78866 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 250 / Wednesday, December 31, 2014 / Notices 

1 In particular, the written request for confidential 

treatment that accompanies the comment must 

include the factual and legal basis for the request, 

and must identify the specific portions of the 

comment to be withheld from the public record. See 

FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice 

President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. CSB Bancshares, Inc. Amended 

Employee Stock Ownership Plan and 

Trust, Ellsworth, Kansas; to acquire 

additional shares of and retain 30.94 

percent of the outstanding voting shares 

of CSB Bancshares, Inc., Ellsworth, 

Kansas. 

In connection with this application; 

CSB Bancshares, Inc. Amended 

Employee Stock Ownership Plan and 

Trust, Ellsworth, Kansas, to acquire 

indirectly, and CSB Bancshares, Inc. 

Ellsworth, Kansas, to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of State 

Bank of Delphos, Delphos, Kansas. 

2. First York Ban Corp., York, 

Nebraska; to acquire 100 percent of the 

voting shares of Loup Valley 

Bancshares, North Loup, Nebraska, and 

thereby indirectly acquire North Loup 

Valley Bank, North Loup, Nebraska. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, December 24, 2014. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30634 Filed 12–30–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

[File No. 141 0088] 

Professional Lighting and Sign 

Management Company of America, 

Inc.; Analysis To Aid Public Comment 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed consent agreement. 

SUMMARY: The consent agreement in this 

matter settles alleged violations of 

federal law prohibiting unfair methods 

of competition. The attached Analysis to 

Aid Public Comment describes both the 

allegations in the draft complaint and 

the terms of the consent order— 

embodied in the consent agreement— 

that would settle these allegations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

plasmaconsent online or on paper, by 

following the instructions in the 

Request for Comment part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Write ‘‘Professional Lighting and 

Sign Management Companies of 

America, Inc.—Consent Agreement; File 

No. 1410088’’ on your comment and file 

your comment online at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

plasmaconsent by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. If 

you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, write ‘‘Professional Lighting and 

Sign Management Companies of 

America, Inc.—Consent Agreement; File 

No. 1410088’’ on your comment and on 

the envelope, and mail it to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC 

20580, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Blank, Bureau of Competition, 

(202–326–2523), 600 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade 

Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and 

FTC Rule 2.34, 16 CFR 2.34, notice is 

hereby given that the above-captioned 

consent agreement containing consent 

order to cease and desist, having been 

filed with and accepted, subject to final 

approval, by the Commission, has been 

placed on the public record for a period 

of thirty (30) days. The following 

Analysis to Aid Public Comment 

describes the terms of the consent 

agreement, and the allegations in the 

complaint. An electronic copy of the 

full text of the consent agreement 

package can be obtained from the FTC 

Home Page (for December 23, 2014), on 

the World Wide Web, at http://

www.ftc.gov/os/actions.shtm. 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. For the Commission to consider 

your comment, we must receive it on or 

before January 22, 2015. Write 

‘‘Professional Lighting and Sign 

Management Companies of America, 

Inc.—Consent Agreement; File No. 

1410088’’ on your comment. Your 

comment—including your name and 

your state—will be placed on the public 

record of this proceeding, including, to 

the extent practicable, on the public 

Commission Web site, at http://

www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. 

As a matter of discretion, the 

Commission tries to remove individuals’ 

home contact information from 

comments before placing them on the 

Commission Web site. 

Because your comment will be made 

public, you are solely responsible for 

making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive personal 

information, like anyone’s Social 

Security number, date of birth, driver’s 

license number or other state 

identification number or foreign country 

equivalent, passport number, financial 

account number, or credit or debit card 

number. You are also solely responsible 

for making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive health 

information, like medical records or 

other individually identifiable health 

information. In addition, do not include 

any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or 

financial information which . . . is 

privileged or confidential,’’ as discussed 

in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 

46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 

4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include 

competitively sensitive information 

such as costs, sales statistics, 

inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, 

manufacturing processes, or customer 

names. 

If you want the Commission to give 

your comment confidential treatment, 

you must file it in paper form, with a 

request for confidential treatment, and 

you have to follow the procedure 

explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 

4.9(c).1 Your comment will be kept 

confidential only if the FTC General 

Counsel, in his or her sole discretion, 

grants your request in accordance with 

the law and the public interest. 

Postal mail addressed to the 

Commission is subject to delay due to 

heightened security screening. As a 

result, we encourage you to submit your 

comments online. To make sure that the 

Commission considers your online 

comment, you must file it at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

plasmaconsent by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. If 

this Notice appears at http://

www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also 

may file a comment through that Web 

site. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Professional Lighting and Sign 

Management Companies of America, 

Inc.—Consent Agreement; File No. 

1410088’’ on your comment and on the 

envelope, and mail your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC 

20580, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), 

Washington, DC 20024. If possible, 

submit your paper comment to the 

Commission by courier or overnight 

service. 

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Visit the Commission Web site at 

http://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice 

and the news release describing it. The 

FTC Act and other laws that the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. The Commission will 

consider all timely and responsive 

public comments that it receives on or 

before January 22, 2015. You can find 

more information, including routine 

uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in 

the Commission’s privacy policy, at 

http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm. 

Analysis of Agreement Containing 

Consent Order To Aid Public Comment 

The Federal Trade Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has accepted, subject to 

final approval, an Agreement 

Containing Consent Order (‘‘Consent 

Agreement’’) from the Professional 

Lighting and Sign Management 

Companies of America, Inc. 

(‘‘PLASMA’’). The Commission’s 

complaint (‘‘Complaint’’) alleges that 

PLASMA, acting as a combination of its 

members and in agreement with at least 

some of its members, restrained 

competition among its members and 

others in violation of Section 5 of the 

Federal Trade Commission Act, as 

amended, 15 U.S.C. 45, by adopting and 

maintaining provisions in its Bylaws 

and Standard Operating Procedures that 

restrict members from competing in the 

territory of another member, that restrict 

price competition, and that restrict 

members from soliciting the customers 

of another member upon termination of 

membership in the association. 

Under the terms of the proposed 

Consent Agreement, PLASMA is 

required to cease and desist from 

allocating territories, restraining price 

competition among its members, and 

restraining its members from soliciting 

customers. It is also required to 

maintain an antitrust compliance 

program and take other steps to further 

the remedial objectives of the proposed 

order. 

The Commission anticipates that the 

competitive issues described in the 

Complaint will be resolved by accepting 

the proposed order, subject to final 

approval, contained in the Consent 

Agreement. The proposed Consent 

Agreement has been placed on the 

public record for 30 days for receipt of 

comments from interested members of 

the public. Comments received during 

this period will become part of the 

public record. After 30 days, the 

Commission will review the Consent 

Agreement again and the comments 

received, and will decide whether it 

should withdraw from the Consent 

Agreement or make final the 

accompanying Decision and Order (‘‘the 

Proposed Order’’). 

The purpose of this Analysis to Aid 

Public Comment is to invite and 

facilitate public comment. It is not 

intended to constitute an official 

interpretation of the proposed Consent 

Agreement and the accompanying 

Proposed Order or in any way to modify 

their terms. 

The Consent Agreement is for 

settlement purposes only and does not 

constitute an admission by PLASMA 

that the law has been violated as alleged 

in the Complaint or that the facts 

alleged in the Complaint, other than 

jurisdictional facts, are true. 

I. The Complaint 

The Complaint makes the following 

allegations. 

A. The Respondent 

PLASMA is a non-profit corporation 

consisting of licensed electricians, with 

approximately 25 member firms across 

the country. PLASMA’s members 

specialize in commercial lighting and 

electrical sign installation and 

maintenance. 

B. The Anticompetitive Conduct 

PLASMA maintains a set of Member 

Bylaws and Standard Operating 

Procedures (‘‘Bylaws’’) applicable to the 

commercial activities of its members, 

and requires its members to comply 

with its Bylaws. PLASMA maintains the 

following provisions in its Bylaws: 

• A provision that prohibits a 

member from providing to a customer 

commercial lighting or sign services in 

the designated territory of another 

member, unless such other member first 

declines to perform the work; 

• A price schedule governing the 

price of any such work performed in the 

designated territory of another member; 

and 

• A provision that bars any member, 

for one year following termination of 

membership, from soliciting or 

competing for the customers (or 

prospective customers) of another 

member. 

PLASMA also established a grievance 

committee to resolve alleged violations 

of the Bylaws, as well as a process 

through which PLASMA could sanction 

violations of the Bylaws. 

II. The Allegations 

The Complaint alleges that PLASMA 

has violated Section 5 of the Federal 

Trade Commission Act by designating a 

territory for each member, and by 

restricting through its Bylaws the ability 

of members to compete in the 

designated territory of another member; 

to compete on price; and to solicit or 

compete for the customers of other 

members. 

The Complaint alleges that the 

purpose, effect, tendency, or capacity of 

the combination, agreement, acts and 

practices of PLASMA has been and is to 

restrain competition unreasonably and 

to injure consumers by discouraging and 

restricting competition among licensed 

electricians. 

III. The Proposed Order 

The Proposed Order has the following 

substantive provisions: Paragraph II 

requires PLASMA to cease and desist 

from restraining its members from 

competing in the territories of other 

members; from restraining price 

competition among members; and from 

restraining members from soliciting the 

customers of other members upon the 

termination of membership in the 

association. The Proposed Order does 

not prohibit PLASMA from requesting 

that its members identify any 

geographic region(s) within which such 

members can quickly respond for 

service. However, PLASMA may not 

place restrictions on the number of 

members that may identify a particular 

geographic region as a ‘‘quick response’’ 

region. 

Paragraph III of the Proposed Order 

requires PLASMA to remove from its 

Web site and organization documents 

any statement inconsistent with the 

Proposed Order. PLASMA must 

distribute a statement describing the 

Consent Agreement (‘‘the Settlement 

Statement’’) to PLASMA’s board of 

directors, officers, employees, and 

members. Paragraph III also requires 

PLASMA to provide all new members 

and all members who receive a 

membership renewal notice with a copy 

of the Settlement Statement. 

Paragraph IV of the Proposed Order 

requires PLASMA to design, maintain, 

and operate an antitrust compliance 

program. PLASMA will have to appoint 

an Antitrust Compliance Officer for the 

duration of the Proposed Order. For a 

period of three years, PLASMA will 

have to provide annual training to its 

board of directors, offices, and 

employees, and conduct a presentation 

at its annual conference that 

summarizes PLASMA’s obligations 

under the Proposed Order and provides 

context-appropriate guidance on 

compliance with the antitrust laws. 

PLASMA must also implement policies 

and procedures to enable persons to ask 

questions about, and report violations 

of, the Proposed Order and the antitrust 

laws confidentially and without fear of 

retaliation, and to discipline its leaders, 

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1 In particular, the written request for confidential 

treatment that accompanies the comment must 

include the factual and legal basis for the request, 

and must identify the specific portions of the 

comment to be withheld from the public record. See 

FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 

employees, and members for failure to 

comply with the Proposed Order. 

Paragraphs V–VII of the Proposed 

order impose certain standard reporting 

and compliance requirements on 

PLASMA. 

The Proposed Order will expire in 20 

years. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Janice Podoll Frankle, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30646 Filed 12–30–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

[File No. 142 3117] 

TXVT Limited Partnership, Doing 

Business as Trophy Nissan; Analysis 

of Proposed Consent Order To Aid 

Public Comment 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed consent agreement. 

SUMMARY: The consent agreement in this 

matter settles alleged violations of 

federal law prohibiting deceptive acts or 

practices. The attached Analysis to Aid 

Public Comment describes both the 

allegations in the draft complaint and 

the terms of the consent order— 

embodied in the consent agreement— 

that would settle these allegations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

tvxtlimitedconsent online or on paper, 

by following the instructions in the 

Request for Comment part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Write ‘‘TXVT Limited 

Partnership, a Texas Limited 

Partnership, d/b/a Trophy Nissan— 

Consent Agreement; File No. 1423117’’ 

on your comment and file your 

comment online at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

tvxtlimitedconsent by following the 

instructions on the Web-based form. If 

you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, write ‘‘TXVT Limited 

Partnership, a Texas Limited 

Partnership, d/b/a Trophy Nissan— 

Consent Agreement; File No. 1423117’’ 

on your comment and on the envelope, 

and mail your comment to the following 

address: Federal Trade Commission, 

Office of the Secretary, 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC– 

5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC 20580, 

or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis 

Gallegos, (214) 979–9383, Southwest 

Region, 1999 Bryan Street, Suite 2150, 

Dallas, TX 75201–6808. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade 

Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and 

FTC Rule 2.34, 16 CFR 2.34, notice is 

hereby given that the above-captioned 

consent agreement containing consent 

order to cease and desist, having been 

filed with and accepted, subject to final 

approval, by the Commission, has been 

placed on the public record for a period 

of thirty (30) days. The following 

Analysis to Aid Public Comment 

describes the terms of the consent 

agreement, and the allegations in the 

complaint. An electronic copy of the 

full text of the consent agreement 

package can be obtained from the FTC 

Home Page (for December 23, 2014), on 

the World Wide Web, at http://

www.ftc.gov/os/actions.shtm. 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. For the Commission to consider 

your comment, we must receive it on or 

before January 22, 2015. Write ‘‘TXVT 

Limited Partnership, a Texas Limited 

Partnership, d/b/a Trophy Nissan— 

Consent Agreement; File No. 1423117’’ 

on your comment. Your comment— 

including your name and your state— 

will be placed on the public record of 

this proceeding, including, to the extent 

practicable, on the public Commission 

Web site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/

publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of 

discretion, the Commission tries to 

remove individuals’ home contact 

information from comments before 

placing them on the Commission Web 

site. 

Because your comment will be made 

public, you are solely responsible for 

making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive personal 

information, like anyone’s Social 

Security number, date of birth, driver’s 

license number or other state 

identification number or foreign country 

equivalent, passport number, financial 

account number, or credit or debit card 

number. You are also solely responsible 

for making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive health 

information, like medical records or 

other individually identifiable health 

information. In addition, do not include 

any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or 

financial information which . . . is 

privileged or confidential,’’ as discussed 

in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 

46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 

4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include 

competitively sensitive information 

such as costs, sales statistics, 

inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, 

manufacturing processes, or customer 

names. 

If you want the Commission to give 

your comment confidential treatment, 

you must file it in paper form, with a 

request for confidential treatment, and 

you have to follow the procedure 

explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 

4.9(c).1 Your comment will be kept 

confidential only if the FTC General 

Counsel, in his or her sole discretion, 

grants your request in accordance with 

the law and the public interest. 

Postal mail addressed to the 

Commission is subject to delay due to 

heightened security screening. As a 

result, we encourage you to submit your 

comments online. To make sure that the 

Commission considers your online 

comment, you must file it at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

tvxtlimitedconsent by following the 

instructions on the Web-based form. If 

this Notice appears at http://

www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also 

may file a comment through that Web 

site. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘TXVT Limited Partnership, a 

Texas Limited Partnership, d/b/a 

Trophy Nissan—Consent Agreement; 

File No. 1423117’’ on your comment 

and on the envelope, and mail your 

comment to the following address: 

Federal Trade Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Suite CC–5610 (Annex D), 

Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your 

comment to the following address: 

Federal Trade Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th 

Street SW., 5th Floor, Suite 5610 

(Annex D), Washington, DC 20024. If 

possible, submit your paper comment to 

the Commission by courier or overnight 

service. 

Visit the Commission Web site at 

http://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice 

and the news release describing it. The 

FTC Act and other laws that the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. The Commission will 

consider all timely and responsive 

public comments that it receives on or 

before January 22, 2015. You can find 

more information, including routine 

uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in 

the Commission’s privacy policy, at 

http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm. 

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