[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 179 (Friday, September 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 54746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18467]


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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 October 13, 2005.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. SCBT Financial Corporation, Columbia, South Carolina, to acquire 
100% of the voting shares of Sun Bancshares, Inc., Murrells Inlet, 
South Carolina, and thereby indirectly acquire SunBank, National 
Association, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Capitol Bancorp, Ltd., Lansing, Michigan, to acquire 100 percet 
of the voting shares of Capitol Development Bancorp Limited III, 
Lansing, Michigan, and thereby indirectly acquire Bank of Belleville 
(in organization), Belleville, Illinois. In connection with this 
application Capitol Development Bancorp Limited III has applied to 
become a bank holding company.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. FC Holdings, Inc., Houston, Texas, and FC Holdings of Delaware, 
Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares 
of Lake Area National Bank, Trinity, Texas.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Andre Anderson, Vice President) 
1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303:
    1. Omni Bancshares, Inc., Metairie, Louisiana, to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Omni Bank, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (in 
organization). Comments on this application must be received by 
September 29, 2005.
    2. West Alabama Capital Corp., Reform, Alabama, to merge with West 
Alabama Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire Merchants and 
Farmers Bank, both of Millport, Alabama.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 13, 
2005.

Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05-18467 Filed 9-15-05; 8:45 am]
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