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Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank
Holding Companies
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank
holding company. The factors that are
considered in acting on the notices are
set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12
U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the office of the Board of Governors.
Interested persons may express their
views in writing to the Reserve Bank
indicated for that notice or to the offices
of the Board of Governors. Comments
must be received not later than July 9,
2010.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E.
Ann Worthy, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201–
2272:
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1. Richard Earl Williams, Jr.,
Cameron, Texas, individually and as
Trustee of the Richard E. Williams
Exempt Trust; Debora Evans, Belton,
Texas, individually and as Trustee of
the Debora Evans Exempt Trust; Richard
Earl Williams, Jr. and Debora Evans as
co–Trustees of (i) the Williams Family
Exempt Trust, (ii) the Victoria Grace
Williams Special Trust, (iii) the Thomas
Joseph Evans 2002 Trust and (iv) the
Elizabeth Ashton Williams 2002 Trust,
all of Cameron, Texas; and Richard E.
Williams, Jr., Debora Evans and the
above named trusts, collectively (the
‘‘Williams Family Group’’), to retain
voting shares of Cameron Financial
Corporation and thereby indirectly
retain voting shares of Classic Bank,
N.A., both of Cameron, Texas.
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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 19, 2010.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
(Nadine Wallman, Vice President) 1455
East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio
44101–2566:
1. Standard Financial Corp.,
Murrysville, Pennsylvania; to become a
bank holding company by acquiring 100
percent of the voting shares of Standard
Bank, PaSB, Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, June 21, 2010.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2010–15284 Filed 6–23–10; 8:45 am]
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, June 21, 2010.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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Payment System Risk Policy; Daylight
Overdraft Posting Rules
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
ACTION: Announcement.
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 applications 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/.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
SUMMARY: As part of its Payment System
Risk Policy, the Board is announcing
posting rules for a new same-day
automated clearing house (ACH)
service. The Reserve Banks’ FedACH
SameDay service, which will include
certain debit transactions, will be
available only to customers who elect to
participate.
DATES: Effective Date: August 2, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Susan Foley, Deputy Associate Director
(202–452–3596), Holly Kirkpatrick,
Senior Financial Services Analyst,
Payment System Risk (202–452–2796),
or Jennifer Davidson, Senior Financial
Services Analyst, Retail Payments (202–
452–2446), Division of Reserve Bank
Operations and Payment Systems, Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System; for users of
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
(‘‘TDD’’) only, contact (202) 263–4869.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Reserve Banks will be offering an
opt-in, same-day settlement service for
certain ACH debit payments through the
FedACH service effective August 2,
2010.1 FedACH customers may opt-in to
1 For additional information on the FedACH
SameDay service, please contact your Federal
Reserve Account Executive or visit https://
www.frbservices.org.
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this service by completing a
participation agreement. As part of the
agreement, depository institutions may
choose the extent of their participation:
They may send only, receive only, or
send and receive same-day debit items.
This service will be limited to
transactions arising from consumer
checks converted to ACH and consumer
debit transfers initiated over the Internet
and phone.2
Institutions that choose to use this
service should be aware of the posting
times and associated settlement times
established for same-day forward and
return transfers, as these times could
influence how participating institutions
manage their Federal Reserve accounts,
especially late in the day.3 When the
Reserve Banks offer new financial
services, the Board determines when the
payments will post to an institution’s
Federal Reserve account so it may
manage and appropriately fund its
account.4 The following table outlines
the transmission deadlines and
associated posting times for the FedACH
SameDay service.5
FedACH SameDay opt-in service
Transmission deadline to FedACH
Forward same-day debit transfers ................................................................................
Return same-day debit transfers ...................................................................................
2 p.m .........................................................
4:30 p.m ....................................................
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In considering these transmission
deadlines and posting times, the Board
sought to provide receiving institutions
with enough time to process same-day
transactions. Depository institutions
may send a same-day forward item to
FedACH until 2 p.m. FedACH will
process these forward items and send
them to the receiving institutions by
approximately 4 p.m., and these items
will settle the same day at 5 p.m. The
Board also wanted to ensure that
institutions have sufficient time to
manage their Federal Reserve account if
they receive a returned debit transfer
late in the day. Depository institutions
will have until 4:30 p.m. to return sameday debit items for same-day
settlement.6 FedACH will process and
send the returned items to the
originating institutions by
approximately 5 p.m., and these items
will settle the same day at 5:30 p.m. The
Board believes that because these
processing and posting times provide
institutions with information
sufficiently in advance of the close of
Fedwire, participants in the FedACH
SameDay service will be able to react
appropriately to any debit transfers they
may receive in their Federal Reserve
accounts.
The Board also considered the
possibility of how extensions to the
FedACH service may affect the FedACH
SameDay service. Today, under certain
circumstances, FedACH customers may
request an extension to the transmission
deadline of 2 p.m. for immediate-
settlement transactions. Immediatesettlement transactions include ACH
return items and check-truncation
items. The posting time for these items
is 5 p.m. While customers will not be
able to request an extension to the
FedACH SameDay service, the
transmission deadline for this service
may be minimally affected by
extensions granted for the immediatesettlement transactions. If a customer is
granted an extension, FedACH would
extend both the transmission deadline
to send immediate-settlement return
payments and the transmission deadline
to send same-day forward items past 2
p.m. While this extension would grant
all FedACH customers more time to
send these items, it would not delay the
posting times as FedACH would absorb
the extension by shortening its
processing window. Depository
institutions interested in learning more
detailed information about the FedACH
SameDay service should contact their
local Reserve Bank or visit https://
www.frbservices.org.
2 This service is limited to the origination of nongovernment debit payments and includes only
Accounts Receivable Entry (ARC), Back Office
Conversion Entry (BOC), Point-of-Purchase Entry
(POP), Telephone-Initiated Entry (TEL),
Represented Check Entry (RCK), and InternetInitiated Entry (WEB).
3 The posting time is the time by which a
transaction will be recorded for daylight overdraft
purposes and reflected in an institution’s daylight
overdraft balance. Settlement for the transaction
will occur approximately fifteen to thirty minutes
before the associated posting time and will be
reflected in the institution’s account balance.
Institutions may view their real-time account
balance and daylight overdraft balance in Account
Management Information (AMI), which is a service
offered by the Reserve Banks.
4 Under the current posting times, government
and commercial ACH credit transactions post at
8:30 a.m. Eastern Time and debit transactions post
at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. ACH return transactions
post at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
5 All times associated with the deadlines and
posting rules are Eastern Time.
6 Institutions have the option of returning sameday items by 4:30 p.m. for same-day return
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II. Competitive Impact Analysis
The Board conducts a competitive
impact analysis when it considers a
change, such as introducing posting
rules for a new service. Specifically, the
Board determines whether there would
be a direct and material adverse effect
on the ability of other service providers
to compete with the Federal Reserve
due to differing legal powers or due to
the Federal Reserve’s dominant market
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Posting time
5 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
position deriving from such legal
differences.7 The Board believes that
there are no adverse effects to other
service providers resulting from the new
posting rules. While FedACH is the only
ACH operator that is currently offering
a same-day service, if the other ACH
operator elects to offer a same-day
service, FedACH would support interoperator transfers to enable customers to
benefit from both operators’ same-day
service offerings.
III. Paperwork Reduction Act
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506;
5 CFR 1320 Appendix A.1), the Board
reviewed the new posting rules under
the authority delegated to the Board by
the Office of Management and Budget.
No collections of information pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act are
contained in these new posting rules.
IV. Federal Reserve Policy on Payment
System Risk
The Federal Reserve Policy on
Payment System Risk, Section II.A.
under the subheading ‘‘Procedures for
Measuring Daylight Overdrafts,’’ is
amended with changes as follows in
italics.
Procedures for Measuring Daylight
Overdrafts 8
Post at 5 p.m. Eastern Time:
+/¥ FedACH SameDay service
transactions.
+ Treasury checks, postal money
orders, and EZ–Clear savings bond
redemptions in separately sorted
settlement at 5:30 p.m. If a same-day item is not
returned by the same-day return deadline,
institutions have until the generally applicable
return deadline specified in the National
Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA)
rules to return items.
7 Federal Reserve Regulatory Service, 7–145.2.
8 These posting times do not affect the overdraft
restrictions and overdraft-measurement provisions
for nonbank banks established by the Competitive
Equality Banking Act of 1987 and the Board’s
Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.52).
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deposits; these items must be deposited
by 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
+ Local Federal Reserve Bank checks;
these items must be presented before
3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
+/¥ Immediate-settlement ACH
transactions; these transactions include
ACH return items and check-truncation
items.
Post at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time:
+/¥ FedACH SameDay service return
transactions.
By order of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, acting through the
Director of the Division of Reserve Bank
Operations and Payment Systems under
delegated authority, June 16, 2010.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
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ADMINISTRATION
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
Improvements to the Calexico West
Port of Entry, Calexico, CA
Public Buildings Service, GSA.
ACTION: Notice of Availability and
public hearing for the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The General Services
Administration (GSA) announces the
availability of the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for
Improvements to the Calexico West Port
of Entry, Calexico, California, for public
review and comment. The EIS provides
GSA and its stakeholders an analysis of
the environmental impacts resulting
from ongoing operations as well as
reasonable alternatives for renovation,
replacement, and continued operation
of the Calexico West Port of Entry,
located in south-central California.
DATES: Comments on the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement may
be submitted during the public
comment period, which will commence
with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s publication of the Federal
Register Notice of Availability for this
document and end on August 18, 2010.
Comments may be submitted in writing,
orally, or by electronic mail to the
General Services Administration at the
address, phone number, or e-mail listed
below. Oral or written comments may
also be submitted at public meetings to
be held on June 22 and July 14, 2010,
between 3 and 7 p.m., at the Calexico
City Hall, 608 Heber Avenue, Calexico,
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considered in preparation of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Greg Smith, GSA Regional
Environmental Quality Advisor,
Portfolio Management Division, Capital
Investment Branch (9P2PTC), U.S.
General Services Administration, 880
Front Street, Room 4236, San Diego,
California 92101, (619) 557–6169 or via
e-mail to greg.smith@gsa.gov. Oral and
written comments may also be
submitted at the public hearing
described in the DATES section. Requests
for copies of the Draft Calexico West
Port of Entry EIS or other matters
regarding this environmental review
should be referred to Greg Smith at the
address above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice
of availability will be mailed to all
agencies, organizations, and individuals
who participated in the scoping process
or were identified during the EIS
process. GSA has distributed copies of
the Draft Calexico West Port of Entry
EIS to appropriate Congressional
members and committees, the state of
California, American Indian tribal
governments, local county governments,
other Federal agencies, and other
interested parties who have already
requested copies.
The Draft EIS was prepared pursuant
to the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 (NEPA) [42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.] and the Council on Environmental
Quality NEPA regulations [40 CFR part
1500]. GSA proposes to continue
operating the Calexico West Port of
Entry, which is located in Calexico in
south-central California. GSA has
identified and assessed several design
options for the renovation, replacement,
and continued operation of the Calexico
West Port of Entry. In addition, GSA
analyzed the No Action Alternative in
which GSA would continue the status
quo, that is, operate the port of entry in
its current configuration, with only
minor planned upgrades.
The Draft Calexico Port of Entry EIS
identifies the expected environmental
impacts from facility operations for each
alternative. For each alternative, impact
discussions are presented by resource
area (e.g., land use, geology and soils) or
topic area (e.g., traffic, environmental
justice).
After the public comment period,
which ends August 18, 2010, GSA will
consider the comments received, revise
the Draft EIS, select a preferred
alternative, and issue a Final EIS. GSA
will consider the Final EIS, along with
other economic and technical
considerations, to make a decision on
the appropriate course for
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improvements at the Calexico West Port
of Entry.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted in writing to: Mr. Greg Smith,
Regional Environmental Quality
Advisor, Portfolio Management
Division, Capital Investment Branch
(9P2PTC), U.S. General Services
Administration, 880 Front Street, Room
4236, San Diego, California 92101, or
via e-mail to greg.smith@gsa.gov. Oral
and written comments may also be
submitted at the public meetings
described in the DATES section. Copies
of the Draft Calexico Environmental
Impact Statement may be downloaded
from https://www.gsa.gov/nepalibrary.
Other matters regarding this
environmental review should be
referred to Greg Smith at the address
above.
Dated: June 10, 2010.
Samuel R. Mazzola,
Director, Portfolio Management Division,
Public Building Service, Pacific Rim Region.
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Notice.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug
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DATES: Fax written comments on the
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oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. All
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Payment System Risk Policy; Daylight Overdraft Posting Rules
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
ACTION: Announcement.
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SUMMARY: As part of its Payment System Risk Policy, the Board is
announcing posting rules for a new same-day automated clearing house
(ACH) service. The Reserve Banks' FedACH SameDay service, which will
include certain debit transactions, will be available only to customers
who elect to participate.
DATES: Effective Date: August 2, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Foley, Deputy Associate Director
(202-452-3596), Holly Kirkpatrick, Senior Financial Services Analyst,
Payment System Risk (202-452-2796), or Jennifer Davidson, Senior
Financial Services Analyst, Retail Payments (202-452-2446), Division of
Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System; for users of Telecommunications Device for the
Deaf (``TDD'') only, contact (202) 263-4869.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Reserve Banks will be offering an opt-in, same-day settlement
service for certain ACH debit payments through the FedACH service
effective August 2, 2010.\1\ FedACH customers may opt-in to
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this service by completing a participation agreement. As part of the
agreement, depository institutions may choose the extent of their
participation: They may send only, receive only, or send and receive
same-day debit items. This service will be limited to transactions
arising from consumer checks converted to ACH and consumer debit
transfers initiated over the Internet and phone.\2\
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\1\ For additional information on the FedACH SameDay service,
please contact your Federal Reserve Account Executive or visit
https://www.frbservices.org.
\2\ This service is limited to the origination of non-government
debit payments and includes only Accounts Receivable Entry (ARC),
Back Office Conversion Entry (BOC), Point-of-Purchase Entry (POP),
Telephone-Initiated Entry (TEL), Represented Check Entry (RCK), and
Internet-Initiated Entry (WEB).
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Institutions that choose to use this service should be aware of the
posting times and associated settlement times established for same-day
forward and return transfers, as these times could influence how
participating institutions manage their Federal Reserve accounts,
especially late in the day.\3\ When the Reserve Banks offer new
financial services, the Board determines when the payments will post to
an institution's Federal Reserve account so it may manage and
appropriately fund its account.\4\ The following table outlines the
transmission deadlines and associated posting times for the FedACH
SameDay service.\5\
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\3\ The posting time is the time by which a transaction will be
recorded for daylight overdraft purposes and reflected in an
institution's daylight overdraft balance. Settlement for the
transaction will occur approximately fifteen to thirty minutes
before the associated posting time and will be reflected in the
institution's account balance. Institutions may view their real-time
account balance and daylight overdraft balance in Account Management
Information (AMI), which is a service offered by the Reserve Banks.
\4\ Under the current posting times, government and commercial
ACH credit transactions post at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time and debit
transactions post at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. ACH return transactions
post at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
\5\ All times associated with the deadlines and posting rules
are Eastern Time.
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Transmission
FedACH SameDay opt-in service deadline to FedACH Posting time
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Forward same-day debit 2 p.m............. 5 p.m.
transfers.
Return same-day debit transfers 4:30 p.m.......... 5:30 p.m.
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In considering these transmission deadlines and posting times, the
Board sought to provide receiving institutions with enough time to
process same-day transactions. Depository institutions may send a same-
day forward item to FedACH until 2 p.m. FedACH will process these
forward items and send them to the receiving institutions by
approximately 4 p.m., and these items will settle the same day at 5
p.m. The Board also wanted to ensure that institutions have sufficient
time to manage their Federal Reserve account if they receive a returned
debit transfer late in the day. Depository institutions will have until
4:30 p.m. to return same-day debit items for same-day settlement.\6\
FedACH will process and send the returned items to the originating
institutions by approximately 5 p.m., and these items will settle the
same day at 5:30 p.m. The Board believes that because these processing
and posting times provide institutions with information sufficiently in
advance of the close of Fedwire, participants in the FedACH SameDay
service will be able to react appropriately to any debit transfers they
may receive in their Federal Reserve accounts.
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\6\ Institutions have the option of returning same-day items by
4:30 p.m. for same-day return settlement at 5:30 p.m. If a same-day
item is not returned by the same-day return deadline, institutions
have until the generally applicable return deadline specified in the
National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) rules to
return items.
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The Board also considered the possibility of how extensions to the
FedACH service may affect the FedACH SameDay service. Today, under
certain circumstances, FedACH customers may request an extension to the
transmission deadline of 2 p.m. for immediate-settlement transactions.
Immediate-settlement transactions include ACH return items and check-
truncation items. The posting time for these items is 5 p.m. While
customers will not be able to request an extension to the FedACH
SameDay service, the transmission deadline for this service may be
minimally affected by extensions granted for the immediate-settlement
transactions. If a customer is granted an extension, FedACH would
extend both the transmission deadline to send immediate-settlement
return payments and the transmission deadline to send same-day forward
items past 2 p.m. While this extension would grant all FedACH customers
more time to send these items, it would not delay the posting times as
FedACH would absorb the extension by shortening its processing window.
Depository institutions interested in learning more detailed
information about the FedACH SameDay service should contact their local
Reserve Bank or visit https://www.frbservices.org.
II. Competitive Impact Analysis
The Board conducts a competitive impact analysis when it considers
a change, such as introducing posting rules for a new service.
Specifically, the Board determines whether there would be a direct and
material adverse effect on the ability of other service providers to
compete with the Federal Reserve due to differing legal powers or due
to the Federal Reserve's dominant market position deriving from such
legal differences.\7\ The Board believes that there are no adverse
effects to other service providers resulting from the new posting
rules. While FedACH is the only ACH operator that is currently offering
a same-day service, if the other ACH operator elects to offer a same-
day service, FedACH would support inter-operator transfers to enable
customers to benefit from both operators' same-day service offerings.
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\7\ Federal Reserve Regulatory Service, 7-145.2.
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III. Paperwork Reduction Act
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3506; 5 CFR 1320 Appendix A.1), the Board reviewed the new posting
rules under the authority delegated to the Board by the Office of
Management and Budget. No collections of information pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act are contained in these new posting rules.
IV. Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk
The Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk, Section II.A.
under the subheading ``Procedures for Measuring Daylight Overdrafts,''
is amended with changes as follows in italics.
Procedures for Measuring Daylight Overdrafts \8\
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\8\ These posting times do not affect the overdraft restrictions
and overdraft-measurement provisions for nonbank banks established
by the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 and the Board's
Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.52).
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Post at 5 p.m. Eastern Time:
+/- FedACH SameDay service transactions.
+ Treasury checks, postal money orders, and EZ-Clear savings bond
redemptions in separately sorted
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deposits; these items must be deposited by 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
+ Local Federal Reserve Bank checks; these items must be presented
before 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
+/- Immediate-settlement ACH transactions; these transactions
include ACH return items and check-truncation items.
Post at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time:
+/- FedACH SameDay service return transactions.
By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, acting through the Director of the Division of Reserve Bank
Operations and Payment Systems under delegated authority, June 16,
2010.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2010-15276 Filed 6-23-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P