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B) under Public Assistance and Hazard

Mitigation in the designated areas and any

other forms of assistance under the Stafford

Act you may deem appropriate. Consistent

with the requirement that Federal assistance

be supplemental, any Federal funds provided

under the Stafford Act for Public Assistance

or Hazard Mitigation will be limited to 75

percent of the total eligible costs.

Further, you are authorized to make

changes to this declaration to the extent

allowable under the Stafford Act.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant

to the authority vested in the Director of

the Federal Emergency Management

Agency under Executive Order 12148, I

hereby appoint Thomas P. Davies of the

Federal Emergency Management Agency

to act as the Federal Coordinating

Officer for this declared disaster.

I do hereby determine the following

areas of the State of Maryland to have

been affected adversely by this declared

major disaster:

Emergency protective measures (Category

B) under Public Assistance for Baltimore City

and the counties of Anne Arundel, Baltimore,

Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Howard, Kent, St.

Mary’s, Montgomery, Prince Georges, Queen

Anne’s and Talbot.

All counties within the State of

Maryland are eligible to apply for

assistance under the Hazard Mitigation

Grant Program.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used

for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537,

Community Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora

Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis

Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services

Program; 83.541, Disaster Unemployment

Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression

Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family

Grant (IFG) Program; 83.544, Public

Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing

Program; 83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant

Program)

James L. Witt,

Director.

[FR Doc. 00–10145 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

[FEMA–1323–DR]

Texas; Major Disaster and Related

Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the

Presidential declaration of a major

disaster for the State of Texas (FEMA–

1323–DR), dated April 7, 2000, and

related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 7, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Madge Dale, Response and Recovery

Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, Washington, DC

20472, (202) 646–3772.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is

hereby given that, in a letter dated April

7, 2000, the President declared a major

disaster under the authority of the

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and

Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.

5121 et seq.), as follows:

I have determined that the damage in

certain areas of the State of Texas, resulting

from severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding

on March 28–29, 2000, is of sufficient

severity and magnitude to warrant a major

disaster declaration under the Robert T.

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency

Assistance Act, P.L. 93–288, as amended

(‘‘the Stafford Act’’). I, therefore, declare that

such a major disaster exists in the State of

Texas.

In order to provide Federal assistance, you

are hereby authorized to allocate from funds

available for these purposes, such amounts as

you find necessary for Federal disaster

assistance and administrative expenses.

You are authorized to provide Individual

Assistance, Public Assistance and Hazard

Mitigation in the designated areas. Consistent

with the requirement that Federal assistance

be supplemental, any Federal funds provided

under the Stafford Act for Public Assistance

or Hazard Mitigation will be limited to 75

percent of the total eligible costs.

Further, you are authorized to make

changes to this declaration to the extent

allowable under the Stafford Act.

The time period prescribed for the

implementation of section 310(a),

Priority to Certain Applications for

Public Facility and Public Housing

Assistance, 42 U.S.C. 5153, shall be for

a period not to exceed six months after

the date of this declaration.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant

to the authority vested in the Director of

the Federal Emergency Management

Agency under Executive Order 12148, I

hereby appoint Joseph Bray of the

Federal Emergency Management Agency

to act as the Federal Coordinating

Officer for this declared disaster.

I do hereby determine the following

areas of the State of Texas to have been

affected adversely by this declared

major disaster:

Tarrant County for Individual Assistance

and Public Assistance.

All counties within the State of Texas

are eligible to apply for assistance under

the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used

for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537,

Community Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora

Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis

Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services

Program; 83.541, Disaster Unemployment

Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression

Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family

Grant (IFG) Program; 83.544, Public

Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing

Program; 83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant

Program)

James L. Witt,

Director.

[FR Doc. 00–10144 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Fire Defense Deployment Analysis

Project

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA)/ United

States Fire Administration (USFA).

ACTION: Notice of postponement of

research project.

SUMMARY: We (FEMA) give notice that

we have postponed indefinitely our

research project to update a

methodology on ‘‘Fire Defense

Deployment Analysis’’. On March 7,

2000 we gave notice in the Federal

Register, 65 FR 12007, of the availability

of funds to update the 1968 analysis

using a cooperative agreement. Because

of this postponement we cannot honor

requests for copies of the ‘‘Assistance

Application Package’’ now. No further

information is available at this time.

Dated: April 11, 2000.

Kenneth Burris,

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Fire

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–10143 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Change in Bank Control Notices;

Acquisitions of Shares of Banks or

Bank Holding Companies

The notificants listed below have

applied under the Change in Bank

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank

holding company. The factors that are

considered in acting on the notices are

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).

The notices are available for

immediate inspection at the Federal

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices

also will be available for inspection at

the offices of the Board of Governors.

Interested persons may express their

views in writing to the Reserve Bank

indicated for that notice or to the offices

of the Board of Governors. Comments

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must be received not later than May 8,

2000.

A. FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF

PHILADELPHIA (Michael E. Collins, Senior

Vice President) 100 North 6th Street,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105–

1521:

1. Madison Bancshares Group, Ltd.,

Donna Depaul-Bartynski, Anthony

DePaul, and Andrea Naticchione, as Cotrustees, of the Peter DePaul Irrevocable

Trust, all of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania; to

acquire voting shares of Madison

Bancshares Group, Ltd., Blue Bell,

Pennsylvania, and thereby indirectly

acquire voting shares of Madison Bank,

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 18, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–10048 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Change in Bank Control Notices;

Acquisitions of Shares of Banks or

Bank Holding Companies

The notificants listed below have

applied under the Change in Bank

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank

holding company. The factors that are

considered in acting on the notices are

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).

The notices are available for

immediate inspection at the Federal

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices

also will be available for inspection at

the offices of the Board of Governors.

Interested persons may express their

views in writing to the Reserve Bank

indicated for that notice or to the offices

of the Board of Governors. Comments

must be received not later than May 9,

2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (D. Michael Manies, Assistant Vice

President), 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198–0001:

1. Robert M. Mortimer, Delphos,

Kansas; to acquire voting shares of

Delphos, Inc., Delphos, Kansas, and

thereby indirectly acquire voting shares

of State Bank of Delphos, Delphos,

Kansas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 19, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–10194 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

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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.

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 May 19, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

(Richard Walker, Community Affairs

Officer), 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston,

Massachusetts 02106–2204:

1. Island Bancorp, Inc., Edgartown,

Massachusetts; to become a bank

holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of The

Edgartown National Bank, Edgartown,

Massachusetts.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Lois Berthaume, Vice President), 104

Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia

30303–2713:

1. First Security Group, Inc.,

Chattanooga, Tennessee; to acquire 100

percent of the voting shares of First

Central Bank of Monroe County,

Sweetwater, Tennessee (in

organization).

C. Federal Reserve Bank of San

Francisco (Maria Villanueva, Consumer

Regulation Group), 101 Market Street,

San Francisco, California 94105–1579:

1. Wells Fargo & Company, San

Francisco, California; to acquire 100

percent of the voting shares of 1st

Choice Financial Corporation, Greeley,

Colorado, and thereby indirectly acquire

1st Choice Bank, Greeley, Colorado.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 19, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–10193 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Notice of Proposals To Engage in

Permissible Nonbanking Activities or

To Acquire Companies That Are

Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking

Activities

The companies listed in this notice

have given notice under section 4 of the

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12

CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to

acquire or control voting securities or

assets of a company, including the

companies listed below, that engages

either directly or through a subsidiary or

other company, in a nonbanking activity

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y

(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has

determined by Order to be closely

related to banking and permissible for

bank holding companies. Unless

otherwise noted, these activities will be

conducted throughout the United States.

Each notice is available for inspection

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated.

The notice also will be available for

inspection at the offices of the Board of

Governors. Interested persons may

express their views in writing on the

question whether the proposal complies

with the standards of section 4 of the

BHC Act. 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 the applications must be

received at the Reserve Bank indicated

or the offices of the Board of Governors

not later than May 18, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

(Paul Kaboth, Banking Supervision)

1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio

44101–2566:

1. The Bank of Kentucky Financial

Corporation, Florence, Kentucky; to

acquire Fort Thomas Financial

Corporation, Fort Thomas, Kentucky,

and thereby indirectly acquire Fort

Thomas Savings Bank, FSB, Fort

Thomas, Kentucky, and thereby engage