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state commission’s failure to act shall 

notify the Commission as follows: (1) 

File with the Secretary of the 

Commission a detailed petition, 

supported by an affidavit, that states 

with specificity the basis for any claim 

that it has failed to act; and (2) serve the 

state commission and other parties to 

the proceeding on the same day that the 

party serves the petition on the 

Commission. Within 15 days of filing 

the petition, the state commission and 

parties to the proceeding may file a 

response to the petition. In an OMBapproved Public Notice, DA 97–2540, 

released December 4, 1997, the 

Commission set forth procedures for 

filing petitions for preemption pursuant 

to section 252(e)(5). Section 252(e)(5) 

provides that ‘‘if a state commission 

fails to act to carry out its responsibility 

under this section in any proceeding or 

other matter under this section, then the 

Commission shall issue an order 

preempting the state commission’s 

jurisdiction of the proceeding or matter 

within 90 days after being notified (or 

taking notice) of such failure, and shall 

assume the responsibility of the state 

commission under this section with 

respect to the proceeding or matter and 

act for the state commission.’’ All of the 

requirements are used to ensure that 

petitioners have complied with their 

obligations under the Communications 

Act of 1934, as amended. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17369 Filed 8–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–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 public portions of the 

applications listed below, as well as 

other related filings required by the 

Board, if any, are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

This information may also be obtained 

on an expedited basis, upon request, by 

contacting the appropriate Federal 

Reserve Bank and from the Board’s 

Freedom of Information Office at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/ 

request.htm. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

standards enumerated in the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). 

Comments regarding each of these 

applications must be received at the 

Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of 

the Board of Governors, Ann E. 

Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later 

than September 13, 2021. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Jeffrey Imgarten, Assistant Vice 

President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. N.B.C. Bancshares in Pawhuska, 

Inc., Pawhuska, Oklahoma; to acquire 

The American Bank, Wagoner, 

Oklahoma. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Sebastian Astrada, Director, 

Applications) 101 Market Street, San 

Francisco, California 94105–1579: 

1. TriCo Bancshares, Chico, 

California; to acquire Valley Republic 

Bancorp, and thereby indirectly acquire 

Valley Republic Bank, both of 

Bakersfield, California. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 10, 2021. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17391 Filed 8–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (Act) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

applications are set forth in paragraph 7 

of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The public portions of the 

applications listed below, as well as 

other related filings required by the 

Board, if any, are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

This information may also be obtained 

on an expedited basis, upon request, by 

contacting the appropriate Federal 

Reserve Bank and from the Board’s 

Freedom of Information Office at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/ 

request.htm. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

standards enumerated in paragraph 7 of 

the Act. 

Comments regarding each of these 

applications must be received at the 

Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of 

the Board of Governors, Ann E. 

Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later 

than August 30, 2021. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 

(Karen Smith, Director, Applications) 

2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 

75201–2272: 

1. Security State Bank & Trust, 

Fredericksburg, Texas, as co-trustee of 

the Kathleen Keller 2016 Trust, Blanco 

County, Texas, and of the Kay Durst 

Family 2016 Trust, Gillespie County, 

Texas; to retain voting shares of 

Security Holding Company, and thereby 

indirectly retain voting shares of 

Security State Bank & Trust, both of 

Fredericksburg, Texas. 

Additionally, the Elliott Gage Hayne 

GST Trust, Elliott Gage Hayne, as 

trustee, the James L. Hayne, Jr. GST 

Trust, James L. Hayne, Jr., as trustee, the 

Nancy Elliott Hayne GST Trust, Nancy 

Elliott Hayne, as trustee, and the Walter 

Catto Hayne GST Trust, Walter Catto 

Hayne, as trustee, all of San Antonio, 

Texas; to join the Bonnen/Durst/Hayne/ 

Igler/Keller/Kemp/LeJeune/Loth control 

group, a group acting in concert, to 

retain voting shares of Security Holding 

Company, and thereby indirectly retain 

voting shares of Security State Bank & 

Trust. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 10, 2021. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17390 Filed 8–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Information Collection 

Renewal; Comment Request for OGE 

Form 278e Executive Branch 

Personnel Public Financial Disclosure 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics 

(OGE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: After publication of this 

second round notice, the Office of 

Government Ethics (OGE) intends to 


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request that the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) renew its approval 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act for 

an existing information collection, 

entitled the OGE Form 278e Executive 

Branch Personnel Public Financial 

Disclosure Report. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Grant Anderson at the U.S. Office of 

Government Ethics; telephone: 202– 

482–9318; TTY: 800–877–8339; Email: 

Grant.Anderson@oge.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Executive Branch Personnel 

Public Financial Disclosure Report. 

Agency Form Number: OGE Form 

278e. 

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 

102 of the Ethics in Government Act, 5 

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

Representative Louise McIntosh 

Slaughter Stop Trading on 

Congressional Knowledge Act (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 Integrity e-filing 

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. OGE 

also continues to maintain an Excel 

version of the form and a 508 compliant 

PDF version on its website. 

A Federal Register Notice with a 60- 

day comment period soliciting 

comments on this information 

collection was published on June 2, 

2021 (86 FR 29583). OGE received four 

responses to that notice, two of which 

contained several suggestions. 

Several of the suggestions addressed 

the reporting requirements, for example 

eliminating the requirement to report 

diversified mutual funds. The financial 

disclosure requirements are dictated by 

the Ethics in Government Act (EIGA), 5 

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

Therefore, these suggested changes 

could not be made without revisions to 

the EIGA. Several of the suggestions 

proposed user experience changes to the 

Integrity system. There is a pre-existing 

process to collect, analyze, and 

prioritize proposed changes to the 

Integrity system through the Integrity 

Advisory Council (IAC). Agency 

employees should forward suggestions 

concerning Integrity to their agency’s 

Integrity administrator or an agency 

ethics official who can present the 

suggestions for IAC consideration. 

Two suggestions involved the clarity 

of the form’s instructions. One of these 

suggestions was considered, but it was 

determined that making the change 

would actually decrease the overall 

clarity of the instructions. The other 

suggestion made a valid point that a 

particular instruction can be confusing 

to filers, but offered no specific 

alternative. Without a specific 

alternative to consider, OGE is unable to 

make this change as part of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act renewal 

process. OGE intends to study the issue 

for a future revision. 

Finally, several suggestions made by 

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in 

Washington (CREW) focused on 

requiring additional personal 

information from filers, which would 

increase the burden of the information 

collection and may implicate privacy 

concerns. One CREW proposal 

suggested requiring more information 

about filers’ assets. That idea was 

previously considered and OGE 

determined that the resulting burden to 

the filer would be too high. Some of 

CREW’s suggestions are not directly 

related to the purpose of the form and/ 

or would require a legislative or 

regulatory change. To the extent that the 

proposed changes may assist the 

government in identifying potential 

conflicts of interest, they will be 

considered for a future iteration of the 

form. 

OMB Control Number: 3209–0001. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

Type of Review Request: Regular. 

Affected Public: 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: 3,196. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

31,960 hours. 

Request for Comments: OGE is 

publishing this second round notice of 

its intent to request paperwork 

clearance renewal for OGE Form 278e. 

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). The 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Approved: August 10, 2021. 

Emory Rounds, 

Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17330 Filed 8–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6345–03–P 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Information Collection 

Renewal; Comment Request for OGE 

Form 450 Executive Branch 

Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics 

(OGE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: After publication of this 

second round notice, the Office of 

Government Ethics (OGE) plans to 

request that the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) renew its approval 


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