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Bank, Venice, Florida; and NBD Bank,

Elkhart, Indiana. Banc One and Banc

One DE also have requested the Board’s

approval to hold and exercise options to

purchase up to 19.9 percent of the

voting shares of FCNBD, if certain

events occur. Banc One and Banc One

DE may form one or more intermediate

bank holding companies.

In connection with the proposed

transaction, Banc One and Banc One DE

also have provided notice to acquire all

of the nonbanking subsidiaries of

FCNBD and to engage, directly or

indirectly, in all of the nonbanking

activities that FCNBD is currently

authorized by the Board to conduct. The

nonbanking activities, and the

subsidiaries of FCNBD engaged in these

activities, are described in the notice

filed by Banc One and Banc One DE

with the Board. The activities and

subsidiaries include the following:

extending credit and servicing loans

through First Chicago Capital

Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, and other

subsidiaries, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(1)

of Regulation Y; activities related to

extending credit through First Chicago

NBD Real Estate Services, Inc.,

Indianapolis, Indiana, and other

companies, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(2) of

Regulation Y; engaging in leasing

personal or real property through FNW

Capital, Inc., Mt. Prospect, Illinois, and

other companies, pursuant to §

225.28(b)(3) of Regulation Y; performing

trust company functions through First

Chicago Trust Company of New York,

New York, New York, pursuant to §

225.28(b)(5) of Regulation Y; providing

financial and investment advisory

services through First Chicago Capital

Markets, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

(‘‘FCCM’’), and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(6) of Regulation

Y; providing agency transactional

services for customer investments

through FCCM and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(7) of Regulation

Y; engaging in investment transactions

as principal through FCCM and other

companies, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(8) of

Regulation Y; engaging in insurance

agency and underwriting activities

through NBD Insurance Agency, Inc.,

Troy, Michigan, and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(11) of

Regulation Y; engaging in community

development activities through various

subsidiaries, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(12)

of Regulation Y; and providing data

processing services through various

subsidiaries, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(14)

of Regulation Y. In addition, Banc One

and Banc One DE propose to engage in

certain other activities that the Board

has approved by order, including

engaging through FCCM in underwriting

and dealing, to a limited extent, in all

types of debt and equity securities

(other than ownership interests in openend investment companies). Banc One

and Banc One DE propose to engage in

these activities in accordance with

previous Board decisions.

Under this proposal, Banc One and

Banc One DE would retain all of Banc

One’s subsidiary banks, including Bank

One, NA, Columbus, Ohio; Bank One

Trust Company, NA, Columbus, Ohio;

Bank One, Arizona, NA, Phoenix,

Arizona; Bank One, Colorado, NA,

Denver, Colorado; Bank One, Illinois,

NA, Springfield, Illinois; Bank One,

Indiana, NA, Indianapolis, Indiana;

Bank One, Oklahoma, NA, Oklahoma

City, Oklahoma; Bank One, Louisiana,

NA, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Bank One,

Kentucky, NA, Louisville, Kentucky;

Bank One, Texas, NA, Dallas, Texas;

Bank One, Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

Wisconsin; Bank One, West Virginia,

NA, Huntington, West Virginia; Bank

One, Utah, NA, Salt Lake City, Utah;

and Bank One, Wheeling Steubenville,

NA, Wheeling, West Virginia. Pending

consummation of the proposed

acquisition of First Commerce

Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana

(‘‘First Commerce’’), by Banc One, Banc

One and Banc One DE also would retain

the bank and nonbank subsidiaries of

First Commerce, including First

National Bank of Commerce, New

Orleans; City National Bank of Baton

Rouge, Baton Rouge; Rapides Bank &

Trust Company in Alexandria,

Alexandria; The First National Bank of

Lafayette, Lafayette; The First National

Bank of Lake Charles, Lake Charles; and

Central Bank, Monroe, all in Louisiana.

Banc One and Banc One DE would

continue to engage in all of the

nonbanking activities in which Banc

One is currently authorized by the

Board to conduct. The nonbanking

activities and the companies conducting

these activities are described in the

notice filed with the Board. These

subsidiaries and activities include:

extending credit and servicing loans

through Finance One Corporation,

Columbus, Ohio, and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation

Y; activities related to extending credit

through Banc One Mortgage Capital

Markets, LLC, Dallas, Texas, and other

companies, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(2) of

Regulation Y; leasing personal or real

property through BOI Leasing

Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, and

other companies, pursuant to §

225.28(b)(3) of Regulation Y; operating

an industrial bank through First USA

Financial Services, Inc., Salt Lake City,

Utah, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(4)(i) of

Regulation Y; performing trust company

functions through Liberty Trust

Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(5) of Regulation

Y; providing financial and investment

advisory services through Banc One

Capital Markets, Inc., Columbus, Ohio

(‘‘BOCM’’), and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(6) of Regulation

Y; engaging in agency transactional

services for customer investments

through BOCM and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(7) of Regulation

Y; engaging in investment transactions

as principal through BOCM and other

companies, pursuant to § 225.28(b)(8) of

Regulation Y; engaging insurance

agency and underwriting activities

through various companies, pursuant to

§ 225.28(b)(11) of Regulation Y;

engaging in community development

activities through various companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(12) of

Regulation Y; engaging in data

processing activities through

Paymentech Merchant Services, Inc.,

Dallas, Texas, and other companies,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(14) of

Regulation Y. In addition, Banc One and

Banc One (DE) propose to engage in

certain other activities that the Board

has approved by order, including

underwriting and dealing, to a limited

extent, in all types of debt and equity

securities (other than ownership

interests in open-end investment

companies), in accordance with

previous Board decisions.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 9, 1998.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–15776 Filed 6–12–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

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
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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.

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 July 10, 1998.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III,

Assistant Vice President) 701 East Byrd

Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:

1. First Region Bancshares, Inc.,

Richlands, Virginia; to become a bank

holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of First

Sentinel Bank, Richlands, Virginia.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-

2034:

1. Mercantile Bancorporation Inc., St.

Louis, Missouri, and its wholly owned

subsidiary, Ameribanc, Inc., St. Louis,

Missouri; to acquire and thereby merge

with Financial Services Corporation of

the Midwest, Rock Island, Illinois, and

thereby indirectly acquire The Rock

Island Bank, N.A., Bettendorf, Iowa.

C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (D. Michael Manies, Assistant Vice

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198-0001:

1. Financial Bancshares, Inc., Holton,

Kansas; to acquire 18.18 percent of the

voting shares of Arizona Bancshares,

Inc., Flagstaff, Arizona, and thereby

indirectly acquire First State Bank,

Flagstaff, Arizona, a de novo bank.

Comments regarding this application

must be received not later than July 6,

1998.

2. Gold Banc Corporation, Inc.,

Leawood, Kansas; to acquire 100

percent of the voting shares of

Northwest Bancshares, Inc., Colby,

Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire

Peoples State Bank, Colby, Kansas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 10, 1998.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–15841 Filed 6–12–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

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.

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 June 30, 1998.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-

2034:

1. The Peoples Bancshares, Inc.,

Sardis, Tennessee; to engage in the

leasing of personal or real property,

pursuant to § 225.28(b)(3) of Regulation

Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 10, 1998.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–15842 Filed 6–12–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Announcement Number 98088]

Notice of Availability of Funds for

Fiscal Year 1998; Resource Center for

Unintentional Injury Prevention Among

Older Americans

Introduction

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 1998

funds for a cooperative agreement to

establish a Resource Center for

Unintentional Injury Prevention Among

Older Americans.

CDC is committed to achieving the

health promotion and disease

prevention objectives of ‘‘Healthy

People 2000,’’ a national activity to

reduce morbidity and mortality and

improve the quality of life. This

announcement is related to the priority

area of Unintentional Injuries. (For

ordering copies of ‘‘Healthy People

2000’’ and ‘‘Major Causes of

Unintentional Injuries Among Older

Persons’’ [1996], see the Section WHERE

TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION.)

Authority

This program is authorized under

sections 301, 317, and 391–394 [42

U.S.C. 241, 247b, and 280b–280b–3] of

the Public Health Service Act as

amended.

Smoke-Free Workplace

CDC strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and to promote the non-use

of all tobacco products, and Public Law

103–227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994,

prohibits smoking in certain facilities

that receive Federal funds in which

education, library, day care, health care,

and early childhood development

services are provided to children.

Eligible Applicants

Applications may be submitted by

public and private non-profit

organizations and by governments and

their agencies. Thus, universities,

colleges, research institutions, hospitals,

other public and private nonprofit

organizations, State and local

governments or their bona fide agents,

and federally recognized Indian tribal

governments, Indian tribes, or Indian

tribal organizations are eligible to apply.

Note: Effective January 1, 1996, Public Law

104–65 states that an organization described