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Properties Trust Dated July 30, 1998; to 

retain control of Dickinson Financial 

Corporation II, Kansas City, Missouri, 

and its subsidiaries including: 

Dickinson Financial Corporation and 

Bank Midwest, National Association, 

both in Kansas City, Missouri; Armed 

Forces Bank, National Association, Fort 

Leavenworth, Kansas; Armed Forces 

Bank of California National Association, 

San Diego, California; Academy Bank, 

National Association, Colorado Springs, 

Colorado; Southern Commerce Bank, 

National Association, Tampa, Florida; 

and SunBank, National Association, 

Phoenix, Arizona, (in organization). Jane 

and Burton Dickinson also are filing to 

become members of the Dickinson 

Family Group, a group acting in concert, 

to control the above listed organizations. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, April 6, 2007. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–6849 Filed 4–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

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 7, 2007. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York (Anne MacEwen, Bank 

Applications Officer) 33 Liberty Street, 

New York, New York 10045-0001: 

1. The Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto, 

Canada; to acquire 10 percent of voting 

shares of First Bancorp, San Juan, 

Puerto Rico, and thereby acquire 

FirstBank Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto 

Rico. In connection with this 

application, Applicant also has applied 

to acquire Ponce General Corporation, 

San Juan, Puerto Rico and thereby 

acquire First Bank Florida, Miami, 

Florida, and thereby operate a savings 

association pursuant to section 225.25 

(b)(4) of Regulation Y. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414: 

1. LeRoy C. Darby, Inc. Employee 

Stock Ownership Plan, Monona, Iowa; 

to acquire 91.33 percent of the voting 

shares of Leroy C. Darby, Inc., and 

thereby indirectly acquiring 

Freedombank both of Elkader, Iowa. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, April 6, 2007. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–6847 Filed 4–10–07; 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 

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 7, 2007. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 

Regional and Community Bank Group) 

101 Market Street, San Francisco, 

California 94105-1579: 

1. Franklin Resources Inc., San Mateo, 

California, to retain 5.03 percent of 

Hudson City Bancorp, Inc., and thereby 

indirectly retain shares of its subsidiary, 

Hudson City Savings Bank, FSB, both of 

Paramus, New Jersey, and thereby 

engage in operating a savings 

association, pursuant to section 225.28 

(b)(4) of Regulation Y. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, April 6, 2007. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–6848 Filed 4–10–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. (Eastern Time) 

April 16, 2007. 

PLACE: 4th Floor Conference Room, 

1250 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20005. 

STATUS: Parts will be open to the public 

and parts closed to the public 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Parts Open to the Public 

1. Approval of the minutes of the 

March 19, 2007 Board member meeting 

2. Thrift Savings Plan activity report 

by the Executive Director 

a. Monthly Participant Activity Report 

b. Legislative Report 

3. Quarterly Reports 

a. Investment Policy Review 

b. Vendor Financial Reports 

4. Financial Audit Report 

Parts Closed to the Public 

5. Personnel 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Thomas J. Trabucco, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 


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1Commission Rule 4.2(d), 16 CFR 4.2(d). 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). 

Dated: April 9, 2007. 

Thomas K. Emswiler, 

Secretary to the Board, Federal Retirement 

Thrift Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 07–1821 Filed 4–9–07; 12:18 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The information collection 

requirements described below will be 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for review, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (‘‘PRA’’) (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). The 

Federal Trade Commission (‘‘FTC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) is seeking public 

comments on its proposal to extend 

through May 31, 2010 the current PRA 

clearance for information collection 

requirements contained its Antitrust 

Improvements Act Rules (‘‘HSR Rules’’) 

and corresponding Notification and 

Report Form for Certain Mergers and 

Acquisitions (‘‘Notification and Report 

Form’’), 16 CFR Parts 801–803. That 

clearance expires on May 31, 2007. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by May 

11, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘HSR Rules: 

FTC File No. P989316’’ 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, with two complete copies to 

the following address: Federal Trade 

Commission/Office of the Secretary, 

Room H 135 (Annex J), 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20580. Because paper 

mail in the Washington area and at the 

Commission is subject to delay, please 

consider submitting your comments in 

electronic form, as prescribed below. 

However, if the comment contains any 

material for which confidential 

treatment is requested, it must be filed 

in paper form, and the first page of the 

document must be clearly labeled 

‘‘Confidential.’’ 1 The FTC is requesting 

that any comment filed in paper form be 

sent by courier or overnight service, if 

possible. 

Comments filed in electronic form 

should be submitted by using the 

following weblink: https:// 

secure.commentworks.com/ftc-hsrpra 

(and following the instructions on the 

Web-based form). To ensure that the 

Commission considers an electronic 

comment, you must file it on the Webbased form at the weblink https:// 

secure.commentworks.com/ftc-hsrpra. If 

this notice appears at 

www.regulations.gov, you may also file 

an electronic comment through that 

Web site. The Commission will consider 

all comments that regulations.gov 

forwards to it. 

Comments should also be submitted 

to: Office of Management and Budget, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal 

Trade Commission. Comments should 

be submitted via facsimile to (202) 395–

6974 because U.S. Postal Mail is subject 

to lengthy delays due to heightened 

security precautions. 

The FTC Act and other laws the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. All timely and responsive 

public comments, whether filed in 

paper or electronic form, will be 

considered by the Commission, and will 

be available to the public on the FTC 

Web site, to the extent practicable, at 

http://www.ftc.gov. As a matter of 

discretion, the FTC makes every effort to 

remove home contact information for 

individuals from the public comments it 

receives before placing those comments 

on the FTC Web site. More information, 

including routine uses permitted by the 

Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC’s 

privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ 

ftc/privacy.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed information 

requirements should be addressed to B. 

Michael Verne, Compliance Specialist, 

600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Room 301, 

Washington, DC 20580. Telephone: 

(202) 326–3100. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’), 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520, federal agencies must 

obtain approval from OMB for each 

collection of information they conduct 

or sponsor. On January 12, 2007, the 

FTC sought comment on the 

information collection requirements 

associated with the HSR Rules and the 

corresponding Notification and Report 

Form (OMB Control Number: 3085–

0005). No comments were received. 

Pursuant to the OMB regulations that 

implement the PRA (5 CFR Part 1320), 

the FTC is providing this second 

opportunity for public comment while 

seeking OMB approval to extend the 

existing paperwork clearance for the 

HSR Rules and the corresponding 

Notification and Report Form. All 

comments should be filed as prescribed 

in the ADDRESSES section above, and 

must be received on or before May 11, 

2007. 

Background Information 

Section 7A of the Clayton Act (‘‘Act’’), 

15 U.S.C. 18a, as amended by the HartScott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements 

Act of 1976, Public Law 94–435, 90 Stat. 

1390, requires all persons contemplating 

certain mergers or acquisitions to file 

notification with the Commission and 

the Assistant Attorney General and to 

wait a designated period of time before 

consummating such transactions. 

Congress empowered the Commission, 

with the concurrence of the Assistant 

Attorney General, to require ‘‘that the 

notification * * * be in such form and 

contain such documentary material and 

information * * * as is necessary and 

appropriate’’ to enable the agencies ‘‘to 

determine whether such acquisitions 

may, if consummated, violate the 

antitrust laws.’’ 15 U.S.C. 18a(d). 

Congress similarly granted rulemaking 

authority to, inter alia, ‘‘prescribe such 

other rules as may be necessary and 

appropriate to carry out the purposes of 

this section.’’ Id. 

Pursuant to that section, the 

Commission, with the concurrence of 

the Assistant Attorney General, 

developed the HSR Rules and the 

corresponding Notification and Report 

Form. As discussed below, several 

changes have been made to the HSR 

Rules and the Notification and Report 

Form since FTC staff last sought OMB 

approval for the clearance. 

Burden Statement 

Estimated total annual hours burden: 

156,000 hours (rounded to the nearest 

thousand). 

The following burden estimates are 

primarily based on FTC data concerning 

the number of HSR filings and staff’s 

informal consultations with leading 

HSR counsel. 

In its 2004 PRA submission to OMB 

regarding the HSR Rules and the 

Notification and Report Form, FTC staff 

estimated that there were 21 ‘‘index 

filings’’ under Clayton Act Sections 

7A(c)(6) and 7A(c)(8) that required 2 

hours per filing, and 2,192 non-index 

filings that required an average of 39 


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