66248 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 214 / Friday, November 3, 2000 / Notices

Summary reports, status reports, and

reports of actions taken pursuant to

authority delegated by the Board of

Directors.

Discussion Agenda:

Memorandum re: BIF Assessment

Rates for the First Semiannual

Assessment Period of 2001.

Memorandum re: SAIF Assessment

Rates for the First Semiannual

Assessment Period of 2001.

The meeting will be held in the Board

Room on the sixth floor of the FDIC

Building located at 550—17th Street,

NW., Washington, DC.

The FDIC will provide attendees with

auxiliary aids (e.g., sign language

interpretation) required for this meeting.

Those attendees needing such assistance

should call (202) 416–2089 (Voice);

(202)416–2007 (TTY), to make necessary

arrangements. Requests for further

information concerning the meeting

may be directed to Mr. Robert E.

Feldman, Executive Secretary of the

Corporation, at (202)898–6757.

Dated: October 31, 2000

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Robert E. Feldman,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–28308 Filed 10–31–00; 4:07 pm]

BILLING CODE 6714–01–M

FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency

Management Agency has submitted the

following proposed information

collection to the Office of Management

and Budget for review and clearance in

accordance with the requirements of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3507).

Title: Request for Federal Assistance

Form (How to Process Mission

Assignments).

Type of Information Collection:

Extension of a currently approved

collection.

OMB Number: 3067–0278.

Abstract: Information on the Request

for Federal Assistance (RFA) form is

required to document requests for

Federal assistance and any resulting

mission assignments to other Federal

agencies. Other methods used to obtain

the request portion of the RFA include

internal existing State forms. No

alternative exists to obligate a mission

assignment in FEMA’s official

integrated financial management

system.

Affected Public: Federal Government,

State, Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 56.

Estimated Time per Respondent: 20

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 182 hours.

Frequency of Response: After a

disaster.

COMMENTS: Interested persons are

invited to submit written comments on

the proposed information collection to

the Desk Officer for the Federal

Emergency Management Agency, Office

of Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget,

Washington, DC 20503 within 30 days

of the date of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

should be made to Muriel B. Anderson,

Chief, Records Management Branch,

Program Services Division, Operations

Support Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW,

Room 316, Washington, DC 20472,

telephone number (202) 646–2625, FAX

number (202) 646–3524, or e-mail

address: muriel.anderson@fema.gov.

Mike Bozzelli,

Acting Director, Program Services Division,

Operations Support Directorate.

[FR Doc. 00–28259 Filed 11–2–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6718–01–P

FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB review;

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency

Management Agency has submitted the

following proposed information

collection to the Office of Management

and Budget for review and clearance in

accordance with the requirements of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3507).

Title: EMI Independent Study Course

Enrollment Application.

Type of Information Collection:

Revision of a currently approved

collection.

OMB Number: 3067–0277.

Abstract: FEMA Form 95–23 is used

to provide independent study course

materials to students that enroll in the

Independent Study Program. These

courses are offered in residence at the

Emergency Management Institute (EMI),

through State Emergency Management

Agencies. The Independent Study

Program provides valuable training to

emergency management personnel and

to the general citizenry of the United

States, without having to attend a

resident course at EMI, or at a statesponsored course.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households.

Number of Respondents: 90,000.

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1

minute.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 1500.

Frequency of Response: On Occasion.

COMMENTS: Interested persons are

invited to submit written comments on

the proposed information collection to

the Desk Officer for the Federal

Emergency Management Agency, Office

of Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget,

Washington, DC 20503 within 30 days

of the date of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

should be made to Muriel B. Anderson,

Chief, Records Management Branch,

Program Services Division, Operations

Support Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW,

Room 316, Washington, DC 20472,

telephone number (202) 646–2625, FAX

number (202) 646–3524, or e-mail

address: muriel.anderson@fema.gov.

Mike Bozzelli,

Acting Director, Program Services Division,

Operations Support Directorate.

[FR Doc. 00–28260 Filed 11–2–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6718–01–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

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1ACH Vision 2000 Task Force Recommendations,

NACHA, 1997; The Role of the Federal Reserve and

the Banking Industry in the Retail Electronic

Payments Systems of the Future, The Bankers

Roundtable, April 1998.

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 November 27,

2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice President)

104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta,

Georgia 30303–2713:

1. Capital City Bank Group, Inc.,

Tallahassee, Florida; to acquire 20.75

percent of the voting shares of First

Peoples Bankshares, Inc., Pine

Mountain, Georgia, and thereby

indirectly acquire voting shares of First

Peoples Bank, Pine Mountain, Georgia.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

(Phillip Jackson, Applications Officer)

230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago,

Illinois 60690–1414:

1. Northwest Suburban Bancorp, Inc.,

Mount Prospect, Illinois; to acquire 100

percent of the voting shares of Village

Bank and Trust, North Barrington,

Illinois.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, October 30, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–28229 Filed 11–2–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

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 November 17, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

(Phillip Jackson, Applications Officer)

230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago,

Illinois 60690–1414:

1. Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc.,

Melrose Park, Illinois; to acquire

through its subsidiary, Midwest

Financial and Investment Services, Inc.,

Elmwood Park, Illinois, Service 1st

Financial Corporation, Elmwood Park,

Illinois, and thereby engage in securities

brokerage activities, pursuant to

§ 225.28(b)(7)(i) of Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, October 30, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–28230 Filed 11–2–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

[Docket No. R–1037]

Federal Reserve ACH Deposit

Deadlines and Pricing Practices for

Transactions Involving Private-Sector

ACH Operators

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the

Federal Reserve System.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Board has approved a

new approach to pricing automated

clearing house transactions that the

Federal Reserve Banks exchange with

intermediaries that are defined as

operators under the operating rules of

the National Automated Clearing House

Association. The Reserve Banks will

initiate discussions with the privatesector ACH operators (PSOs) to

negotiate the structure and level of fees

that will be charged by the Reserve

Banks for processing interoperator

transactions as well as those fees that

the Reserve Banks will pay the PSOs.

The Reserve Banks will work

collaboratively with the PSOs to

establish deposit deadlines by which

they would exchange interoperator

transactions with each other and to

address other operational issues. To

permit time for necessary software

modifications, the new interoperator

deposit deadlines will be implemented

by the Reserve Banks no later than June

2001 while the new fees will be

implemented no later than September

2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack

K. Walton II, Manager, Retail Payments

Section (202/452–2660); Michele Braun,

Project Leader, Retail Payments Section

(202/452–2819); or Jeffrey S. H.

Yeganeh, Senior Financial Services

Analyst, Retail Payments Section,

Division of Reserve Bank Operations

and Payment Systems (202/728–5801);

for the hearing impaired only, contact

Janice Simms, Telecommunication

Device for the Deaf (202/872–4984).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Federal Reserve Banks are

collectively the nation’s largest

automated clearing house (ACH)

operator and process more than 80

percent of commercial interbank ACH

transactions. PSOs process the

remaining transactions and typically

provide services, including processing

and settling ACH transactions, similar to

those offered by the Reserve Banks.

PSOs and the Reserve Banks rely on

each other for the processing of some

transactions in which either the

originating depository financial

institution (ODFI) or receiving

depository financial institution (RDFI) is

not their customer. These interoperator

transactions are settled by the Reserve

Banks.

Some industry representatives have

expressed concerns that the Reserve

Banks’ price and service level policies

have created barriers to open and

vigorous competition among ACH

operators because the policies do not

recognize the role played by operators

in the ACH system.1 Specifically, these

representatives have maintained that the

Reserve Banks’ deposit deadlines and