43772 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 148 / Wednesday, August 2, 2006 / Notices 

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 http://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 August 25, 

2006. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York (Anne McEwen, Financial 

Specialist) 33 Liberty Street, New York, 

New York 10045-0001: 

1. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, 

S.A., Bilbao, Spain; to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of Texas 

Regional Bancshares, Inc., McAllen, 

Texas; Texas Regional Delaware, Inc., 

Wilmington, Delaware; and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of Texas 

State Bank, McAllen, Texas. 

2. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, 

S.A., Bilbao, Spain; to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of State 

National Bancshares, Inc., Fort Worth, 

Texas; State National Bancshares of 

Delaware, Inc., Dover, Delaware; and 

thereby indirectly acquire voting shares 

of State National Bank, Fort Worth, 

Texas. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 

(W. Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200 

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201- 

2272: 

1. Sterling Bancshares, Inc., Houston, 

Texas, and Sterling Bancorporation, 

Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; to merge 

with, and thereby acquire 100 percent of 

the voting shares of BOTH, Inc., 

Kerrville, Texas, and thereby indirectly 

acquire BOTH of Delaware, Inc., 

Wilmington, Delaware, and Bank of the 

Hills, National Association, Kerrville, 

Texas. 

C. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 

Regional and Community Bank Group) 

101 Market Street, San Francisco, 

California 94105-1579: 

1. Community Bancorp, Las Vegas, 

Nevada; to acquire 100 percent of the 

voting shares of Cactus Commerce Bank, 

an Arizona Banking Corporation, 

Glendale, Arizona. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 27, 2006. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E6–12398 Filed 8–1–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System. 

TIME AND DATE: 12 p.m., Monday, August 

7, 2006. 

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal 

Reserve Board Building, 20th and C 

Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20551. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Personnel actions (appointments, 

promotions, assignments, 

reassignments, and salary actions) 

involving individual Federal Reserve 

System employees. 

2. Any items carried forward from a 

previously announced meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michelle Smith, Director, or Dave 

Skidmore, Assistant to the Board, Office 

of Board Members at 202–452–2955. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may 

call 202–452–3206 beginning at 

approximately 5 p.m. two business days 

before the meeting for a recorded 

announcement of bank and bank 

holding company applications 

scheduled for the meeting; or you may 

contact the Board’s Web site at http:// 

www.federalreserve.gov for an electronic 

announcement that not only lists 

applications, but also indicates 

procedural and other information about 

the meeting. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 28, 2006. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 06–6654 Filed 7–31–06; 9:30 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

Maximum Per Diem Rates for the 

Continental United States (CONUS) 

AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide 

Policy, General Services Administration 

(GSA). 

ACTION: Notice of Per Diem Bulletin 07–

1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 continental 

United States (CONUS) per diem rates. 

SUMMARY: The General Services 

Administration’s (GSA’s) annual per 

diem review has resulted in lodging and 

meal allowance changes for locations 

within the continental United States 

(CONUS) to provide for the 

reimbursement of Federal employees’

expenses covered by per diem. Per Diem 

Bulletin 07–1 updates the maximum per 

diem amounts in existing per diem 

localities. The standard CONUS lodging 

rate of $60 is unchanged. The CONUS 

per diem rates prescribed in Bulletin 

07–1 may be found at http:// 

www.gsa.gov/perdiem. GSA based the 

lodging per diem rates on the average 

daily rate that the lodging industry 

reports. The use of such data in the per 

diem rate setting process enhances the 

Government’s ability to obtain policy 

compliant lodging where it is needed. In 

addition to the annual lodging study, 

GSA identified 26 new or redefined 

non-standard areas (NSA’s). In order to 

base its per diem recommendations for 

those areas on accurate meal cost data, 

GSA commissioned an out of cycle meal 

survey in each of the 26 areas. For a 

complete listing of pertinent 

information that must be submitted 

through a Federal executive agency for 

GSA to restudy a location if a CONUS 

or standard CONUS per diem rate is 

insufficient to meet necessary expenses, 

please review numbers 4 and 5 of our 

per diem Frequently Asked Questions at 

(www.gsa.gov/perdiemfaqs). 

DATES: This notice is effective October 

1, 2006, and applies for travel 

performed on or after October 1, 2006 

through September 30, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

clarification of content, contact Lois 

Mandell, Office of Governmentwide 


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