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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 July 26, 

2018. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice 

President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. Robert Claypool, Maysville, 

Missouri, and Mary Claypool, Pella, 

Iowa; to acquire voting shares of 

Fairport Bancshares, Inc., Maysville, 

Missouri, and thereby indirectly acquire 

The Bank of Fairport, Maysville, 

Missouri. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 6, 2018. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14846 Filed 7–10–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 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 will also 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. 

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 6, 2018. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. First Midwest Bancorp, Inc., 

Chicago, Illinois; to acquire 100 percent 

of Northern States Financial 

Corporation and thereby indirectly 

acquire NorStates Bank, both of 

Waukegan, Illinois. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of New York 

(Ivan Hurwitz, Vice President) 33 

Liberty Street, New York, New York 

10045–0001. Comments can also be sent 

electronically to Comments.applications

@ny.frb.org: 

1. MB Mutual Holding Company and 

MB Bancorp, Inc., both of Wall 

Township, New Jersey; to merge with 

Metuchen MHC and Metuchen Bancorp, 

Inc., both of Metuchen, New Jersey and 

thereby indirectly acquire Metuchen 

Savings Bank, Metuchen. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 6, 2018. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14847 Filed 7–10–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request for a Modified OGE 

Form 278e Executive Branch 

Personnel Public Financial Disclosure 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics 

(OGE). 

ACTION: Notice of request for agency and 

public comments. 

SUMMARY: After this first round notice 

and public comment period, the Office 

of Government Ethics (OGE) intends to 

submit a modified OGE Form 278e 

Executive Branch Personnel Public 

Financial Disclosure Report to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments by the public 

and the agencies on this proposed 

extension are invited and must be 

received on or before September 10, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted to OGE, by any of the 

following methods: 

Email: usoge@oge.gov (Include 

reference to ‘‘OGE Form 278e 

paperwork comment’’ in the subject line 

of the message.) 

FAX: 202–482–9237, Attn: Sara 

Nekou. 

Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of 

Government Ethics, 1201 New York 

Avenue NW, Suite 500, Attention: Sara 

Nekou, Assistant Counsel, Washington, 

DC 20005–3917. 

Instructions: Comments may be 

posted on OGE’s website, www.oge.gov. 

Sensitive personal information, such as 

account numbers or Social Security 

numbers, should not be included. 

Comments generally will not be edited 

to remove any identifying or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara 

Nekou at the U.S. Office of Government 

Ethics; telephone: 202–482–9229; TTY: 

800–877–8339; FAX: 202–482–9237; 

Email: Snekou@oge.gov. An electronic 

copy of the OGE Form 278e is available 

in the Forms Library section of OGE’s 

website at http://www.oge.gov. A paper 

copy may also be obtained, without 

charge, by contacting Ms. Nekou. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Executive Branch Personnel 

Public Financial Disclosure Report. 

Form Number: OGE Form 278e. 

OMB Control Number: 3209–0001. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection. 

Type of Review Request: Regular. 

Respondents: Private citizen 

Presidential nominees to executive 

branch positions subject to Senate 

confirmation; other private citizens who 

are potential (incoming) Federal 

employees whose positions are 

designated for public disclosure filing; 

those who file termination reports from 

such positions after their Government 

service ends; and Presidential and VicePresidential candidates. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 4,821. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

48,210 hours. 

Abstract: The OGE Form 278 collects 

information from certain officers and 

high-level employees in the executive 

branch for conflicts of interest review 

and public disclosure. The form is also 

completed by individuals who are 

nominated by the President for highlevel executive branch positions 

requiring Senate confirmation and 

individuals entering into and departing 

from other public reporting positions in 

the executive branch. The financial 

information collected relates to: Assets 

and income; transactions; gifts, 

reimbursements and travel expenses; 

liabilities; agreements or arrangements; 

outside positions; and compensation 

over $5,000 paid by a source—all 

subject to various reporting thresholds 

and exclusions. The information is 

collected in accordance with section 


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102 of the Ethics in Government Act, 5 

U.S.C. app. sec. 102, as amended by the 

Stop Trading on Congressional 

Knowledge Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112– 

105) (STOCK Act) and OGE’s 

implementing financial disclosure 

regulations at 5 CFR part 2634. 

In 2013, OGE sought and received 

approval for the OGE Form 278e, an 

electronic version of the Form 278, 

implemented pursuant to the e-filing 

system mandated under section 11(b) of 

the STOCK Act. The OGE Form 278e 

collects the same information as the 

OGE Form 278. In 2014, OGE sought 

and received approval to incorporate the 

OGE Form 278e into its new Integrity efiling application. Integrity has been in 

use since January 1, 2015, and OGE now 

requires filers to use a version of the 

OGE Form 278e rather than the old OGE 

Form 278. The version of the Form 278e 

that is produced by Integrity is a 

streamlined output report format that 

presents only the filer’s inputs in given 

categories and does not report other 

categories not selected by the filer. 

On October 5, 2016, OGE published a 

proposed rule for amending 5 CFR part 

2634. See 81 FR 69204–69238 (October 

5, 2016). The proposed modifications to 

the OGE Form 278e revise the 

instructions to reflect the changes to the 

financial disclosure regulation, if 

adopted as final. Specifically, OGE 

proposes to: Revise the reporting period 

for termination reports to include the 

entire preceding calendar year if a 

required annual report has not been 

filed; revise the income disclosure 

requirement to include only received 

income; revise the ‘‘widely diversified’’ 

criterion for purposes of determining 

whether a fund qualifies as an 

‘‘excepted investment fund;’’ add a new 

feature (checkbox) for purposes of 

managing early termination report filing 

on the Integrity version of the Form 

278e; clarify the Definition section of 

Part 2; clarify when a source of 

compensation need not be disclosed and 

the method for disclosing the existence 

of such sources; and eliminate the 

disclosure of transactions that occurred 

before the reporting individual became 

subject to the public financial disclosure 

requirements. 

OGE is also proposing to update the 

Privacy Act statement in accordance 

with changes to the applicable system of 

records and to make certain minor 

formatting changes and corrections to 

the instructions and one of the data 

entry fields. 

Request for Comments: Agency and 

public comment is invited specifically 

on the need for and practical utility of 

this information collection, the accuracy 

of OGE’s burden estimate, the 

enhancement of quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collected, and 

the minimization of burden (including 

the use of information technology). 

Comments received in response to this 

notice will be summarized for, and may 

be included with, the OGE request for 

extension of OMB paperwork approval. 

The comments will also become a 

matter of public record. 

Approved: July 3, 2018. 

David Apol, 

Acting Director and General Counsel, Office 

of Government Ethics. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14840 Filed 7–10–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6345–03–P 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request for a Modified OGE 

Form 450 Executive Branch 

Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics 

(OGE). 

ACTION: Notice of request for agency and 

public comments. 

SUMMARY: After this first round notice 

and public comment period, the Office 

of Government Ethics (OGE) plans to 

submit a modified OGE Form 450 

Executive Branch Confidential Financial 

Disclosure Report to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments by the public 

and agencies on this proposed extension 

are invited and must be received by 

September 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted to OGE, by any of the 

following methods: 

Email: usoge@oge.gov (Include 

reference to ‘‘OGE Form 450 paperwork 

comment’’ in the subject line of the 

message.) 

FAX: 202–482–9237, Attn: Sara 

Nekou. 

Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of 

Government Ethics, 1201 New York 

Avenue NW, Suite 500, Attention: Sara 

Nekou, Assistant Counsel, Washington, 

DC 20005–3917. 

Instructions: Comments may be 

posted on OGE’s website, https://

www.oge.gov. Sensitive personal 

information, such as account numbers 

or Social Security numbers, should not 

be included. Comments generally will 

not be edited to remove any identifying 

or contact information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara 

Nekou at the U.S. Office of Government 

Ethics; telephone: 202–482–9229; TTY: 

800–877–8339; FAX: 202–482–9237; 

Email: snekou@oge.gov. An electronic 

copy of the OGE Form 450 is available 

in the Forms Library section of OGE’s 

website at https://www.oge.gov. A paper 

copy may also be obtained, without 

charge, by contacting Ms. Nekou. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Executive Branch Confidential 

Financial Disclosure Report. 

Agency Form Number: OGE Form 

450. 

OMB Control Number: 3209–0006. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection. 

Type of Review Request: Regular. 

Respondents: Prospective 

Government employees, including 

special Government employees, whose 

positions are designated for confidential 

disclosure filing and whose agencies 

require that they file new entrant 

confidential disclosure reports prior to 

assuming Government responsibilities. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 24,640. 

Estimated Time per Response: 3 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

73,920 hours. 

Abstract: The OGE Form 450 collects 

information from covered department 

and agency employees as required 

under OGE’s executive branch wide 

regulatory provisions in subpart I of 5 

CFR part 2634. The basis for the OGE 

reporting regulation is section 201(d) of 

Executive Order 12674 of April 12, 1989 

(as modified by Executive Order 12731 

of October 17, 1990) and section 107(a) 

of the Ethics in Government Act, 5 

U.S.C. app. sec. 107(a). OGE proposes 

several modifications to the form. 

On October 5, 2016, OGE published a 

proposed rule for amending 5 CFR part 

2634. See 81 FR 69204–69238 (October 

5, 2016). The proposed modifications to 

the OGE Form 450 revise the 

instructions to reflect the changes to the 

financial disclosure regulation, if 

adopted as final. Specifically, OGE 

proposes to: Change the reporting 

periods for each part completed by new 

entrants; change the income disclosure 

threshold to $1,000 of received income; 

eliminate the disclosure of diversified 

funds held within an employee benefit 

plan; clarify that the disclosure 

requirement for agreements and 

arrangements includes those with a 

current employer; eliminate the 

disclosure of continued participation in 

a defined contribution plan to which an 

employer is no longer making 

contributions; and combine gifts and 

travel reimbursement into a single 


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