidential material must be 

filed in paper form, must be clearly 

labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’ and must 

comply with Commission Rule 4.9(c). 

16 CFR 4.9(c) (2005).1 The FTC is 

requesting that any comment filed in 

paper form be sent by courier or 

overnight service, if possible, because 

U.S. postal mail in the Washington area 

and at the Commission is subject to 

delay due to heightened security 

precautions. Comments that do not 

contain any nonpublic information may 

instead be filed in electronic form by 

following the instructions on the webbased form at (http:// 

secure.commentworks.com/ftcDowChemical). To ensure that the 

Commission considers an electronic 

comment, you must file it on that webbased form. 

The FTC Act and other laws the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

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